avast! 4 Home Edition is a free complete ICSA certified antivirus software for home noncommercial use.

avast! obtained VB100% awards in 2002/3 Virus Bulletin comparative reviews under Windows XP Pro and under Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

avast! Home Edition 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 - resident scanning of all files being opened, read and written and behavior blocker monitoring dangerous actions of viruses.
- E-mail scanner easily integrates with most mail clients and it checks both incoming and outgoing mails, it provides heuristic analysis of mail content to protect against new Worms.
- Boot Time Scanner - scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does (on NT/2000/XP only).
- Explorer Scanner - right click on the object allows you to scan it.
- Screen Saver Scanner - integrates with your Screen Saver to scan PC during your coffee breaks.
- Virus Chest - safety isolated folder to store infected, suspicious and even some system files - to restore them.

Protect your system and valuable data against computer viruses with Avast! Home Edition.

Our true incremental updates are based on iAVS technology and they are available for virus definition file update and for program upgrade.
You can download and install updates by simple clicking on the iAVS icon, it can be checked and done automatically when you are On-line.

The update files of size under 100 KB are available at least twice a week and within couple of hours in the case of emergency of new virus. They are automatically downloaded, installed and loaded to avast! without restart or logoff.

Program upgrades are available time to time, they are incremental too (about 300 KB).

You will download a 60 days fully functional demo. You will obtain the free license key by E-mail after the registration HERE
Download, install, try, register, update and relax!

What's New in This Release:

· aswRdr.sys: fixed a race condition that could eventually lead even to a system crash
· improvements in the executable file unpackers
· enhanced tolerancy against damaged archives
· boot-time scan now supports the "Move to chest" command
· mail scanner: fixes in IMAP handling (NTLM authentication related)
· the "Date of last scan" entry is now updated by all scanners (not only Simple UI)
· added support for CAB and LHA sfx archives
· P2P Shield: added support for BitLord, uTorrent and ABC
· boot-time scan now shows textual error strings (instead of error codes)
· WebShield: fixed parsing of HTTP requests in the case where a header is larger than 64K
· WebShield: fixes in the detection of Transfer-Encoding:chunked
· WebShield: new avast4.ini options: NoDefOptinProcess, NoDefIgnoreProcess, default=0
· WebShield: miniscule fix in the GUI
· minor fixes in the email scanner (related to Lotus Notes clients)
· GUI: most lists (e.g. areas to test, exceptions etc) now support the following keyboard shortcuts: INS = Add, DEL = Delete, F2 = Edit
· Aswrdr.sys: fixed compatibility problem with Windows Vista beta versions
· fixed a problem with the boot-time scanner under Windows Vista beta
· fixed crashes of the physical memory scan under WinXP x64
· mail heuristics: added detection of multiple content-type headers
· avast now does not report the "file is corrupted" messages when trying to unpack a modified, unknown or damaged version of a Winexec packer
· sched.exe now supports all params of the boot-time scanner
· added Greek language version