avast! Free Antivirus 5.0.396

4.6 out of 5 stars 4.6 (903 votes)

(February 1, 2010)

Windows 2000/9x/Vista/XP / Freeware / 83,047 downloads

avast! is an antivirus set that is able to detect the presence of viruses in computers. It has a powerful antivirus kernal that has a boot-time scan, improved resident protection, heuristic analysis for email, and a script blocker. The program works great as a on-demand and/or resident virus scanner. The skinable interface is easy to use for any user.

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    jetz

    Reviewing 5.0.396 (Feb 4, 2010)

    V5 is great! Memory and resource usage is very low. Impressive! Been using avast for year absolutely problem free on all my pc's.

  2. 4 out of 5 stars
    pdail

    Reviewing 5.0.393 Beta (Jan 28, 2010)

    Very nicely done. A much improvement. I look forward to trying this out.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    Joseph A

    Reviewing 5.0.393 Beta (Jan 27, 2010)

    EDIT: Feb. 1, 2010

    There is a new final avast! 5 version, namely 5.0.396, that fixes the issues reported for the 5.0.377 (final) and 5.0.393 (pre-release) versions. Most importantly, the intermittent system crashes (BSODs) seem to have been solved.

    Tthis version is available as an internal update for the previous final version (5.0.377) and also as an independent download in the publisher's link, http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download or in http://download.cnet.com...10019223.html?tag=mncol and
    http://www.softpedia.com...vast-Home-Edition.shtml.

    I repeat here that the name of the program is now "avast! Free Antivirus".

  4. 4 out of 5 stars
    butthead

    Reviewing 5.0.393 Beta (Jan 27, 2010)

    Unfortunately the final version turned out to be a performance hog on my not so slow system (intel P8600/4GB ram), Avast 4 was running fine, while the new version slowed down my overall system performance. Now test-running MS security essentials, so far so good.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    Joseph A

    Reviewing 5.0.366 Beta (Jan 22, 2010)

    Avast 5.0 final is available since January 19, 2010. It is now called "avast! Free Antivirus" and its version is 5.0.377. It is available at

    http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download

    I have submitted the new version to Fileforum on January 20, but for some reason it was not included in Fileforum's collection so far.

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  1. Oct 15, 2009 - 6:21 PM
    Sativarg

    Might it be better to link to New beta refresh 5.0.167 as a home page for this reliece

    [Incomplete] change log:

    - improvements in the Explorer right-click scan
    - improvements in the localizations (French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Polish, Russian and Chinese localizations should now be complete)
    - Add and Submit commands in the virus chest now working
    - fixed a few memory leaks in the GUI process
    - boot-time scan logs now in the Scan logs folder (this feature is still unfinished)
    - added controls for actions on infected files inside archives
    - fixed the Block command in the Ask dialog
    - improvements in the silent installer
    - the program is now working under Windows 2000 (SP4 or higher)

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