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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.
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Do not use Kaspersky, Norton, Nod 32, Bitdefender, AVG etc. use Avast and you will have a pc that is malware free and a program which is reliable and just works. The program has a lot of features which many other lacks, features which are essential in the fight against malware. I have been in contact with the company behind Avast named Alwil and they have informed me that since version 4.8 Avast is equipped with heuristics. They are planning to announce this together with other new features related to heuristics in the third quarter of 2009.
Avast is a protective fortress with all its shields and will protect your pc against viruses, spyware, adware, rootkits and other malware. I have used Avast for nearly four years in different computers and it always work reliably and have kept them free from viruses.
Avast has a lot of cool skins to choose from. It is not a dull anti-virus program like the rest.
It is also free!
Note: Equipped with heuristic means that the program has a capability to catch unknown viruses.
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Avast! Home Edition is really a very good antivirus software. While using Avast for a year, I think, I have regulary scanned my pc with other anti virus software like Symantec , BitDefender Standard, ZoneAlarm Antivirus and so on, but they never founded any viruses. With my firewall on (Ashampoo Firewall 1.02) and with this software activated, I do believe that I have a good defence against viruses. Light on resources! Avast is never dull, the interface is cool and it is free!
Björn Lundahl
Göteborg Sweden
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Do not use Kaspersky, Norton, Nod 32, Bitdefender, AVG etc. use Avast and you will have a pc that is malware free and a program which is reliable and just works. The program has a lot of features which many other lacks, features which are essential in the fight against malware. I have been in contact with the company behind Avast named Alwil and they have informed me that since version 4.8 Avast is equipped with heuristics. They are planning to announce this together with other new features related to heuristics in the third quarter of 2009.
Avast is a protective fortress with all its shields and will protect your pc against viruses, spyware, adware, rootkits and other malware. I have used Avast for nearly four years in different computers and it always work reliably and have kept them free from viruses.
Avast has a lot of cool skins to choose from. It is not a dull anti-virus program like the rest.
It is also free!
Note: Equipped with heuristic means that the program has a capability to catch unknown
viruses.
Björn Lundahl
Gothenburg, Sweden