avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users and non-commercial use. Both of these conditions should be met! Our company offers the Home Edition free of charge, since, in our opinion, it is possible to avoid global virus spreading by efficient prevention; however, many users are not able to or do not want to pay for antivirus software. This page will show you the most important features of this program.
Institutions (even non-commercial ones) are not allowed to use avast! Home Edition. However, ALWIL Software provides the full line of avast! antivirus products at special discount prices for non-profit, charity, educational and government institutions. Please see our price lists for details.
avast! 4 Professional Edition is a collection of award winning, high-end technologies that work in perfect synergy, having one common goal: to protect your system and valuable data against computer viruses. It represents a best-in-class solution for any Windows-based workstation. This page demonstrates its most important features and provides links to further resources.
Features:
- Antivirus kernel
- Simple User Interface
- Enhanced User Interface
- Resident protection
- Script Blocker (Professional Edition only
- P2P and IM Shields
- Network Shield
- Web Shield
- Automatic updates
- PUSH updates
- Virus Chest
- System integration
- Command-line scanner
- Integrated Virus Cleaner
- Support for 64-bit Windows
- Internationalization
Version 4.8.1282
November 12, 2008
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
Homepage：http://www.iavs.net；http://www.iavs.net/index_cns.html
Support Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/XP/Vista
v4.8.1282 Pro Edition：
http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/setupengpro.exe
v4.8.1282 Home Edition：Free Free Register Here
http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/setupeng.exe
Skins：http://www.avast.com/eng/skins.html
Remove Tool：http://files.avast.com/files/eng/aswclear.exe
Updates：http://files.avast.com/iavs4pro/vpsupd.exe
For More Platform ：http://www.iavs.net/cns/programs.html
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