Avast AntiVirus Software

The following information came from the Avast website. Avast is free for home use and is accessible by using the Applications key.

Prague, Czech Republic - 29th March 2008 - for immediate release
– ALWIL Software a.s. is pleased to announce the next major release of avast!

 antivirus, avast! 4.8. avast! antivirus 4.8 is a major technology upgrade to the avast! product line, which includes the addition of anti-spyware detection, certified by West Coast Lab’s Checkmark process, and the implementation of anti-rootkit capabilities, all directly from within avast! antivirus.

Eduard Kucera, ALWIL Software a.s. CEO, said of the release, “While only an upgrade of avast!, this version represents a major evolution of the avast! offering to users. Many of our competitors charge extra for anti-spyware or anti-rootkit detection, or don’t add the functionality at all. We don’t think that a partial solution in scanning is a solution at all.” Mr. Kucera continues, “With this upgrade, we have once again shown outstanding innovation in the industry, by adding this functionality to the avast! core scan engine technology.”

avast! antivirus 4.8 is available now for download from
www.avast.com
and is available in three Editions. For non-commercial home use, avast! Home Edition is available free-of-charge. For commercial deployment avast! Professional Edition and for commercial home deployment avast! Professional Family Pack (available for up to ten computers and one Windows Home Server) can be downloaded for a free trial from
www.avast.com
, or directly purchased from the product page, or from any authorized avast! reseller

The more than 50 million current avast! Home Edition or Professional Edition users need only upgrade their software, no need to download again, in most cases this will be fully automatic for most users. Other users can follow the update notification prompt to keep their software up-to-date. All licensed users will receive the program upgrade as part of their subscription (free or paid).

How To Make Avast Even More Accessible

The instructions found on this page will further improve the accessibility of Avast. There are also instructions for Jaws users that will improve Jaw’s ability to read lists in Avast.
How To Make Avast Even More Accessible

Visit The Avast Website Direct Link To Free Download Page

Registering The Free Avast Home Edition

The link below will take you to the correct page to register the Avast free Home Edition. The information we’ve received indicates that graphics are employed and you’ll probably want sighted help. However, we’re also told that a help option exists for the blind and the company seems to do well in providing help.

We received the following information from a subscriber.
If you email AVast tech support at
support@avast.com
about the registration process and explain about being blind and not being able to do the visual verification, they will email a registration code manually withouth the need for going thru the visual verification process.

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