avast! 4 Home Edition is a free complete ICSA certified antivirus software for home noncommercial use.
avast! obtained VB100% awards in 2002/3 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 - integrates with your Screen Saver to scan 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 are based on iAVS technology and they are available for virus definition file update and for program upgrade. The update files 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). |
