avast! 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:

solved incompatibility with System Safety Monitor improved compatibility of the self defense module with XP SP3 (and its installation) minor enhancements in the Web Shield (detection of streaming content) minor fixes in the updater