avast! Free Antivirus 5.0.545

avast! Free Antivirus is a free malware detection and removal program.

Key features

• Real time protection
• avast! Community IQ
• Suspicious code emulator allows avast! Free Antivirus to test for malicious actions
• Heuristics engine detects new malware
• Potentially unwanted programs detection such as remote admin tools and commercial key loggers
• Boot-time scanner can scan before the system starts and the virus can protect itself (32-bit operating systems only)
• avast! Free Antivirus can wake up the system for a scan and go into standy mode again
• Schedule scans
• Intelligent scanner: certain programs are not scanned again unless they are modified

Other features

• Real-time scanning of opened and executed files
• Mail Shield: scans incoming and outgoing emails for malicious files
• Web Shield: scans all temporary files cached when visiting sites
• P2P Shield: scans files download using using P2P file sharing programs
• IM Shield: scans files sent through instant messaging programs
• Network Shield: detects and blocks attempts to visit malicious sites
• Incremental definitions updating system
• Full screen detection with security popup suppression
• Multi-threaded scanning CPU optimization
• avast! iTrack: real-time scanning reports
• Easy to navigate graphical interface
• Automatic processing of infected files

• Silent Firewall
• Antispam (MS Outlook and generic email clients)
• avast! Sandbox virtual environment
• IE 32-bit script shield
• Command-line scanner