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avast! Windows Home Server Edition

Install and forget (we've got you covered)

  • Best-in-class protection against viruses, malware, and spyware
  • Regular updates to our award-winning, ICSA-Certified scanning engine
  • Easy to install and manage all avast! installations on your home network

Product name

Number of licenses
Windows Home Server
1 year 2 years 3 years

Why choose this product?

avast! Windows Home Server Edition combines award-winning, high-end technologies to work toward one goal: to protect your home server and data against viruses. It's the best solution for any Windows Home Server, including: HP Mediasmart Server, Fujitsu Siemens SCALEO Home Server, Iomega HomeCenter Server, Medion Home Server, Tranquil Harmony Home Server, and Velocity Micro NetMagix HomeServer, or those running on machines such as Acer, Advantec, Gateway, and LaCie.

On-demand scanning

Makes scheduled or ad-hoc scans of your system volumes.

Virus Chest

Provides a safe storage place for infected or suspected files, where they cannot harm your system.

Full control

Integrates seamlessly with the WHS Console, so you can set avast! to work the way you want.

Be green with a super-light footprint

Our award-winning speed and effective technology leave a minimal resource footprint.

To run avast! Windows Home Server Edition your PC must meet the following criteria.

Operating Systems Supported

  • Windows Home Server 1

Minimum Hardware Requirements

  • Pentium 3 Processor
  • 256 MB RAM
  • 370 MB of free hard disk space

Please also note that avast! will not run properly if you have other antivirus software on your PC.

Antivirus and anti-spyware engine

Innovative scanning engine protects against viruses, spyware, and other malicious agents.

Heuristics engine

Proactively finds malware undetectable with normal definitions and virus signatures.

Real-time anti-rootkit protection

Prevents stealth malware (‘rootkits’) that, when loaded by the computer’s OS, are invisible to ordinary scanners.

Intelligent Scanner

Reduces the number of required file scans up to 80% through a white list of safe applications. Files identified as safe are not rescanned unless they change.

Green computing

Leaves a minimal “footprint” due to its efficient and effective technology.

Multi-threaded scanning optimization

Allows the splitting of large files between cores, which accelerates the scanning process on new multi-core CPUs and makes avast! run even faster.

Scheduled scanning

Allows users to define the scan time and files to be scanned.

Code emulator

Uses dynamic translation (a method much faster than traditional emulation) for both generic unpacking and within the heuristics engine.

Smart virus definition updates

Incremental updating minimizes the size of regular update files.

Fast application of updates

New format for the virus definition file means faster updates and reduces demand on CPU/memory, for uninterrupted computing.

Potentially unwanted programs detection

detects potentially unwanted programs, such as remote admin tools and commercial key loggers. Custom rules can be set for dealing with these types of programs.

Low resource usage

Stays light on system resources.

Full on-access scanning

Scans files as you access them, to make sure they are safe from infection.

On-demand scanning

Makes scheduled or ad-hoc scans of your system volumes.

Virus Chest

Provides a safe storage for infected or suspected files, where they cannot harm your system.

Fully automatic updating

Keeps program and virus definitions current.

Full scanner preference control

Enables you to set avast! to work in the way you want.

WHS Console

Integrates seamlessly with WHS functionality.

Easy management

Helps maintain all avast! installations running on your home network.

You can download the latest version of avast! WHS Edition from this page. This product will also work as a 60-day trial version.

Avast WHS Edition installer comes in two versions. First, as a MSI package that is designed to be used to install the product directly from the Windows Home Server Console. And second, as an executable file that can be run directly on the WHS machine e.g. by means of a remote desktop connection.

The MSI option is suitable especially for users who don't connect to the WHS any other way than by means of the WHS Console, and is the prefered way of installation (especially on HP MediaSmart systems where system security policies are preconfigured so that it is not easy to run executable programs downloaded from the Internet).

To use the MSI installer, follow these steps:

  1. Download the MSI installation package and place it to the WHSERVERSoftwareAdd-ins folder (replace WHSERVER by the name of your WHS machine).
  2. Start the WHS Console.
  3. Click the Settings button, and navigate to the Add-ins page.
  4. On the Available page, you should now see the entry for avast! Antivirus. Click the Install button.

In case you later decide to uninstall the program, you can use that via the WHS Console as well (avast! WHS Edition will have an entry in the list of installed add-ins, from which it can be uninstalled).

Trial version

* avast! WHS Edition is currently available in the following languages: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.