Avast Free Antivirus

Avast Free Antivirus is a full-featured product, with the same antivirus and anti-spyware scanning engine used in our premium products. Leaner and meaner version 6.0 provides even faster protection than its predecessor and offers a web-reputation browser extension as well as virtualization technology. Accurate threat updates via avast! CommunityIQ technology ensure worry-free downloading, surfing, social networking, and gaming--for over 150 million registered users (and over 120 million active users).

What's new in this version: solved a problem in aswSP.sys that could lead to a system crash - improved tolerance for corrupted installations - when updating from a previous version of avast Pro/IS, SafeZone is now automatically added - solved a compatibility problem with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro - improved cleaning of rootkits - fixes in Chrome WebRep plugin - Behavior Shield: improved compatibility with other applications - improvements in the CommunityIQ submission system - various performance and compatibility improvements