Software Update: Avast Antivirus 2014 9.0.2021

Alwil Software has released the fourth major update to its Avast 2014 security program. The program is available in the free Free Antivirus, and the paid Pro Antivirus and Internet Security versions. In addition, there is Premier, which has additional management functions, such as the possibility to remotely take over a PC and possibly erase the hard disk. In version 2014, the various components have been improved, the web browser can be placed in safe mode for online shopping and banking, and a self-starting CD or USB stick can be made from the program to scan the computer offline. The main improvements made in this release can be found below.

Avast 2014 R4 (9.0.2021)

We’re introducing several important pieces in this release:

• We’ve improved the security of the product – eg security of our processes (guarded by the self defense component), we handle the conditions for the Guest account better, we are very sensitive for any incorrect inputs from the user with a negative impact on the system’s security, or, we tuned the import settings functionality not to allow bypassing any protections
• We’ve added “resume” support in the setup component, so some of you should notice smoother downloading – depends on a “quality” of your connection (mainly during the program update where the amount of data is quite big)
• We’ve included a new antispam library (IS/Premier editions) for better accuracy of our anti-spam module
• We’ve put warnings during the installation process if there could be some obvious problems resulting in not 100% functionality after the installation (missing admin rights, insufficient space on disk, etc.)
• We’ve added ability to disable promotion popups (in PRO/IS/Premier editions). We strongly believe that our additional products can be valuable for you, but we also respect your will not to be bothered by such offers.
• We’ve performed a static analysis of our code resulting in many fixes (but don’t worry, nothing was critical, just a small tuning
• General bugfixing – this covers a lot of stability & performance changes in all components (but the main focus was traditionally on the network & engine components)

The following downloads are available:
Avast Free Antivirus 2014 R4 – 9.0.2021
Avast Pro Antivirus 2014 R4 – 9.0.2021
Avast Internet Security 2014 R4 – 9.0.2021
Avast Premier 2014 R4 – 9.0.2021