avast! Home Edition > Version History
Version History
avast! Home Edition
This shows you how often avast! Home Edition was updated with us over the past few months. Whenever available, we also include additional information for each update (new features, changes etc.).
version 4.8.1296 - posted on Nov 27, 2008
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version 4.8.1290 - posted on Nov 19, 2008
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version 4.8.1282 - posted on Nov 13, 2008
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version 4.8.1229 - posted on Jul 24, 2008
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version 4.8.1227 - posted on Jul 21, 2008
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version 4.8.1201 - posted on May 16, 2008
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version 4.8.1195 - posted on May 13, 2008
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version 4.8.1169 - posted on Mar 31, 2008
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version 4.7.1098 - posted on Dec 05, 2007
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version 4.7.1043 - posted on Oct 09, 2007
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version 4.7.1029 - posted on Jul 28, 2007
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version 4.7.1001 - posted on May 01, 2007
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version 4.7.982 - posted on Apr 19, 2007
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version 4.7.981 - posted on Apr 14, 2007
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version 4.7.892 - posted on Sep 26, 2006
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version 4.7.871 - posted on Sep 12, 2006
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version 4.7.869 - posted on Aug 07, 2006
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version 4.7.844 - posted on Jun 01, 2006
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version 4.7.826 - posted on Apr 28, 2006
- solved problem with installation on Windows NT 4.0 systems
fixed the Program Settings menu item in the avast tray icon menu
fixed a bug in the data storage that was preventing it from working correctly if the avast folder pathname contained non-Latin characters
solved a rare problem that could eventually cause even a crash of the OS during boot (Windows XP)
further enhanced compatibility with the latest Windows Vista builds
version 4.7.817 - posted on Apr 20, 2006
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version 4.6.763 - posted on Jan 28, 2006
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version 4.6.744 - posted on Dec 23, 2005
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version 4.6.739 - posted on Dec 03, 2005
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version 4.6.731 - posted on Nov 13, 2005
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version 4.6.691 - posted on Jul 11, 2005
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version 4.6.665 - posted on May 24, 2005
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version 4.6.652 - posted on Apr 20, 2005
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version 4.6.623 - posted on Mar 13, 2005
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version 4.6.603 - posted on Feb 20, 2005
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version 4.5.549 - posted on Dec 04, 2004
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version 4.5.546 - posted on Nov 30, 2004
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version 4.5.523 - posted on Nov 16, 2004
- Added Intrusion Detection, improved E-mail & Archive operations, added new languages
version 4.1.412 - posted on Jun 12, 2004
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version 4.1.396 - posted on Apr 27, 2004
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version 4.1.389 - posted on Apr 23, 2004
- avast! 4 Home is available in English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japaneese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak and Spanish languages
check http://www.avast.com/i_idt_1016.html to download avast! in your language.
version 4.1.389 - posted on Apr 22, 2004
- fixed a bug that was causing incorrect version of VPS file to be inserted to emails
solved boot-time scan problem with latest VPS files: "avworkInitialize returned 42003"global memory segments are now non-inheritable which should solve respective problems with on-line VPS updates without restart
solved freezing of the program while displaying some question dialogs in the Japanese version
The heuristics module for the Internet Mail provider now adheres to the scan settings, i.e. if scanning of inbound mail is disabled, for instance, even the heuristics module for inbound mail is disabled
deleting of infected files from the virus dialog now deletes the files on next reboot only when it s really necessary (i.e. if the file is really locked)
Standard Shield for Win9x now doesn t trap read file access initiated by the Internet Mail module anymore
the file clnr0.dll (Virus Cleaner) is now being extracted to the avast! data folder, instead of system TEMP
added support for Windows Security Center in Windows XP SP2
fixed a bug causing occasional substitution of a dot with an equation sign in message tags added by the Internet Mail module
added new language versions: French, Slovak and Russian
version 4.1.335 - posted on Jan 22, 2004
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version 4.1.304 - posted on Dec 02, 2003
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version 4.1.280 - posted on Oct 15, 2003
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version 4.1 - posted on Sep 19, 2003
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version 4.1.260 - posted on Sep 12, 2003
- new Win32 EXE packers are supported: UPX, PeShield, PeProtect, AsPack
new file archive formats are supported: ACE, ARC, ZOO, BZIP2
new resident provider to protect IM programs (Windows/MSN Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, mIRC, Trillian)
new resident provider to protect P2P programs (Kazaa, KazaaLite, DirectConnect, DC++, WinMX, LimeWire, BearShare, BitTorrent)
new area to scan
AutoStart programs
integrated avast! Virus Cleaner is able to completely remove the most common virus infections from the computer
Internet Mail provider supports multiple SMTP servers now
version 4.0.235 - posted on Jul 05, 2003
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version 4.0.229 - posted on Jun 22, 2003
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version 4.0.211 - posted on Jun 11, 2003
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version 4.0.202 - posted on Apr 18, 2003
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version 4.0 - posted on Jan 16, 2003
- support for inserting multilingual notes into clean messages added in AVMAISRV.EXE program (see MAIL.TXT for details)
