Avast Home edition is a popular freeware antivirus solution for Windows, Mac, Linux and PDA devices. Avast has professional and freeware editions of their antivirus application just like AVG and Avira. Avast 4.8, the attest stable release of this application is protecting millions of computers world wide. As per Avast there are around 90 million people using Avast Home edition. Features of Avast Home edition includes antivirus, antispyware, anti rootkit, email-instant messenger and free updates. Home edition is suitable for those who are not always connected to internet and make transactions online. Avast recently started with beta testing of their  version 5 set of products. They have released Avast 5 home edition that you can download here.

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