I just got my hands on Avast Antivirus from
http://www.avast.com/i_idt_153.html and i have to say its pretty damn good for a freebie (for home users).
Main features
ANTIVIRUS KERNEL
- Almost 100% detection
- Outstanding performance
- Reasonable memory requirements
- ICSA certified
USER INTERFACE
- Memory test during the program startup
- Very intuitive Simple User Interface
- Testing whole disks or selected folders
- Working with the scan results - actions with infected files
- Virus encyclopedia
- Log Viewer
- Various appearances - skin support
- Running from Explorer context menu
- Antivirus screen-saver
UPDATES
- The system of incremental updates guarantees low traffic
- The updates can be completely automatic
RESIDENT PROTECTION
- Standard Shield protects the file system
- Generic SMTP/POP3/IMAP4 scanner
- Specific MS Outlook plugin
- Heuristic analysis in e-mail modules
REPAIRING
- Limited capability of direct repair (especially macroviruses)
- Repairing files using automatically generated Virus Recovery Database (VRDB)
PLATFORMS
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Windows Me
- Windows NT 4
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
Currently i cant fault it - seems better than Norton Anitvirus for me.