avast! 4 Home Edition is a free complete ICSA certified antivirus software for home noncommercial use.
avast! obtained VB100% awards in 2002/4 Virus Bulletin comparative reviews under Windows.
avast! Home Edition includes the following components:
- On Demand Scanner - with Skinnable Simple Interface - just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button.
- On Access Scanner - resident scanning of all files being opened, read and written and behavior blocker monitoring dangerous actions of viruses.
- E-mail scanner easily integrates with most mail clients
and it checks both incoming and outgoing mails, it provides heuristic
analysis of mail content to protect against new Worms.
- Network Shield - scans traffic for malicious content - lightweight Firewall.
- Resident protection for IM programs (e.g. MSN Messenger, ICQ) and P2P programs (e.g. Kazaa, DirectConnect).
- Boot Time Scanner - scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does (on NT/2000/XP only).
- Explorer Scanner - right click on the object allows you to scan it.
- Screen Saver Scanner - scans PC during your coffee breaks.
- Virus Chest - safety isolated folder to store infected, suspicious and even some system files - to restore them.
True incremental updates of size under 100 KB are available
at least twice a week and within couple of hours in the case of
emergency of new virus. avast! automatically checks for new updates -
downloads, installs and loads them without restart or logoff. Program
upgrades are available time to time, they are incremental too (about
300 KB).
avast! 4 Home is available in English, French, German, Italian,
Japaneese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and other languages -
check http://www.avast.com/eng/down_home.html to download avast! in
your language.
You will download a 60 days fully functional demo. You will obtain the
FREE license epro by E-mail after the registration at
http://www.avast.com/i_kat_207.php?lang=ENG.
What's New in version 4.8.1227:
- improvements in some unpackers (WinExec, SFX CAB, LHARC, ZOO)
- check for critical system files is now performed even in the on-access scanner (as a prevention of false positives)
- command line scanner (ashCmd.exe): fixed displaying of directory count
- Windows Vista: during a scan of system drive, duplicate entries are now handled correctly (symlinks)
- Explorer extension process (ashQuick.exe) now ends immediately after aborting a scan
- fixed a bug in SMTP alerts (adding of random characters to the address)
- verification of digital signatures now fixed even for the on-access scanner (Windows Vista and Windows XP x64)
- fixed the setting to disable checking of infected files during on-demand scans
- Enhanced UI: it is no longer possible to delete a default task by using the Delete epro
- solved a synchronization problem that could potentially lead even to a hang of an avast component (e.g. the Outlook plugin)
- Windows Vista SP1: solved an issue in the kernel driver aswSP.sys (problems during system shutdown)
- added a workaround to a compatibility problem with NComputing NCT
- Standard Shield: improved handling of exceptions
- improvements in the rootkit submission system
- mail scanner: fixes in IMAP handler (Thunderbird)
Size: 25.18MB
Publisher: Visit Website
Release Date: 2008-07-24
Submit Date: 2008-07-24
OS: Win 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP
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