avast! Home - Free antivirus 4.8.1356

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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.
Type : Freeware » EULA
OS Support : Windows All + Vista
Date stamp / Size : Dec, 1. 2006 / 300 kBytes
Asked : Minimum of 32MB (64MB to 128MB pref) of RAM and 486 class processor with 50MB free hard drive space
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Update history of avast! Home - Free antivirus
v4.8.1356 (November, 12. 2009)
improved Standard Shield, improvements in some unpackers
v4.8.1335 (March, 1. 2009)
anti-spyware, anti-rootkit, new strong-self protection features added, plus: new scanner progress, Aavmker4.sys vulnerability fixed, improved boot time scanner, malicious URL blocker
v4.8.1296 (December, 27. 2008)
anti-spyware, anti-rootkit, new strong-self protection features added, plus: new scanner progress, Aavmker4.sys vulnerability fixed, improved boot time scanner, malicious URL blocker
v4.8.11 (April, 12. 2008)
anti-spyware, anti-rootkit, new strong-self protection features added, plus: new scanner progress, Aavmker4.sys vulnerability fixed, improved boot time scanner
v4.7.1098 (December, 10. 2007)
Various unpacker fixes and a TAR unpacker vulnerability fixed, Outlook plugin speed improvement, improved Windows Vista support of Internet Mail provider, optimized updater, removed mail heuristics false alarm (TNEF attachments)
v4.7.1043 (October, 24. 2007)
Boot time exception error bug fixed, Inno Setup unpacker support added, Speed optimization improved, Web Shield improved to include POST data, Windows Vista support improved
v4.7.1001 (July, 16. 2007)
Armadilo unpacker support added, East Asian name support improved, mailscanner fix for thunderbird on IMAP, compatibility with Spyware Doctor fix added, IE Script Blocker fix added, better repair added
v4.7.892 (May, 22. 2007)
Improved unpacker support, new shields added and compatibility with Windows Vista
Distribution permissions for avast! Home - Free antivirus
avast! antivirus is only available for distribution under license from ALWIL Software a.s. or an authorized reseller.
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