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avast! Home Edition

avast! Home Edition

anti-virus scanner

Our Rating: 5 stars (Excellent)

avast! Home Edition is a complete anti-virus package, that is is free for registered home non-commercial users. It contains an on-demand scanner with two interfaces (simple for novices and advanced for experienced users), an on-access scanner with Standard Shield (which protects against execution and opening malware programs) and an embedded e-mail scanner which scans incoming and outgoing email messages. avast! Home integrates with the Windows Explorer right click menu and also includes a special screen saver which is able to scan your system while your computer is not in use. Updates are incremental and frequently made available for manual or scheduled download. You will download a 30 day demo, if you would like to continue free usage beyond that time, you`ll need to register from the home page to obtain a free activation key by email.

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Product Details

avast! Home Edition
Publisher ALWIL Software
File Size53550 kb
Version5.0.594 (history)
Last updatedJun 29, 2010
LicenseFreeware
WindowsXP/Vista/7 x64
RequirementsNone
Other productsAll 3 products from this developer

clean software avast! Home Edition does not contain any adware or spyware.

Note: This product cannot be installed on a server operating system

Popularity: 5/5 Overall Rank: 22

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