Avast Free Antivirus 6 features outstanding detection abilities, together with high performance , surely has lots of advantages over other free antivirus program . It includes powerful security features that protect your computer without compromising your system performance or stability .

Avast Free Anti Virus software version 6 is now packed with Avast WebRep and Auto Sandbox offers you a better protection for your computer . Enjoy your daily and online activities as WebRep will help improve your browsing experience while Auto Sandboxwill prevent any damage being caused to your system by any infected applications .

Avast Free Antivirus 6 Features :

• New features

Avast WebRep is based on information received from the global avast! user community related to the content and security of visited websites, to help improve the browsing experience of all users. When you open your Web browser you will be able to see a reputation of every site you go to and whilst browsing through particular sites like popular search engines you will see that all the links are decorating with a color-coded mark that gives you intelligence on how did the avast! community rate that particular domain.

Auto Sandbox is a special security feature which allows potentially suspicious applications to be automatically run in a completely isolated environment . If an application is started and avast! 6.x detects anything suspicious, it will let you choose if you want to run the application automatically in the AutoSandbox, by default. As the application will be completely contained within the sandbox, this will prevent any damage being caused to your system by any infected applications.

• Improved features

Antivirus and anti-spyware engine
State of the art scanning engine provides reliable protection against viruses, spyware and other forms of malicious software.
Real time anti-rootkit protection
Unique “on access” technology checks all kernel-mode drivers that the operating system is loading for signs of rootkit behavior. This enables even unknown rootkits to be detected and stopped before they can do any damage.

avast! Community IQ
Most samples we process come from sensors deployed throughout the avast! community in the Behavior shield and anti-rootkit modules. This is a unique source of data made possible only thanks to our huge user base. Most of the collected samples are analysed by a number of automated processes and only a small fraction of the samples need to be processed manually by our virus analysts.

Behavior Shield

Monitors activity on your computer using a number of sensors (file system, registry and network based) and reports/blocks any suspicious behavior.

Behavioral Honeypots
avast! sensors identify and monitor suspicious file activity on selected computers, automatically submitting files to the Virus Lab for additional analysis.

File System Shield
Real-time scanning of opened/executed files.

Mail Shield
Scans all incoming/outgoing e-mails for malware. For MS Outlook, a special plug-in is used. Other email clients are protected by a generic POP3/IMAP4/SMTP proxy. New in version 5, the proxy also supports scanning of SSL communication .

Web Shield
Scans all visited web pages and checks all files, pages and java scripts downloaded from the internet. Thanks to the Intelligent Stream Scan feature, the Web shield doesn’t slow down your web browsing.

P2P Shield
Checks files downloaded using P2P programs. – ABC, Ares, Azureus, BearShare, Bit Torrent, BitComet, BitLord, BitPump, CZDC++, Direct Connect, eDonkey, eMule, iDC++, iMesh, Kazaa, Kceasy, LimeWire, Morpheus, Opera’s DC++, Overnet, Qtrax, Shareaza, SoulSeek, StrongDC++, uTorrent, Vuze, WinMX, Winny2, Zultrax.

IM Shield
Checks files downloaded while using instant messaging or “chat” programs. – AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Gadu-Gadu, gaim/Pidgin, Google Talk, ICQ, IM2 Messenger, Infium, Miranda, mIRC, MSN/Windows Messenger, Odigo, PalTalk Messenger, Psi Jabber Client, QIP, QQ, SIM, Skype, Tlen, Trillian, WengoPhone, XFire, Yahoo! Messenger.

Network Shield
Provides protection against network-based viruses. The module has two main components: a URL blocker, designed to block malicious URLs (as defined by the Virus Lab), and a lightweight intrusion-detection system.