Avast AntiVirus Home Edition 6.0.11 + Serial Keys By Ramo

NEW Avast! Free Version 6.0

Avast is one name in the antivirus industry that has endeared itself among over 122 million users worldwide. That happens especially when the company gives away for free a product that does exactly what it promises to do – detect, clean and protect your PC from the harmful codes that mostly come from the internet. That’s what the Avast! Free version 6.0 does with a set of features taken from its paid Pro edition. Needless to say, you just have to contend with pop-up purchase offers to upgrade to the full-featured Pro version, whenever you open the free apps.

Features

As a freeware, it would be too unfair to expect it to match what paid antivirus programs have. It is certainly far from perfect and there are better freeware antivirus programs out there, gut for the money you won’t be spending for it, it does what it sets out to do in most situations. Since it is free, you can download one and try it out yourself.

For starters, the basic protection is right there with features that are present in many commercial products. It stands out with its boot-time scan that effectively overcomes majority of entrenched malware and deeply lodged virus. Infected PCs are notorious for interfering with and even blocking antivirus installation and the Avast boot time scan and detection works before Windows is loaded. Entrenched rootkits and malware at this time are defenseless so that they are easily disabled and removed by Avast.

There is just a downside that has more to do with its highly interactive remediation effort. When the boot-time scan finds a threat, it interrupts the process and prompts you for an instruction to “Move all to chest” or to proceed. But even if you have made an instruction, it will once again prompt you for your decision if its finds the same malware trace in a folder.

The program provides reputation rating of URL sites appearing on your search engine results using its WebRep browser plug-in. The feature leverages its huge user community to gather website rating opinions in Firefox or Internet Explorer. This helps users avoid site with low reputation rating that increases your risk to threats.

Avast has eight distinct "shields" to protect your PC against new malware infection. The most useful is its File System Shield which it checks files as you open it and cleans infected ones. Behavior Shield watches for rootkits and malware-like behavior. Network Shield blocks malicious web sites, and Web Shield checks for dangerous downloads. Other shields are designed to check files coming from e-mail, instant messaging and P2P web traffic.

What is new to this version is the Script Shield which checks scripts, whether web-sourced or local, and blocks their executive should it detect potentially malicious code. This features was once only available from previous paid Pro versions.

Another new feature is its AutoSandbox facility which puts suspicious executable files or programs to run safely in an isolated virtual environment where any virus damage is contained. Running a suspected program that is sandboxed disables altering your Windows registry and saving files.