Avast Free Antivirus is a free for non-commercial use anti-virus package. Avast is one of the most well known packages for regularly scanning a computer system looking for virus and malware infections. The scanning is comprehensive and fast. The Pro version offers other features like data protection, email spam protection and other benefits. Quarantine and deletion options when finding virus infections. The package also scans the computer for updates to software packages which helps to reduce the risk of security problems with out of date software that has not been updated to the latest version that already plugged the security hole.

Avast Free Antivirus Key Features:

• Leading anti-virus software protection package
• Regular virus definition updates for virus scanning
• Checks for out of date programs too
• Fast scanning
• High detection rate
• Virus deletion and quarantine options
• Requires Windows

Avast Free Antivirus is an anti-virus program for Windows with a high detection rate.