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- Price: Free; requires e-mail registration after 60 days
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7/NT
- Date added: November 25, 2009
- Total Downloads: 69,696,493
- Downloads last week: 675,552
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A newer version of Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 13199 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, certified anti-spyware and anti-rootkit package. Avast includes the following components: an on-demand scanner with skinnable simple interface; an on-access scanner with special providers to protect most commonly available e-mail clients; instant-messaging intrusion detection with a lightweight firewall; P2P protection; a Web shield that monitors and filters all HTTP traffic; an NNTP scanner that scans all Usenet Newsgroup traffic and all operations with files on PC; and a boot-time scanner that scans disks in the same way and in the same time as the Windows Chkdsk application does.
CNET Editor's Note: Avast Antivirus Home Edition is free to use but requires e-mail registration before the end of the initial 60-day trial period. Following the registration you will receive by e-mail a license key valid for a period of 1 year.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.8.1367 includes improvements in the malware URL blockers and solved a vulnerability in aswRdr.sys.
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User reviews of Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus 4.8.1368
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 13199 votes
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Version: Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus 4.8.1368
"An excellent product. Very user friendly."
Pros: I am delighted with voice database updates.
Cons: I think it's a great product.
Summary: Excellent product.
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Version: Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus 4.8.1368
"In the short time I've had Avast it's been just great."
Pros: It's been doing everything its required to do.
Cons: I have no dislikes about it so far.
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Version: Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus 4.8.1368
"so far so good, no problems."
Pros: mateince free
Cons: cant think of one.
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Version: Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus 4.8.1368
Pros: I have used other free anti virus sofware such as AVG , Avira,Comodor.But I have realised that Avast is the best.It consumes less memory space compaired to other software
Cons: Everything all right
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Version: Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus 4.8.1368
Pros: ik heb nog nooit zo'n goed en simpel mee te werken progamma gehad, als dat van Avast Home Edition.......echt , ik ben zeer tevreden
Cons: sorry voor jullie , maar ik kan echt niks bedenken , had een keer een trojaans paard, maar daar was Avast mijn progamma met een stem , geweldig , bedankt
Summary: ik zou zeggen , lees u a.u.b. wat ik hier boven heb geschreven, ik hoop dat ik u naar alle tevredenheid heb kunnen informeren
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