Avast! Free Antivirus represents the best free antivirus protection currently available on the market.

Feature:

• Antivirus and anti-spyware engine
• Real time anti-rootkit protection
• avast! Community IQ
• Code emulator
• Heuristics engine
• Potentially unwanted programs detection
• Boot-time scanner
• Wake-up for scan
• Scheduled scanning
• avast! Intelligent Scanner
• Behavior Shield
• Behavioral Honeypots
• File System Shield
• Mail Shield
• Web Shield
• P2P Shield
• IM Shield
• Network Shield
• Smart virus definition updates
• Fast application of updates
• Silent/Gaming Mode

System Requirements:

* Operating System: Windows All Version
* Language: English-US
* License: Freeware
* Author: Avast Software
* Website: www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download

Change Log:

* solved a problem that could lead to disappearing of the avast service
* Behavior Shield: solved a minor stability issue (aswSP.sys) + solved a Win7 issue
* performance and stability improvements in the avast! sandbox
* changes in the engine allowing us to generically detect/block some new types of exploits
* speed improvements in the updater
* IS: fixed a vulnerability in aswFw.sys (Secunia Advisory SA40868)
* solved a vulnerability related to license files (Secunia Advisory SA41109)
* solved a problem with scanning of files with very long path names
* fixed the updater in East-Asian versions of avast running with Windows set to a different locale
* IS: improvements in the Outlook antispam plugin
* IS firewall: improvement in the path name matching
* IS: upgraded to the new version of antispam engine
* minor changes and fixes in the GUI
* fixes in the screen reader support
* fixed a bug where the File System Shield was scanning some files even after being disabled
* added trimming of setup.log
* added Danish, Hebrew and Urdu language packs

Avast! Free Antivirus 5.0.677