Avast Free Antivirus: how to install, a user guide
Avast Free Antivirus is a software program available for free download from Avast official website. Probably you have tried and tested many antivirus programs in the past but still looking for some good one, which may protect your PC from viruses and online threats. Avast free antivirus free version comes with anti-spyware which makes it a great antivirus to use.
When you download avast free antivirus, it not only protect your PC, rather scans links when you search for something using any search engine, bing, ask, Google, yahoo. Online threats may also attack your computer when you click an email from an unknown source. Avast scans your emails before you read them and verifies if they are safer to open and does not contain any sort of root kits, malware or spyware. Avast anti-spam keeps unsolicited emails out of your inbox.
Like many other antiviruses, Avast does not takes too much system memory and thus not slows down your system when you work with heavy programs like a movie maker, edit videos and heavy pixel images. Avast have nearly 2 million user base worldwide. You can download free Avast for 37 world languages. Avast free anti virus has all the features that all other anti viruses has like web, IM, e-mail, P2P and network shields, boot-time scanning, and blocker.
Avast free anti viruses is deployed for home uses aka personal users. You can not use Avast free version for commercial purposes, though for business you can get trial version and if satisfied order it from Avast official website. Avast free antivirus you can download and install in your computer as trial version for 30 days, however, if your Avast experience is satisfied you can register your Avast product with Avast official website and get it free for one year. Then you need to re-register your Avast program every year. Don’t worry; Avast sends you emails before Avast free antivirus expires. Latest version of Avast free antivirus comes with 14 month license by default.
Avast free antivirus does not takes much from your system resources. Following are essential requirements to keep Avast free antivirus running on your PC-
Hardware Requirements
- 200 MB of free storage
- 128 MB virtual memory installed on your system
- A PIII or higher processor
Software Requirements
- Windows OS
- Windows Services Pack 2 or higher
Before you install Avast free antivirus on your PC, uninstall any other antivirus program that you already have, else Avast utilities will not perform properly.
Download and installation of Avast free is as easy as installing any PC game or other software. Here is step wise guide how you should install Avast free antivirus on your PC.
- Visit Avast official website, click on For Home tab
- Look for free antivirus on the page and click on download button corresponding to it.
- Avast download will start, a window will pop out asking where you wish to save your avast free antivirus, choose your location. Your file will save as setup_av_free.exe
- As soon download completes look for setup_av_free.exe double click on it and installation will begin. If you are directed to User Account Control click Yes / Continue and installation will take off.
- For couple of seconds you will see a message, the set up process copy the installation files on your computer.
- Avast Set Up Wizard will appear, chose your preferred language in the dropdown menu box and click on next button.
- You will see welcome screen, here you can chose if you wish to participate in Avast community, check if YES, and check custom installation if you wish to install only certain Avast utilities. Tough you are suggested to install all utilities that Avast free antivirus program offers and click on Next button for Express Installation.
- Another window will appear asking you if you wish to install google chrome as your web browser. Click Yes or NO according to your choice.
- Now Avast system wizard will come into display creating system restore points and installation progress line usually green in color will appear. Installation progress will take couple of minutes; it will depend on your system speed.
- As soon installation completes click Finish
Now your system is protected with reliable and efficient Avast free antivirus added with anti-spyware.
Download: AVAST Antivirus.
