avast! antivirus Home Edition represents the best antivirus protection available and is available free of charge for non-commercial, home use. It is designed to protect your valuable data and programs, as well as keep itself up-to-date. It also comes with the kind of built-in features that many vendors charge for additionally, or don't include at all such as anti-spyware, anti-rootkit and strong self-protection. Simply install and forget. To download avast! antivirus Home Edition for free, click here.

Changelog:

• avast! now contains a built-in anti-rootkit protection
• avast! now comes with a built-in anti-spyware protection
• new self-defense function to prevent active malware from terminating avast! processes as well as corrupting avast! files and registry items
• scanners now display a progress of current scan (percentage of work done)
• fixed a vulnerability in AavmKer4.sys kernel-mode driver (problem applies to Windows NT/2000/XP, 32-bit only); special thanks to Tobias Klein
• improvements in boot-time scanner (detection & removal of hidden or hard to delete files)
• boot-time scanner will not start when booting into Safe Mode (the program was "invisible" in that case, no progress/messages could be seen)
• improvements in many unpackers
• ACE and RAR unpackers now work even in boot-time scanner
• IM Shield: added support for QQ
• improvements in handling of NTFS streams
• Internet Mail provider now displays the name of the sending/receiving program in the tooltip of its taskbar icon
• implemented a protection against false positives in critical system files
• removed a small memory leak in one of avast! drivers (Windows Vista and XP 64-bit only)
• added support for 64-bit WHS connector (available in WHS Power Pack 1)
• greatly improved performance of the updater, especially in cases where many increments are being downloaded (e.g. avast! installations with outdated virus definitions)
• silent installation now also includes scheduled tasks, if any
• resolved a compatibility issue with Acronis TrueImage (XP 64-bit only)
• compatibility tests with Vista SP1 and XP SP3

Program Information Category: Tools and Utilities Type: Free Version: 4.8.1169 Size: 20.78MB Works on: Windows Product page: here