Description: Free antivirus - avast! 4 Home Edition
avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users and non-commercial use. Both of these conditions should be met! Our company offers the Home Edition free of charge, since, in our opinion, it is possible to avoid global virus spreading by efficient prevention; however, many users are not able to or do not want to pay for antivirus software. This page will show you the most important features of this program.
Institutions (even non-commercial ones) are not allowed to use avast! Home Edition. However, ALWIL Software provides the full line of avast! antivirus products at special discount prices for non-profit, charity, educational and government institutions.
New in version 4.8.1335:
• improvements in some unpackers (WinExec, Installer, ZIP)
• improved memory scan, especially under 64-bit operating systems
• fixed a possible deadlock condition when copying system files from some removable media
• fixed a possible problem with access rights when deleting infected files on reboot
• Web Shield: minor stability fixes
I• nternet Mail: smtp.gmail.com and smtp.live.com now ignored on port 25 (as these are SSL only)
• improved healing of some infected files
• various fixes and improvements in the scanning engine
• Web Shield now scans pages compressed with the "deflate" algorithm
• performance optimization of Standard Shield under Windows Vista
• improvements in the automatic sample submission system
• improvements in the URL blocker
