avast! Home 5.0.239 Beta

4.6 out of 5 stars 4.6 (852 votes)

BETA (November 18, 2009)

Windows 2000/9x/Vista/XP / Freeware / 78,798 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. 4 out of 5 stars
    elkal000

    Reviewing 5.0.239 Beta (Nov 19, 2009)

    Worked fine so far, not too demanding in terms of ram and cpu, overall a good anti-virus.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    radiomaffia

    Reviewing 5.0.188 Beta (Oct 24, 2009)

    Dont get mislead by this skin, it isn't even the skin that you will see after installing the software of avast! Recommended for newbies that don't want to pay for antivirus software and want a reasonable protection, well this the one!! Get it, its free and in : About Avast.. you can send in for a new yearkey after 365 days.
    Comparing to Avira that is only 1 computer on ip for personal free use avast! can run on every pc on 1 ipadres, that is something to remind you when you are choosing! The only thing that is annoying me is that it's blocks downloading rar/zip files with a virus like crack.exe when I can make myself the right decission not to open that .exe file. Avira doesn't block downloading and isn't looking into those specific rar/zip files.

  3. 2 out of 5 stars
    ballyhairs

    Reviewing 5.0.188 Beta (Oct 24, 2009)

    NOD32 is 100 star

  4. 1 out of 5 stars
    CyberDoc999

    Reviewing 5.0.188 Beta (Oct 24, 2009)

    I agree AntiVir is a 5 and avast is a 1 star

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    thartist

    Reviewing 5.0.167 Beta (Oct 15, 2009)

    I just hope that besides the really important improvements, it gets a decent skin and doesn't ask for money for it.

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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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