Avast! Home Edition 5.0.366 Beta / 4.8.1368

Avast! Home Edition 5.0.366 Beta / 4.8.1368 is one 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)

Requirements:

• For a computer running Windows® 95/98/Me: 486 Processor, 32MB RAM and 100MB of free hard disk space.
• 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
• For a computer running Windows® 2000/XP® Workstation (Not Server): Pentium class Processor, 64MB RAM (128MB recommended) and 100MB of free hard disk space
• 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
• For a computer running Windows® Vista, Windows® 7: Pentium 4 processor, 512MB RAM and 100MB of free hard disk space.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).
• A functional MS Internet Explorer 4 or higher is required for the program to work.
• This product cannot be installed on a server operating system (Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 Server families).