Installing the 50mb installer files is a breeze. It is also up-to-date, with the software regularly updating itself as well as its virus definitions. Although it has limitations compared to the paid version, it does all the essential tasks of an antivirus tool. In January 2010, the company released the current title Avast! Free, replacing the previous Avast! Home which was free for home use. As a testament to its capabilities, the antivirus is currently registered to more than 130 million users around the world. This is AVAST.' Powerful protection trusted by millions'Īvast is among the most popular anti-virus software in the world at present. The guide is titled 'How to Install Avast as a Lightweight Antivirus'.įinally it's incredibly easy to confuse Avast with AVG, Avira, Av-a-banana etc. This speeds up working out the somewhat-confusing options you're being offered by this installer. If you need to get further back in time, there is a 2019 version at uploaded as 'avast_internet_security_setup_offline'.Īlso, take a look at the Major Geeks install guide, online elsewhere. This version seems to cure the earlier 'UI failed to load' bug which affected thousands of users. It will still continue to work, so far as I can see.

If you do let it go online briefly it will get the latest definitions, but will also try its best to up-sell you with scary warnings. That is why this file will be so useful to some. Which can be a pain if your old offline asteroid-tracking servers etc needs this vital software to be re-installed, and yet the original installer file is nowhere to be found.

Yet Avast appear to offer no old versions. After version 21.x Avast's later installers refuse to install on some older Windows 7 PCs. I can vouch that it installs nicely on an old Windows 7 offline server. This is the full + offline installer version (August 2020).

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