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11/05
2007

avast! Home Edition

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Product Description

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 XP Pro.

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.
  • Resident protection for IM programs (MSN Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, mIRC, Trillian) and P2P programs (Kazaa, KazaaLite, DirectConnect, DC++, WinMX etc.).
  • 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.

More: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

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2 Comments »

  1. 1
    SecurityExpert says:

    Avast is one of the very few really antivirus programs that offer real-time protection for home PC security. Czech guys did a great job! AVG and Avira seem to be the only competitors. Finding a full-featured free antivirus is tough these days, most of the so-called “free” programs are either time-limited trials, or simply on-demand scanners without real-time monitoring. To my mind, avast! has the best interface of all free AV’s available for personal PC security.

  2. 2
    רשלנות says:

    Very straightforward and easy to use. I can’t think of anything I don’t like.

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