avast! 4 Home Edition Overview
avast! 4 Home Edition is a free and complete ICSA certified antivirus 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 Edition 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. ...
Download NOW! setupeng.exe (Size: 29.10 MB) |
Publisher Website: | AVAST Software s.r.o. |
Category: | Antivirus |
License: | freeware ($0) |
Operating Systems: | Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT 4.x, Windows2000, WinXP, Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows |
Filename: | setupeng.exe |
Size: | 29.10 MB |
MD5 Checksum: | b632cda1cb2893f7c992ae37b238cac3 |
Last Updated: | 26 Aug 2009 |
Screenshot: | avast! 4 Home Edition 4.8.1351 Screenshot |
Full Description: avast! 4 Home Edition is a free and complete ICSA certified antivirus 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 Edition 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! 4 Home is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japaneese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish... altogether around 30 languages - check http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html 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 http://www.avast.com/eng/home-registration.php.
Changelog
We don't have yet a changelog for this software.
Why to stay up-to-date?
Most of the time having the latest version of a software is a good thing. Usually software updates add new features, which makes the software more usefull. Also with every update a software becomes more secure and more stable by fixing bugs & vulnerabilities from previous versions.We offer you 3 options in order to stay up-to-date with your software list:
1. Using Update Notifier (recommended) - AUTOMATIC PROCESS
The Update Notifier is a FREE small utility that scans your computer for installed software and displays a list of updates.
2. Register on the website and use the Watch List Option - MANUAL PROCESS
Signup on the website for free and use Watch List option (a collection of software, made by you, where you can see the current version or download it.
3. By Email - SEMI-AUTOMATIC PROCESS
Complete the following form and we'll send you an email, every time a new version of avast! 4 Home Edition is launched.
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