Avast! Free Antivirus Avast! Home Edition 4.6.691
Avast Software - (Non-Commercial Freeware)
Avast! Free Antivirus protects the computer from malicious programs for free.
Avast! Free Antivirus is one of the most used free security software solutions. It is an effective tool for security benefit, in addition to its anti-virus functionality, as well as a rootkit antispyware engine.
The software offers a new and fluid modern interface as well as a plugin for Do Not Track browser indicating the presence of malware and phishing sites. It only remains to introduce Rescue Disk, the new module to create disk image of the Avast! installation on removable media. With its help, it is possible to always clean and restore the PC in case of crashing.
Avast! is continuously updating virus database being in permanent connection with the laboratory (in the cloud), which thus provides an immediate response to the new virus signatures.
Avast! Free Antivirus provides protection in real time on the actions performed by the user navigation, opening documents, running programs, e- mails, instant messaging and peer pairs clients.
- Title:
- Avast! Free Antivirus Avast! Home Edition 4.6.691
- File Size:
- 8.9 MB
- Requirements:
- Windows 9x / 2000 / XP / XP64
- Language:
- en-us
- License:
- Non-Commercial Freeware
- Date Added:
- 08 Jul 2005
- Publisher:
- Avast Software
- Homepage:
- http://www.avast.com
- MD5 Checksum:
- Not calculated
v4.6.763:
- enhanced support for UU-coded files
- avast! Screensaver should now work even under Windows x64 (with 64-bit screensavers)
- an attempt to solve problems related to computer freezing during shutdown (especially on Windows x64 machines with nForce4 chipset)
- scheduled scan progress can now be tracked and controlled by a new tray icon (Professional Edition)
- P2P Shield: added support for BitPump
- improved interaction of Standard Shield with other provider (better definition of scan exceptions)
- improved scanning speed of ZIP archives
- added an "unpacker" for OLE archives (extracts and scans e.g. binary files embedded in MS Office documents)
- Outlook plugin now works correctly even in the beta version of new MS Office 12
- Web Shield: minor improvements related to the handling of log files
- added Chinese language versions (both Simplified and Traditional)
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