Avast! Antivirus 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.

Features of «Avast! Free Antivirus» :

- Web Shield. Web Shield is a unique feature of avast! that enables it to monitor and filter all HTTP traffic coming from the Web sites on the Internet.
- Anti-rootkit built-in. Based on the class-leading GMER technology, avast! can now scan your live system for rootkit infections; no boots disks are required.
- Strong self-protection. To help keep your protection working, avast! has best-in-class strong self-protection built in.
- Integrated Virus Cleaner. Avast! includes the Virus Cleaner, a tool designed for a complete removal of most common infections from already-infected computers.
- Resident protection. avast! Home Edition contains resident protection of the computer file system and a resident module for e-mails and news.
- Internationalization.
- Network Shield. The Network Shield is only available on NT-based systems (Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista).

What's New in «Avast! Free Antivirus 5» :

Improvements in the malware URL blockers. Solved a vulnerability in aswRdr.sys.