A new, streamlined user interface for simplified navigation and more user comfort.

Rescue disk - allow users to create a bootable CD or flash disk with Avast on it.

Also, online banking sites can be automatically opened in the SafeZone. Users can now switch back and forth between SafeZone and the regular browser with a single click.

All-new SafeZone for more secure online shopping and banking.

The DNT functionality doesn’t rely on the DNT HTTP headers instead, it uses a proprietary technology that cannot be overridden by the servers.

All-new web browser plugins featuring comprehensive security ratings, protection against malware, phishing and typosquatting sites and Do-Not-Track (DNT) functionality for improved anonymity on the Internet.

This applies to standard malware as well as rootkits and file infectors.

Streaming updates can now also carry more types of definitions than before. We’re currently doing 350-400 updates a day, which equals to one update in roughly every 3.75 minutes, 24x7, 365 days a year. This is not entirely new for v2014, but we now have really buttoned up the whole streaming update infrastructure to allow for reliable, uninterrupted service. Continuously streaming update (CSU) technology for up-to-minute detections.This includes new, optimized mechanism for collecting data from our sensors. Improved cloud scanning features and crowdsourced analysis of suspicious items.In a way, it brings the whitelisting concept to the consumer AV space. This is a new mode that is recommended especially for novice users (such as your grandmas): it automatically blocks execution of binaries that would normally be deepscreened (Moderate level) or even allows only execution of programs that are well-known to FileRep (Aggressive level). New Hardened mode for stricter lockdown scenarios.DeepScreen is a successor of AutoSandbox, now upgraded with some additional new technologies such as dynamic binary translation and dyna-gen announced earlier. New DeepScreen technology allows avast! to make more intelligent decisions about new/unknown files.This edition is FREE OF CHARGE for non-commercial & home use.Īvast! Free Antivirus 2014 features and improvements: Avast! Free Antivirus represents the best free antivirus protection currently available on the market.

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