Free AntiVirus software – avast
avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for non-commercial & home use only. It’s absolutely FREE !!! There are no Terms & Conditions. This software is rated ***** (5 Star) by most of the forums.
avast! 4 Home Edition
Features:
- Avast Home Edition is a complete ICSA & Checkmark certified antivirus, Checkmark certified anti-spyware & anti-rootkit package.
- 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
Download.com Review:
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.
Download the software from here
Click here for Installation Instructions and User Guide
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avast! Home edition is the antivirus I recommend to everybody looking for free pc security shield. It’s much lighter on resources than Avira and AVG (I’m using it currently on Pentium III – who remembers those old boxes now?), is skinnable (not of much importance, but some freaks are paranoid about customizing everything they click on) and updates itself every day. Very unobtrusive software unless you visit suspicious websites – then avast! will block it from loading. Works smoothly together with SUPERAntiSpyware (I got a lifetime license from the developers as a gift so why not try this app out).
Some of the free antivirus softwares are starting to struggle with providing effective virus protection as of now (Autumn 2009). Also, even the paid softwar is struggling with detecting/preventing rootkit infections. It seems like the Antivirus companies are lagging a bit behind the hackers at this point in time…
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