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avast! Home - Free antivirus Review

Free antivirus software for non-commercial home use (complete desktop security)


Version:
4.8.1356
Released:
25, September 2009
License:
Freeware
Size:
300 Kb
Rating:
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Product Info

avast! Home is a free and complete ICSA certified antivirus, with Checkmark certified anti-spyware, and cutting edge GMER anti-rootkit software for non-commercial home use.
avast! continues to achieve Virus Bulletin VB100% awards, with an uninterrupted record of wins for over two years, which not all competitors can claim.

avast! Home includes the following components:

On Demand Scanner - with Skinnable Simple Interface - just select what you want to scan, in which way, and press the Play button.

On-Access Scanner - with special providers to protect:
most available E-mail clients,
Instant Messaging - ICQ, Miranda etc.,
Network traffic - Intrusion Setection,
P2P protection for Kazza, BitTorrent etc.,
Web shield - monitors and filter all HTTPtraffic,
NNTP Scanner - scans all Usenet Newsgroup traffic
and of course all operations on PC files.

avast! can scan inside the huge number of different packers including ZIP, ARJ, RAR etc. even Outlook Express .dbx files.

Boot-Time Scanner - scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does (on NT/2000/XP only).
Screen Saver Scanner - scans PC during your coffee breaks.
Virus Chest - safe, isolated folder to store infected, suspicious and even some system files - to restore them.

True incremental updates mean that, unlike some other antivirus solutions, automatic updates are small and therefore quick to download - and most updates never require a system restart: so just set the program to automatically keep you up-to-date, and the it just works.

avast! Home is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japaneese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish... altogether around 30 languages - check avast webiote to download avast! in your language.
You will download a 60 days fully functional demo. You can obtain a FREE license key by E-mail after the registration at avast website.

What's new in current version
improved Standard Shield, improvements in some unpackers

Requirements
Minimum of 32MB (64MB to 128MB pref) of RAM and 486 class processor with 50MB free hard drive space

Please contact avast! Home - Free antivirus publisher, ALWIL Software if you have questions or issues regarding this product.
ESET NOD32 Antivirus 3.0 scan report
Scanned files: 1
Threats detected: 0
Time: 0s
Clean and Safe Certified
Download version 4.8.1356
was tested on www.softarea51.com
with ESET NOD32 Antivirus
on 5, November 2009
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 scan report
Scanned files: 3
Threats detected: 0
Time: 18s
Clean and Safe Certified
Download version 4.8.1356
was tested on www.softarea51.com
with Kaspersky Anti-Virus
on 5, November 2009
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