Avast Home Edition
Avast! Home Edition is the free antivirus for home noncommercial use - scans for viruses worms and Trojans

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 and under Windows 2000 Advanced Server

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
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

Protect your system and valuable data against computer viruses with Avast! Home Edition

Our true incremental updates are based on iAVS technology and they are available for virus definition file update and for program upgrade
You can download and install updates by simple clicking on the iAVS icon it can be checked and done automatically when you are On-line

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 They are automatically downloaded installed and loaded to avast! without restart or logoff

Requirements

For a computer with Windows 95/98/Me PC 486 32 MB RAM 50 MB of free hard disk space
For a computer with Windows NT 40 PC 486 32 MB RAM 50 MB of free hard disk space Service Pack 3 or higher installed
For a computer with Windows 2000/XP PC Pentium 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended) 50 MB of free hard disk space
For a computer with Windows Vista PC Pentium 4 512 MB RAM 50 MB of free hard disk space
The program itself requires 20 MB the rest is reserved for the virus recovery database file and its index [VRDB also known as the integrity database from the previous version]
A functional MS Internet Explorer 4 or higher is required for the program to work


Limitations

60 days trial evaluation


What's New in This Release

infrastructure changes in the scanning engine bringing higher detection rates
fixed a bug that was sometimes causing crash of the avast screensaver during its initialization
improved handling of corrupted files in the SIS and CAB unpackers
Standard Shield fixed a minor memory leak in the Vista (and Vista only) driver
Standard Shield improved the move to chest command in Vista
Standard Shield the default scan exceptions are no valid for read/write access only (no execute)
added more installer unpackers
added more Win32 executable unpackers (Enigma etc)
for NTLM proxy authorization (via ISA Server) it is now possible to specify the account under which the avast service will perform the update
added Arabic language pack