avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package.

Avast! Home Edition Features:

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)

PLATFORMS

- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Windows Me
- Windows NT 4
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP

What's New:

Changelog Version 4.7.1043, September 6, 2007

* fixed a problem in the boot-time scanner (prevents the intermittent "Unhandled Exception" errors)
* added Inno Setup unpacker
* speed optimization of certain operations (e.g. scanning of emails in the Internet Mail provider)
* Standard Shield: fixed a memory leak (Windows NT/200/XP)
* mail scanner: fix in IMAP handler (solves problems with Nortel CallPilot, for example)
* Windows Vista: removed the conflict with Asus Data Security Manager
* Web Shield: now scans even data returned from HTTP POST requests
* speed improvements in the area selection dialog
* fixed various small issues on Windows Vista

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