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avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home users, non-commercial users. Both conditions should be met!

ALWIL Software a.s. offers avast! Home Edition free of charge, since in their opinion, it is possible to avoid global virus spreading by efficient prevention; however, many user are not able or do not want to pay for antivirus software. This page will show you the most important features of this program.

Features of avast! Home Edition 5.0 :

· Antivirus kernel
· Automatic updates
· Simple User Interface
· Virus Chest
· Resident protection
· System integration

What's New in avast! Home Edition 4.8.1367 :

· solved a memory leak in the GZIP unpacker
· solved vulnerabilities in AavmKer4.sys, aswMon2.sys and ashWsFtr.dll (special thanks to Giuseppe Bonfa, Alex and Maxim A. Kulakov)
• avast! Home Edition 4.8.1351
· improvements in some unpackers (WinExec, Installers, Droppers)
· various fixes and improvements in the scanning engine
· Standard Shield: stability improvements in the kernel-mode drivers
· preparations for smoother migration to v5 (when it's released)

What's New in avast! Home Edition 5.0.326 Beta :

· solved a nasty memory leak in AIS (reported a few times on the forum)
· (hopefully) solved all the issues related to trial licenses and registrations
· solved scan areas in custom scans
· solved areas in boot-time scanner
· solved some Behavior Shield -related crashes in aswSP.sys
· solved some sandbox-related crashes in aswSnx.sys
· stability and functional improvements in the firewall