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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: September 25, 2009
- Total Downloads: 64,006,504
- Downloads last week: 741,971
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11839 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on September 23, 2008
This impressive software provides the same steadfast protection of well-known antivirus programs, yet it's surprisingly free.
Avast Home Edition guards your PC and the network with multiple shields that scan executables and files. You can select parameters for scanning, and even choose wildcards to exclude specific file types. You can adjust the sensitivity level for the program's detectors when it comes to scanning downloaded files, instant messages, e-mails, and a host of P2Ps. Its efficient interface opens up window after window to tweak its settings to your liking, for novice to advanced level protection.
Though it took quite some time to run, we're impressed with this application's boot-time antivirus scan. Fortunately, if you're in a pinch you can bypass it. If malicious contents are detected, Avast comes to the rescue with handy virus cleanup tools. Some decent PC controls are even handed out here. You can block certain URLs and file operations, such as writing to files or even renaming, deleting or formatting them.
With immediate real-time protection, clockwork updates, and much more, this free software is highly regarded in our book.
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Publisher's description
From Alwil Software :Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus is a complete ICSA & Checkmark certified antivirus, Checkmark certified anti-spyware & anti-rootkit package. Avast 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, special providers to protect the most of available e-mail clients; Instant messaging--ICQ, Miranda; Network traffic--intrusion detection, lightweight firewall; P2P protection for Kazaa, BitTorrent; Web shield--monitors and filters all HTTP traffic; NNTP scanner--scans all Usenet Newsgroup traffic and all operations with files on PC; Boot time scanner--scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.8.1356 has solved a memory leak in the GZIP unpacker and solved vulnerabilities in AavmKer4.sys, aswMon2.sys and ashWsFtr.dll.
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User reviews of Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus 4.8.1356
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 11839 votes
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Version: Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus 4.8.1356
"I only trust Avast! No One Else!"
Pros: Great protection for being free. Being free it is hard to believe they give you protection that compares to the paid versions such as norton etc. I've been using this for awhile and it has done a great job in providing me protection.
Cons: I love this program and has done a great job with no problems what soever.
Summary: I have tried many other free products such as avira, comodo anti-virus etc and always go back to Avast!. It has always stood by me and protected my system from infections and I wouldn't give this up for anything else. With Avast!, Comodo Firewall, M... read more >>
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Version: Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus 4.8.1356
"efficient and dependable protection 24/7"
Pros: comprehensive and dependable protection
Cons: none, so far
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Version: Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus 4.8.1356
Pros: Perfectly simple, 100% effective.
Cons: What's not to like?
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus 4.8.1356
"Avast: The best free antivirus I've used"
Pros: 1. Security. 2. Stability. 3. Flexibility. 4. Automatic update
Cons: Does not offer automatic ignore the repetition of the same file referred as infected.
Summary: As a computerholic I am managing a lot of software to many computers (belonging to more than 5 persons) for more than 20 years. In the time I was trying for months to clear a heavy infected laptop with reader_s.exe (thousands of virut virus infectio... read more >>
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus 4.8.1356
Pros: Very nice anti-virus with lots of nice features. One of the best I've used!
Cons: I Found the interface very confusing, but i managed to get used to it!
Summary: If you can get used to the interface this will be the perfect anti-virus for you! =)
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