Avast Anti Virus - Free Anti Virus software
I would like to share a FREE anti virus software with u all. It’s Avast Anti Virus! Avast Anti Virus is free for home use.
So far I think Avast anti virus covers most of the area, ex: frequent virus definition update (almost daily), anti virus program automatic update, dos mode full system scan, email scanning, web shield, p2p shield and etc. In term of resources, Avast anti virus take more a bit more resources compare to AVG anti virus.
Here is the 7 types of protection avast! 4 Home Edition FREE anti virus software provides:-
1. Standard Shield
2. Web Shield
3. P2P Shield
4. Network Shield
5. Internet Mail
6. Outlook / Exchange
7. Instant Messaging
You can customize the sensitivity level Normal, High and Custom.
It’s worth to mention the Web Shield feature in Avast Anti virus. Since we use to surf web everyday, this Web Shield feature becomes very useful especially when you went to some websites that automatically install virus in your pc without your knowledge. At this time, Avast anti virus web shield will activate and alert you about the virus it try to install in your pc.
Besides, here is another personal experience. The first week i installed Avast anti virus, one of my colleague plug her laptop into our office network right beside me. 5 seconds later, my avast anti virus gave me a warning message! “Warning a virus has been detected…” When i check the virus details, it shows there is a worms trying to attack my computer thru the network and tat worms is coming from my collegue Laptop tat just plug into the network. Avast anti virus is so amazing!
Download avast! 4 Home Edition FREE at Avast.com
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July 18th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Avast antivirus home edition is the super suck antivirus program, you don’t know your windows is affected by virus one, if you try others antivirus program to scan your windows, you will find out that there are many worm, trojan and spyware if you are the guy that download BT frequently.
If you want a free and good antivirus, I suggest AVS (Active Virus Shield), this antivirus program was given from AOL, it’s using Kaspersky engine.
If you install Avast in your windows, remove it and try to install AVS, you will find out that they are so much worm, trojan and virus in your comp.
July 19th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Oh really? So far it seems no problem for me.
I’ll try to install AVS to scan thru my pc,
will let u know the result.
Thanks
BTW, i’ve downloaded AVS but it cant be installed cuz the installation file corrupted at the server side
July 19th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
FYI, AVS cannot run in Vista
August 8th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
I’ve used Avast for a couple of years now; never seemed to have any issues. This does update itself almost daily, so i would have thought that it would be able to prevent most attacks (if not all).
August 20th, 2007 at 10:31 am
i would prefer avg over avast…but free is always good
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:06 am
[...] Avast anti virus provide schedule boot scan before window start. if your PC got infected by virus, try to run a schedule boot scan before window start. This is to make sure the virus can’t load itself into the system memory while window start. [...]
July 4th, 2008 at 3:33 am
j’aimerais savoir s’il y a un moyen de communiquer avec un de vos bureau car je voulais acheter un anti-virus et j’ai fait un erreur j’étais sur le site anglais et j’ai acheter a la place pour downloader de la musique ce qui ne fait pas du tout mon affaire s.v.p. une réponse
merci claire patoine
July 4th, 2008 at 8:55 am
claire patoine: Avast anti virus come with French translation. Please make sure u install french translation during the Avast installation process, and it should show french character for the application. Or else you can contact Avast at http://www.avast.com
August 12th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
hi, cant find a free virus protection that does what it says it does,and as im a novice on the computor i need one for me can u help thanks