Free or Paid version?

IS AVAST! FREE ANTIVIRUS 5.0 HANDICAPPED SOMEHOW?

• The SILENT FIREWALL is a feature which enables you to control incoming and outgoing traffic from your computer. Protection is based on combined heuristic or behavioural analysis and a whitelist of known safe network applications. For incoming traffic, the firewall has a choice of three settings depending on the type of connection. The silent firewall is missing in both avast! Free Antivirus 5.0 and avast! Pro Antivirus 5.0 but present in avast! Internet Security 5.0

• The comprehensive ANTISPAM AND FRAUDULENT MESSAGE FILTER works as a plug-in to Microsoft Outlook and a generic POP3/IMAP4 proxy for other mail clients. This feature is missing in both avast! Free antivirus 5.0 and avast! Pro Antivirus 5.0 but present in avast! Internet Security 5.0

• AVAST! SANDBOX enables potentially exploitable programs such as web browsers and/or suspicious executables to be run in a safe, virtual environment called the avast! Sandbox. This is the only sandbox option for both 32 and 64 bit platform in the market. This feature is missing in avast! Free antivirus 5.0 but present in both avast! Pro Antivirus 5.0 and avast! Internet Security 5.0

• The COMMAND LINE SCANNER which enables you to run a scan directly from the command line is missing from avast! Free antivirus but present in both avast! Pro antivirus 5.0 and avast! Internet Security 5.0

• The SCRIPT SHIELD is a feature which detects malicious scripts hidden in internet pages and prevents them from running and hijacking or potentially causing damage to your computer (works on Internet Explorer and on 32 bit Windows Operating System versions only). This feature is missing in avast! Free antivirus 5.0 but present in both avast! Pro Antivirus 5.0 and avast! Internet Security 5.0

• While avast! Free antivirus 5.0 cannot be legally installed by companies and institutions, avast! Pro Antivirus 5.0 and avast! Internet Security 5.0 can