Avast Green Features

General Topics
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I found this article on green features:

http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/5203/avast-50-free-antivirus-faster-smaller-and-more-features-and-it-wakes-your-computer-at-night/

However, I am not finding this info on your site. Is this a legitimate article? I am very interested in this feature. Is this unique to your product?

2

The article is talking about avast! 5, currently in beta (i.e. it’s not yet announced on our web).

3

Will this feature be available in the Professional version as well?

4

It would be a good guess that feature would be in the Professional version as well as the suite.

5

Are you talking about the wake up feature?

The wording in the article suggests the free version (bold is mine):
(And wasn’t this tested in the free beta?)

...Steckler told Infosecurity that avast! has added ‘green features’ such as the ability of the anti-virus scanner to “wake up the computer, do its scan and put the computer back to sleep”.

Other new features in the free avast! 5 anti-virus, include behavioural detection. The anti-rootkit has been upgraded to real-time, so the security application is constantly watching for rootkit behaviour…

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WinPatrol PLUS 

Features                                                      ToGo   Free  PLUS 
Access to WinPatrol PLUS Knowledgebase (24/7)                w/PLUS   No   Yes 
Real-time Infiltration Detection                               No     No   Yes 
Increased PLUS Performance                                     No     No   Yes 
Automatically respond and/hide specific alerts (NEW!)          No     No   Yes

http://www.winpatrol.com/compare.html