Welcome to ALWIL Antivirus version 4

Dear customer, we congratulate you on installing the ALWIL Antivirus package, one of the best programs in its category. We hope that you will be satisfied with our product and that you will enjoy the comfort of working with this program.

ALWIL Antivirus is a package of applications that aim to protect your computer from a possible virus infection. If you use it correctly, periodically, and in coordination with other programs such as data backup utilities, it should ensure that you radically reduce the risk of your computer being infected by a virus, and thus avoid losing your private data.

This documentation has been worked out in such a way that the user will be continually made familiar with the properties and functions of the whole program, as well as properties and functions of its individual parts. We anticipate sufficient knowledge of basic terms and common skills related to the environment of the Windows operating system. Without the basic background, some parts of the help may be rather incomprehensible. If you are not familiar with terms such as folder, file, window, or you are not sure how to activate a window or press a button, we recommend you to consult the corresponding user's manual or help of the operating system.

ALWIL Antivirus contains all the properties that you would expect in a professional antivirus program. It has a Simple User Interface, suitable for beginners and inexperienced users; it also has an Enhanced Interface that gives the user access to any possible setting and full control of ALWIL Antivirus. Of course, ALWIL Antivirus includes a resident protection part that watches any possibly dangerous operations performed during the daily work on the computer, such as running applications, therefore effectively avoiding virus infection. ALWIL Antivirus is able to check both incoming and outgoing e-mail messages, processed by most of today's e-mail clients. There is a command-line interface for ALWIL Antivirus, too.

For home users running ALWIL Antivirus on their computer that is not used for commercial purposes, ALWIL Antivirus Home version is free. Fully functional ALWIL Antivirus Professional version must be paid for. The difference between Home and Professional version is described on the page ALWIL Antivirus 4 Home.