Kaspersky Lab (http://wwwavp.ru), a leading developer of antiviral software, announced the beta version of its AntiViral Toolkit Pro (AVP) for Linux operating system.

The company highlights the fact that during the past few years Linux gained popularity not only among a limited number of specialists but also among a broad community of users. Yet, up to recently, this operating system lacked a complete system for antiviral protection.

AVP for Linux is based on the existing core, which is used in the other AVP products. The core is also licensed for use in antiviral products of some other vendors, including Data Fellows (Finland), G-Data (Germany), and Vintage Solutions (Japan).

The new tool provides protection against more than 26,000 of known viruses and malicious codes, including polymorphic viruses, stealth viruses, Trojan horses, HTML- and macroviruses. The product supports the most popular archive formats, antiviral e-mail filtering, new advanced algorithm for euristic analysis, extended scanning mode.

Source: InfoArt News Agency

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