Avast! Home Edition. A very effective and free antivirus

Surf the Internet to meet new friends and keep up to date on what is happening in the world every day for many of us is now a habit during which often lower our guard when we visit sites strangers who ask us to download navigation tools necessary to receive or when e-mail with attachments from perfect strangers.

To avoid unpleasant incidents during the navigation and keep clean our PCs, our weapon is a good virus but we need to keep updated otherwise we do not need to nothing.

Those who can not or do not want to spend money on anti-virus can rely to avast! Home Edition, because it is absolutely free for home use, non-commercial. Companies should instead, wanted to use if avast! Must buy the license, the same applies to public institutions but also the manufacturer guarantees discounts for non-profit associations, educational institutions and government.

Avast! Antivirus is developed since 1988 by AWIL Software as a company in the Czech Republic. Initially, the software was distributed only in language but czech now boasts a distribution in 25 different languages and in October 2007 has reached its registration 40 millionth customer for the program avast! Antivirus Home Edition.

The program with its new version of the kernel has a very good ability to detect viruses on the network and blocking most trojans.

Let's see what are the characteristics of avast! Antivirus:

Protection resident Standard

A powerful form resident discovered the first virus that infected the computer and denies access to the machine.

This module also controls the files on the computer system and e-mail.

The protection of system files ensures that no virus will be loaded on the PC.

The e-mail is checked whether the user is working on protocols SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 is through a special plug-in eg MS Outlook.

The mail is also controlled with the "scanning heuristics" that deals with the body of the email and any attachments before alerting download mail happened if the mail viruses.

P2P and IM Protection

Avast! Has a module for the protection of IM (Instant Messaging, chat), and a module for the protection of P2P (peer-to-peer) supporting over 30 of this program.

Network Security

Only NT systems (Windows NT/2000/XP/2003) as a 'firewall light provides protection against worms and attacks from the Internet analyzing all network traffic and content checking

possibly dangerous.

Web Security

Protecting Web filters and monitors all traffic coming from HTTP Web sites on the Internet, working as transparent HTTP proxy compatible with all major browsers.

Thanks to a tool called "Intelligent Stream Scan" the impact on the security Web browsing speed is almost negligible.

Automatic Updates

As we said a virus to be effective needs to be updated and it avast! We are meeting with the automatic updates are incremental that with the transfer of new or missing data thus reducing transfers heavily.

Trash Virus

A special folder on the hard drive is called Virus and the trash is nothing but a place where, thanks to particular property, isolate viruses. The main feature of trash virus is the 'complete isolation from the rest of the operating system.

Avast! Virus Cleaner

Avast! Includes Virus Cleaner, a tool designed for the complete removal of the most common infections from computers already infected. So, besides preventing the attacks is able to eliminate the common malware.

Avast! Home Edition can be downloaded free of charge for home use, non-commercial at the following address http://avast.com/ita/download-avast-home.html

Once downloaded setupeng.exe (for the program in English) click on it to start the simple installation program. We accept the defaults and the question Do you want to set up a control virus hard disk to reboot? Answer Yes. We choose Restart and then click on Finish.

Once restarted the computer, make sure you connect to the Internet, start the software and click registration program in the window that appears. Compile the form online and click Register. Back in avast!, and type the code received our e-mail in Insert the Code License and press OK.

Attention! Although avast! Home Edition is free, we have 60 days in which to register after which the software will stop working.

Remaining connected to the Internet, updating the virus definitions. We click with the right mouse button on avast! and choose in systray Update / Update iAVS. If we want to upgrade the program choose Updating / Upgrading Program.

After being updated, the start antivirus and choose what examine him: hard disks, removable media or individual folders. These three options are located on the right of: to perform a full system scan button click on Local Disks. Do not forget to scan compressed files also. At the top of the window is a section with an indication Scan Standard. We select the item Check File Zipped. You will notice a slowdown in scanning but in this way the software will be able to monitor and detect possible viruses from files ZIP and RAR.

Bootstrap scanning clicking on Start. If a virus is detected avast! the signals with a pop-up window containing the actions to perform and advice on how to proceed. We click on Repair to clean up the infected files. A few seconds and the virus will be definitively defeated.

From this moment we perfectly clean up your computer from viruses and constantly protected as long as regularly updating the software and the virus definitions.