All-inclusive and comprehensive protection FREE avast! antivirus Home Edition includes ANTI-SPYWARE protection, certified by the West Coast Labs Checkmark process, and ANTI-ROOTKIT detection based on the best-in class GMER technology. No additional purchase is required.

Changelog:

• improvements in some unpackers (Zip, 7-Zip, WinExec, Installer)
• fixed incompatibility with ext2fsd driver
• fixed a problem in The Bat! plugin (causing orphaned thebat.exe processes after the program was closed)
• added new unpacker "droppers" (by default turned on in all tasks including the real time scanner)
• fixed a problem with actions on infected files with special names
• Network Shield: added a component for blocking of malware URLs
• added the possibility of sending of statistical information about detected viruses
• added a new option of reporting of false positives
• improved the submission from the Virus Chest (now based on HTTP protocol)
• added a component for gathering of new samples from exploited pages
• implemented a limit of the maximum size of the selfdef.log file
• speed optimizations in the updater
• speed optimizations in the scanning engine
• solved a minor conflict with McAfee SiteAdvisor
• added support for the Windows Security Center in Vista SP1 (new API)
• minor fixes in the Web Shield
• removed support for ICQ a MSN Messenger alerts

Program Information Category: Tools and Utilities Type: Free Version: 4.8.1282 Size: 26.19MB Works on: Windows Product page: here