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Monday, 05 December 2005

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.

It contains an on-demand scanner with two interfaces (simple for novices and advanced for experienced users), an on-access scanner with Standard Shield (which protects against execution and opening malware programs) and an embedded e-mail scanner which scans incoming and outgoing email messages. avast! Home integrates with the Windows Explorer right click menu and also includes a special screen saver which is able to scan your system while your computer is not in use. Updates are incremental and frequently made available for manual or scheduled download.

 

Type: Freeware

Size: 9.5 MB

Version: 4.6.739

Features:

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.

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