Avast! Free Antivirus Avast! Home Edition 4.8.1335

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 4.8.1335
File Size:: 29.8 MB
Requirements:: Windows (All Versions)
Language:: en-us
License:: Non-Commercial Freeware
Date Added:: 05 Feb 2009
Publisher:: Avast Software
Homepage:: http://www.avast.com
MD5 Checksum:: 0CA746F431A005CB2114BD6E4F5369B5

* 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
* Internet 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