Avast! Home Edition 4.8.1296

Avast! Home Edition represents the best antivirus protection available and is available free of charge for non-commercial, home use. It is designed to protect your valuable data and programs, as well as keep itself up-to-date. It also comes with the kind of built-in features that many vendors charge for additionally, or don't include at all such as anti-spyware, anti-rootkit and strong self-protection.

Avast! is aimed at preventing several types of computer threats, including those that are not technically computer viruses such as spyware and even rogue anti-spyware, and can also make a virus Recovery DataBase which is used to recover files when they are infected. The program is available with text and voice translations for 27 languages.

Features of Avast! Home Edition:

- Anti-spyware built-in. Certified by West Coast Lab's Checkmark process, avast! has full anti-spyware capabilities built-in, to make your protection even more complete.
- Web Shield. Web Shield is a unique feature of avast! that enables it to monitor and filter all HTTP traffic coming from the Web sites on the Internet.
- Anti-rootkit built-in. Based on the class-leading GMER technology, avast! can now scan your live system for rootkit infections; no boots disks are required.
- Strong self-protection. To help keep your protection working, avast! has best-in-class strong self-protection built in.
- Integrated Virus Cleaner. Avast! includes the Virus Cleaner, a tool designed for a complete removal of most common infections from already-infected computers.
- Resident protection. avast! Home Edition contains resident protection of the computer file system and a resident module for e-mails and news.
- Internationalization.
- Network Shield. The Network Shield is only available on NT-based systems (Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista).

Changes in latest version:

Minor improvements in some unpackers. Improvements in the false positive submission system. Speed optimization in kernel-mode components. XML scan reports now generated in UTF-8 format (allow for non-Latin characters).

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