avast! 4 Home Edition is a free complete ICSA certified antivirus software for home noncommercial use.

avast! obtained VB100% awards in 2002/3 Virus Bulletin comparative reviews under Windows XP Pro and under Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

avast! Home Edition includes the following components:
· On Demand Scanner - with Skinnable Simple Interface - just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button.
· On Access Scanner - resident scanning of all files being opened, read and written and behavior blocker monitoring dangerous actions of viruses.
· E-mail scanner easily integrates with most mail clients and it checks both incoming and outgoing mails, it provides heuristic analysis of mail content to protect against new Worms.
· Boot Time Scanner - scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does (on NT/2000/XP only).

· Explorer Scanner - right click on the object allows you to scan it.
· Screen Saver Scanner - integrates with your Screen Saver to scan PC during your coffee breaks.
· Virus Chest - safety isolated folder to store infected, suspicious and even some system files - to restore them.