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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: December 11, 2001
- Total Downloads: 37,065,053
- Downloads last week: 447,605
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 11829 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
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 :From the developer: "avast! Home Edition is a special issue of AVAST32 for noncommercial usage. AVAST32 has fully modular architecture - the engine kernel can cooperate with many clients or plugins, as GUI programs, Screen Saver, Explorer scanner, resident protection etc.
AVAST32 is an antivirus set that is able to detect the presence of viruses in computers working under the Windows 9x/Me or Windows NT /2000/XP. The package is able to detect a great quantity of known viruses. It is even able to detect the underlying activities of unknown or selfmodifying viruses, for which there is actually no possible direct detection.
AVAST32 restrains to a minimum one of the great danger of data loss targeting a large majority of computer users. The proper use of an antivirus system and other data security measures (e.g. backup) along with a secure organized access to computers or computer networks ensuring the highest probability of preventing computer infection will diminish to the very least the difficulties with viruses."
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