Avast! Home Edition
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| Developer: | ALWIL Software |
| License: | Freeware / Free |
| User Rating: |   (179 votes) |
| Offical Website: | www.avast.com |
| Platform: | Windows |
Avast! Home Edition Review
Avast! Home Edition is an free antivirus software package which is available with more than twenty language versions such as English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Chinese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Other, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and more. The program developed by ALWIL Software Company.
Among many another free anti-virus software, Avast! Home Edition is the popular one. Avast! Home edition is available for personal and non commercial purpose. You can download and use it for free of charge. Avast! anti-virus software is also a good solution for viruses protection. Easy to use and install. One feature that make Avast! different from other anti-virus software is that there are many skins for Avast! antivirus that you can download for free.
Highlight Features of Avast! Home Edition
Three scan areas option:
- Local disk: scan virus in hard disk in the computer.
- Removable media: scan virus in the selected removable device that connected to computer.
- Folders: allow scanning specifics folders, can be one or more base on user’s need.
Three levels of scanning:
- Quick scan: scan necessary and important part of the computer, this option need less time to complete.
- Standard scan: this is scan as standard.
- Thorough scan: the full scan for computer and take a bit long time to complete.
Update with two features:
- Virus database update
- Program update
With the update option, Avast! Allows users to update automatic, ask when update available or manual.
Avast! INew: keep up to date new about ALWIL Software Company and virus in the world.
Virus Chest: store any infected files from scanning.
Web shield, Network shield, P2P shield, and Standard shield, Instant Messaging, Internet and Outlook on access scanner. User can also set sensitivity levels: normal, high, or custom.
Alert sound when it detected virus.
Simple user interface that allow user to change skin of the program.
After registration you will get key that can be used for 14 months. After that period, user is required to do registration again to get new key.
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