Avast! Free Antivirus 8.0.1489

avast! Free Antivirus is perfect for people who send e-mails and surf popular websites.

Features:

• Improved Antivirus and anti-spyware engine
• New avast! Intelligent Scanner
• New Silent/Gaming Mode
• New Behavior Shield
• Real time anti-rootkit protection
• Smart virus updates
• avast! Community IQ
• Behavioral Honeypots
• Green computing
• avast! iTrack
• File System / Mail Shield
• Web Shield
• IM / P2P Shield
• Network Shield

Free Edition:

• Antivirus Kernel
  • Almost 100% detection
  • Outstanding performance
  • Reasonable memory requirements
  • ICSA certified
• User Interface
  • Memory test during the program startup
  • Very intuitive Simple User Interface
  • Testing whole disks or selected folders
  • Working with the scan results actions with infected files
  • Virus encyclopedia
  • Log Viewer
  • Various appearances skin support
  • Running from Explorer context menu
  • Antivirus screen-saver
• Updates
  • The system of incremental updates guarantees low traffic
  • The updates can be completely automatic
• Resident Protection
  • Standard Shield protects the file system
  • Generic SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 scanner
  • Specific MS Outlook plugin
  • Heuristic analysis in e-mail modules
• Repairing
  • Limited capability of direct repair (especially macroviruses)
  • Repairing files using automatically generated Virus Recovery Database (VRDB)

What's New:

• Changes in the autosandbox module
• Improvements in Remote Assistance (support for UAC prompts etc)
• Improvements in SafeZone (protection against kernel-mode keyloggers; Updated SafeZone Browser; clipboard sharing, etc.)
• Outlook plugin redesign
• Opera support in WebRep
• SiteCorrect module for the detection of unwanted websites
• Windows 8 compatibility updates
• Emergency Updater