v9.0 [Sep 4, 2013]
- DeepScreen technology allows avast! to make more intelligent decisions about new/unknown files
- Hardened mode for stricter lockdown scenarios
- Improved cloud scanning features and crowdsourced analysis of suspicious items
- Continuously streaming update (CSU) technology for up-to-minute detections
- Improved cleaning of malware
- Web browser plugins featuring comprehensive security ratings, protection against malware, phishing and typosquatting sites and Do-Not-Track (DNT) functionality for improved anonymity on the Internet
- SafeZone for more secure online shopping and banking
- Rescue disk - allow users to create a bootable CD or flash disk with Avast on it
- A streamlined user interface for simplified navigation and more user comfort
- Control and manage all protected devices directly from the Avast console (through integrated the avast! Account)
- Dramatic reduction in product size and memory footprint
- Faster scanning thanks to optimized scanning engine
- Completely rewritten setup/updater that makes the installation and upgrade process faster, easier and more reliable
- Firewall has been redesigned from scratch to allow for better compatibility with latest Windows, better performance and full support for IPv6
- Network protection component tuning & compatibility (WFP technology on Win8+)
- Various improvement in the Software Updater and Browser Cleanup tool
- Full Windows 8.1 compatibility
- Improved general AV performance and stability, including security fixes
