Avast! Home Edition is completely free certified antivirus software for home and noncommercial use. Avast! antivirus Home Edition provides continuous protection of your precious data disks and programs by automatically updating itself. The process is easy: simply install and forget. Avast! 4 Home Edition also comes along with anti-spyware & anti-rootkit protection for Windows, which are available only in the paid versions of many antivirus products on the market today.
Avast! Home Edition Features:
* Scanner On Demand - with Skinnable Simple Interface - just select what you want to scan and press the Play button.
* Scanner
On Access - You can live monitor all your computer actions and connections, preventing you from getting infected with viruses such as: mallware, spyware or adware.
* E-mail Shield easily integrated with the most common mail clients such as Outlook, checking both incoming and outgoing e-mails, completely analyzes the mail content in order to protect you against new Worms.
* Network Scanner - scans your computer activity and traffic for malicious content - with lightweight Firewall.
* Resident protection Shield is used mostly for IM programs such as MSN Messenger, ICQ or Yahoo Messenger, also a good activity for P2P programs like Kazaa, DirectConnect, DC++, Shareaza, BearShare and others.
* Boot Time Scanning - scans all your disks in the same time and the same way as Windows CHKDSK does, this is available only for NT/2000/XP users.
* Explorer Protector - A simple right click on an object or folder, allows you to scan it for viruses and threats.
* Scanner like a Screen Saver - Automatically scans your PC during your coffee breaks.
* Virus Quarantine - This is a safety isolated folder that stores and keeps all infected, suspicious and even some threatening system files - in order to restore them at their original situation.
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). Updates with size under 100 KB are available on at least twice a week and within couple of hours only in the case of emergency situations, like new virus, or threats.
Avast! 4 Home is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japaneese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and also other languages. (You should check they're website for other languages than English,
here.)
