Avast Home Edition 4.8.1195

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Avast Home Edition is a complete 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 filter 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.

Version 4.8.1195 improves user experience in multiplayer games as well as providing many fixes and optimizations in the scanning engine.

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  Avast Home Edition

  Unintrusive and excellent anti-virus program!

  by: yllacsniks on 12-May-2008 11:22:12 PM

  Pros: This is an excellent free software, I had AVG free Anti virus which is good, but with Avast it runs in the background and doesn't need to be attended to, it pops up with an update box about twice a day and speaks that it has updated and that's all, no fiddling about setting it, just the first time you can set it to do different things, or change it if you want at later times, it scans your incoming email too or whatever you want it too! I like it a lot.

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  Avast Home Edition

  It's not bad

  by: trydgeorge on 13-May-2008 04:46:17 AM

  Pros: not enough time to really tell yet.

  Cons: Same as above

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  Avast Home Edition

  Works exceptional well

  by: fastphoto on 13-May-2008 04:52:38 AM

  Pros: No stupid pop ups.

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  Avast Home Edition

  High Quality, unobtrusive, hands off, free anti-virus program.

  by: nichols_lax on 13-May-2008 06:39:56 AM

  Pros: Pros:

  Doesn't continually prompt you for verifications to pages due to false detections.

  Small daily updates that auto install in seconds.

  Haven't had one problem with viruses after using it for the last 3 years.

  No conflicts between this program and other progams ever.

  Have not had to reload the program due to conflicts since I've used this program. (I did have to reload Norton when I owned it prior to Avast)

  Cons: There is nothing not to like about this program. It does not try to take over your computer like Norton or McAfee.

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