avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users and non-commercial use.
Features :
Antivirus kernel
Automatic updates
Simple User Interface
Virus Chest
Resident protection
System integration
P2P and IM Shields
Integrated Virus Cleaner
Network Shield
Support for 64-bit Windows
Web Shield
Internationalization
Changes in version 4.6.731 , November 12, 2005 :
- 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
avast! 4 Home Edition work 60 days after installation in demo mode. You will obtain FREE license key by E-mail after the registration. The license key is valid for 1 year. After one year you need to just re-register.
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