avast! Home Edition -System Requirements
Please note: hardware configurations described below represent the minimum recommended system specification for that operating system.
For a computer running Windows® 95/98/Me:
486 Processor, 32MB RAM and 100MB of free hard disk space.
For a computer running Windows® NT® 4.0:
486 Processor, 24MB RAM and 100MB of free hard disk space and Service Pack 3 (or higher) installed
For a computer running Windows® 2000/XP® Workstation (Not Server):
Pentium class Processor, 64MB RAM (128MB recommended) and 100MB of free hard disk space
For a computer running Windows® XP® 64-bit Edition:
An AMD Athlon64, Opteron or Intel EM64T-enabled Pentium 4 / Xeon processor, 128MB RAM (256MB recommended) and 100MB of free hard disk space
For a computer running Windows® Vista:
Pentium 4 processor, 512MB RAM and 100MB of free hard disk space
The program itself requires about 60MB of hard disk space; the remainder of the recommended space is reserved for the virus recovery database file and its index (VRDB, also known as the "integrity database" from the previous version).
A functional MS Internet Explorer 4 or higher is required for the program to work.
This product cannot be installed on a server operating system (Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 Server families).
Note: The operating systems Windows 95/98/Me/NT4 will be supported until the end of 2009.

CNET Download.com has awarded avast! Home Edition the coveted five star rating. More information in press release.

avast! Home Edition received the budget tip award in the Windows Vista: Das Offizielle Magazin 05/2007.

avast! Home Edition is Winner in the security software category. More information on PC World pages.


The Softpedia portal has published an avast! Home review. You may read the third party review of avast! Home Edition on the Softpedia pages

Denmark PC World awarded avast! 4.7 Home. You can find more information in Denmark PC World (in Danish)






