Avast Home Edition 4.8.1335.90416

Avast Home Edition 4.8.1335.90416 is a high-speed and powerful program which is capable of the best FREE antivirus protection currently available on the market. This edition is FREE OF CHARGE for non-commercial & home use only. Both of these conditions should be met! If you are not a home user or if you use your computer for business purposes, we offer a wide range of more suitable products providing higher data security, starting with avast! Professional Edition.

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Major Features:

1. Antivirus kernel:
   
   • Almost 100% detection
   • Anti-rootkit, anti-spyware built-in
   • Outstanding performance
   • Reasonable memory requirements
   • ICSA certified
2. User interface:
   • Memory test during the program startup
   • Very intuitive Simple User Interface
   • Testing whole disks or selected folders
   • Working with the scan results - actions with infected files
   • Virus encyclopedia
   • Log Viewer
   • Various appearances - skin support
   • Running from Explorer context menu
   • Antivirus screen-saver
3. Updates:
   
   • The system of incremental updates guarantees low traffic
   • The updates can be completely automatic
4. Resident protection:
   
   • Standard Shield protects the file system
   • Generic SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 scanner
   • Specific MS Outlook plugin
   • Heuristic analysis in e-mail modules
5. Repairing: 
   • Limited capability of direct repair (especially macroviruses)
   • Repairing files using automatically generated Virus Recovery Database (VRDB)
6. Platforms:
   
   • Windows 95
   • Windows 98
   • Windows Me
   • Windows NT 4 (No Server)
   • Windows 2000 (No Server)
   • Windows XP (No Server)
   • Windows Vista

Requirements:

1. For a computer running Windows® 95/98/Me: 486 Processor, 32MB RAM and 100MB of free hard disk space.
2. For a computer running Windows® NT® 4.0: 486 Processor, 24MB RAM and 100MB of free hard disk space and Service Pack 3 (or higher) installed
3. For a computer running Windows® 2000/XP® Workstation (Not Server): Pentium class Processor, 64MB RAM (128MB recommended) and 100MB of free hard disk space
4. For a computer running Windows® XP® 64-bit Edition: An AMD Athlon64, Opteron or Intel EM64T-enabled Pentium 4 / Xeon processor, 128MB RAM (256MB recommended) and 100MB of free hard disk space
5. For a computer running Windows® Vista: Pentium 4 processor, 512MB RAM and 100MB of free hard disk space
6. The program itself requires about 60MB of hard disk space; the remainder of the recommended space is reserved for the virus recovery database file and its index (VRDB, also known as the "integrity database" from the previous version).
7. A functional MS Internet Explorer 4 or higher is required for the program to work.
8. This product cannot be installed on a server operating system (Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 Server families).
9. Note: The operating systems Windows 95/98/Me/NT4 will be supported until the end of 2009.