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.
- higher performance of the scanning engine (especially on new CPUs) and faster start of the avast! system service on OS boot
- improved support for Windows Vista (added support for NTFS transactions (also known as TxF) etc.)
- improved detection of full-screen applications
- fixed a bug related to the demo licence not being installed during silent installs
- improved compatibility with Windows offline folders
- more improvements in executable unpackers
- minor fixes in the ZIP unpacker
- fixed Runtime error R6034 messages when Mozilla Thunderbird version 3.0 is installed
- suppressed double scans when the user selected a local disk scan plus a folder scan (with the folder residing on the local disk)
- added Catalan language module