COMPUTER REPAIR

Avast Free Antivirus

Avast! Free Antivirus has become one of the most popular free antivirus solutions registering over a million downloads each week! It boasts of a number of features that justify its popularity. Our tests actually puts it among the best free antivirus program running on Windows XP, Vista and the latest Windows 7 platforms.

Avast Free Antivirus Features

• Avast! 6.0 has been optimized to run on the latest Intel chips with multi-core processors. As a result, its Intelligent Scanner technology allows significantly faster scanning and cleaning speed without degrading protection levels. Safe files are tagged in the initial scan and are not scanned the next time unless changes occur in them.
• It offers a multi-layered shield to secure your PC against nearly all malicious threats that include rootkits, spam, malware and spyware, apart from viruses.
• Its proprietary WebRep integrates with the Firefox and IE browsers and comes with a reputation service that indicates the relative safety to visit any site in search engine results.
• An improved heuristic antivirus engine proactively analyzes files and script behavior to predict potential malicious action and sandboxes them to run in a virtual environment so they can't do any damage. Avast 6! is the first free antivirus solution to use virtualization to protect the PC apart from the updates to its virus signature database.
• A gamer mode allows movie watchers and gamers to go into full screen without the annoying popup interruptions typical from security programs but without suspending protection services in the background.

Avast Free Antivirus Effectiveness

With a 98.4% detection rate as shown by AV Comparatives.org, Avast! 6.0 compares favorably with Avira's 98.7% and AVG's 97.1%. For a freeware, this is certainly a standout by any standard.

Avast Free Antivirus User Friendliness

Installing the tool is a breeze with a default setting that is effective enough for most PC users to benefit basic protection. Its sleek user interface and intuitive menu structure are a joy to use.

Avast Free Antivirus Summary

This latest iteration is an improvement over the previous version, offering a significant boost to virus detection abilities with its virtualization heuristics and host of features commonly found in commercial programs. It's not the best nor the most features and to approach that level, you have get is paid commercial version. The bottom line is its a highly effective antivirus protection that rivals some of the features of the best in the market. For a freeware, you just could not ask for more.