Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus 4.8.1356

Avast Home Edition - Free Antivirus 4.8.1356 brings you a popular and great 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.

Major Features:

1. Anti-spyware built-in   
2. Anti-rootkit built-in  
3. Strong self-protection  
4. Antivirus kernel  
5. Simple User Interface  
6. Resident protection  
7. P2P and IM Shields  
8. Network Shield    
9. Web Shield
10. Automatic updates
11. Virus Chest
12. System integration
13. Integrated Virus Cleaner
14. Support for 64-bit Windows
15. Internationalization

• Solved a memory leak in the GZIP unpacker
• Solved vulnerabilities in AavmKer4.sys, aswMon2.sys and ashWsFtr.dll (special thanks to Giuseppe Bonfa, Alex and Maxim A. Kulakov)

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).