On the 29th March alwit software released Avast antivirus v4.8.
This interested me a lot because the new release updates include:
- Anti-spyware protection
- Anti-rootkit protection
You can see the whole list here, avast.com, the good thing is that this also is avalible for the free release that supports Windos Vista x64, and that is whats makes this update very neat. No other well knows antivirus companys has this support yet for theire free release, eaven if this has been a greatly requested feature for a long time. Not including these two features – as I see it, has always been the way to make the customers buy the complete versions of the software.
Anyhow, there is a lot of company’s developing free anti-spyware tools, but the “do not include all features” trend is all over that industry too.
As for me I have always wanted a free anti-spyware software with real-time scanning, but haven’t found any good software with Vista x64 support for free yet, until now.
But what about the other free anti-virus softwares?
Yeah, well.. The free version of avg for example supports Vista x64, it also supports scanning email through thunderbird or other email clients, when avast only support email scanning through Outlook (this is not really true because you can config avast to search email with other email-clients like thunderbird but it’s a bit more advanced setup). AVG only delivers antivirus scans in their free-edition, and they got a free anti-spyware software for download. But then you suddenly got 2 programs to update and scan with and thats just not the way a good anti-virus software should be nowdays.
my Conclusion
Though there is a lot of antivirus developers to choose from and a lot of them is really good, this last update v4.8 for Avast takes avast into another league in free anti-virus software. Well, for me this is the only choice right now on a Vista machine in order to get the complete protection. However you should always use a firewall, say comodo’s and other spyware software and rootkits software additional to your anti-virus software.
Avast is now up and running perfectly, I hope yours does too :D
If not, download your copy of avast, avast.com.
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