Avast! Home 4.8.1356

A fully featured and freeware antivirus tool
Some anti-virus programs cause more problems than they solve. Avast! Home Edition anti-virus is thankfully not one of those as it exceeds expectations while remaining free. Lightweight, vigilant and most importantly, effective, this could be the answer to your prayers if you’ve had no luck finding a virus checker you like.

Languages:

English

Recent changes in Avast! Home:

• solved a memory leak in the GZIP unpacker
• solved vulnerabilities in AavmKer4.sys, aswMon2.sys and ashWsFtr.dll

OS requirements for Avast! Home:

• OS: Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP

Pros

• Very efficient at catching trojans and viruses
• Does not slow down your PC
• Lots of skins

Cons

• Manual scans could be a bit easier for first time users
• Not suitable for older machines

License:

Free

Added:

May 2, 2007

Updated:

October 1, 2009

Publisher:

Website

File size:

301 KB

Downloads:

184,043

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