avast home edition obtained VB100% awards in 2002/3 Virus Bulletin comparative reviews under Windows XP Pro and under Windows 2000 Advanced Server.
–>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 – resident scanning of all files being opened, read and written and behavior blocker monitoring dangerous actions of viruses.
–>E-mail scanner easily integrates with most mail clients and it checks both incoming and outgoing mails, it provides heuristic analysis of mail content to protect against new Worms.
–>Boot Time Scanner – scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does (on NT/2000/XP only).
–>Explorer Scanner – right click on the object allows you to scan it.
–>Screen Saver Scanner – integrates with your Screen Saver to scan PC during your coffee breaks.
–>Virus Chest – safety isolated folder to store infected, suspicious and even some system files – to restore them.
NOTE: The software requires FREE registration before the trial period end. You can register here.
Requirements:
· For a computer with Windows 95/98/Me: PC 486, 32 MB RAM, 50 MB of free hard disk space
· For a computer with Windows NT 4.0: PC 486, 32 MB RAM, 50 MB of free hard disk space, Service Pack 3 or higher installed
· For a computer with Windows 2000/XP: PC Pentium, 64 MB RAM (128 MB recommended), 50 MB of free hard disk space
· For a computer with Windows Vista: PC Pentium 4, 512 MB RAM, 50 MB of free hard disk space
· The program itself requires 20 MB, the rest is reserved for the virus recovery database file and its index. [VRDB, also known as the "integrity database" from the previous version]
· A functional MS Internet Explorer 4 or higher is required for the program to work.
Limitations:
· 60 days trial evaluation
What’s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· improvements in some unpackers (WinExec, Installer, ZIP)
· improved memory scan, especially under 64-bit operating systems
· fixed a possible deadlock condition when copying system files from some removable media
· fixed a possible problem with access rights when deleting infected files on reboot
· Web Shield: minor stability fixes
· Internet Mail: smtp.gmail.com and smtp.live.com now ignored on port 25 (as these are SSL only)
· improved healing of some infected files
· various fixes and improvements in the scanning engine
· Web Shield now scans pages compressed with the “deflate” algorithm
· performance optimization of Standard Shield under Windows Vista
· improvements in the automatic sample submission system
· improvements in the URL blocker
click here to download Avast Home Edition
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