Avast! Free Antivirus Avast! Home Edition 4.7.817

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 interfaceÂ 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 4.7.817
File Size:: 10.5 MB
Requirements:: Windows 9x / 2000 / XP / XP64
Language:: en-us
License:: Non-Commercial Freeware
Date Added:: 19 Apr 2006
Publisher:: Avast Software
Homepage:: http://www.avast.com
MD5 Checksum:: D82779FEE21E465624DE4758D4752CA1

Standard Shield: by default, system DLLs are not scanned anymore (speed optimization)

further improved Standard Shield speed under Windows XP (generally, less files are scanned)

Standard Shield: improved compatibility with Microsoft Office (particularly, saving of Excel documents on network shares)

mail scanner now doesn't show Timeout Expired messages; the program was modified so that the respective timeout can be controlled by the mail client itself

mail scanner: solved problem with the mail client reporting expired timeouts when sending larger emails via slow connectections

mail scanner: fixed problem with delays during IP address reverse-lookup

mail scanner: fixed displaying of tray icon

P2P Shield: added support for Winny2 and Google Talk

Web Shield: improved compatibility with Win9x

transition to new data storage - avast does not need the ODBC/Jet drivers anymore and should therefore work better even under older versions of Windows (95/98/ME, NT4)

fixed a bug in the Script Blocker module that was causing conflicts with some programs under non-English Windows (e.g. the German invoice system Lexware)

added support for additional executable packers (e.g. MoleBox)

fixed a bug that was sometimes causing very slow scanning of CAB archives

boot-time scanner: added support for additional archives (GZ, BZIP2, TAR, LHARC, ZOO)

improved handling of infected files with exotic filenames

solved a problem with setting of incorrect access rights to the avast executable files

removed a limit of maximal length of winpopup alerts (used to be 128 characters)

Enhanced User Interface: infected items are now marked as red

implemented new method of deleting of locked infected files (now using the boot-time scanner technology)

this new version is now compatible with the Windows Disk Protection feature from Microsoft Shared Computing Toolkit.

Avast should now work flawlessly with Windows Vista beta 2 and higher (Vista beta 2 will be released in the first half of May, i.e. in about 3 weeks); unfortunately, in beta1 + CTP builds