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¤ avast! PDA Edition (WinCE/Palm)
avast! PDA Edition is designed to protect pocket
devices (PDAs) from viruses. The importance of PDAs is growing
every day and it is quite likely that these devices will
soon become a target for new virus attacks. With such devices
having better and better connectivity, such an attack is
getting easier to realize.
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Scanning kernel
We have developed a special "pocket version"
of the scanning kernel, with the following features:
» Small
size and memory requirements
» High
speed, and so a quick response, even on slower CPUs
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A typical scan of the whole pocket device (with
16-128MB of memory) only takes a few seconds, therefore
it's possible to run it on a regular basis.
Specific detection capabilities: avast! PDA Edition detects
only viruses (or any other malicious code) written for the
target environment (code capable of running on the given
OS). This guarantees a small size of the antivirus deployment.
Even though it would be possible to detect all known viruses,
even on a PDA, this would tend to make a large deployment
footprint on a small device, when the purpose of the antivirus
product is to protect the pocket device primarily; in other
words, memory requirements, size and speed are more important
here than the detection of viruses for other platforms.
Reports & logs
avast! PDA Edition can create report files
with a detailed description of the scanning process: what
was scanned, what was the result, etc. This can be important
for later reference, or just to make sure that all the requested
files were scanned. avast! PDA Edition features an integrated
log viewer (note: not included in the SmartPhone edition,
to minimize the product size).
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Updates
An important part of any antivirus system
is the capability to quickly react to new infections
(updates of the virus database). avast! PDA Edition
features a special updater able to download and install
new updates. To download the updates, avast! PDA Edition
is able to use all standard means of data transfer
for mobile devices (GPRS, for example), thus, it is
fully integrated into the "pocket environment".
The size of transferred data is usually just a couple
of hundreds of bytes, so the (often quite slow) communication
lines are not stressed in any way. Updating via ActiveSync
is also supported.
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Product sizes
avast! PDA Edition is optimized for size and speed. As
a result, avast! PDA Edition for Palm OS is approximately
30KB; avast! PDA Edition for Windows CE is about 200KB.
The virus database currently does not exceed 1kB.
Installation
Installation is performed from a PC, using standard tools
for computer-PDA synchronization (ActiveSync, in most cases).
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