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From AVAST Software:
Avast 4 Home Edition is a free, complete ICSA certified and Secure Computing Magazine awarded antivirus software for home noncommercial use. Avast includes the following components: On Demand Scanner--with skinnable simple interface--just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button; On Access Scanner--special providers to protect the most of available e-mail clients; Instant Messaging--ICQ, Miranda; Network traffic--intrusion detection--lightweight firewall; P2P protection for Kazza, BitTorrent; Web shield--monitors and filter all HTTPtraffic; NNTP Scanner--scans all Usenet Newsgroup traffic and all operations with files on PC; Boot Time Scanner--scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does. True automatic incremental updates are small and fast.
Version 4.7.827 improves detection, lower memory footprint, CPU load and adds new languages to 26 in total.
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All versions:
4.5 starsout of 24,288 votes
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Current version:
4.7 starsout of 489 votes
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"This an easy and fast antivirus product with great features ."
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.7.827
Pros
Good and reliable,safe,and fast.
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"This anti virus is as good if not better than any you pay for"
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.7.827
Pros
The program is light on resouces and easy to use,and it doesn't miss a thing.
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"GREAT!!"
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.7.827
Pros
I'll put it like this,
It saved my pc where norton anti. could not! You will need a firewall, if you dont already have one. Other than that, you will be safe.
Cons
none
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"superior protection, easy on the system, prompt updates"
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.7.827
Pros
Never bogs down the system as do famous commercial products, yet is every bit as adequate. A real joy! Almost daily updates!
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"Excellent quality, effective, low on resources, for novices and advanced users"
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.7.827
Pros
** Effective: this picks up everything, even more, than McAfee and CA/Etrust. I have used them both, but ended up discarding both those softwares which i had ALREADY PAID FOR from those 2 companies, in favour of AVAST due to its effectiveness, LOW on RESOURCES, STABILITY compared to the 2 security giants above!
*** Daily automatic signature updates: Unlike Mcafee who leave your PC exposed for several days at a time, sometimes 4 or 5, and always on weekends...so virus writers know when to strike!
*** Interface: Good for novices and advances users because there are two relevant interfaces to choose from.
*** Simple: choice of very simple settings / view for novices, no need to get under the hood.
*** Customisable: Only for advanced users, they can configure to their heart's content.
***Advanced Heuristics: to help detect new viruses not yet picked up.
Cons
***The Seperate icon for imaging your system in the background, in order to be able to recover, it if ever a virus strikes, might be confusing to novices and should be automatically integrated into the main icon...although users can choose to do that themselves. So not a major deal, just a nice to have.
*** A future improvement would be to include anti-spyware integrated. However, I use the free Windows defender for this, so not a major deal, more a nice to have.
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"Free antivirus that is better than some paid ones."
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.7.827
Pros
found and cleaned all viruses on my system that norton could not detect.super easy and fast install.easy on system.
FREEEEE!!
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"powerful remover, NOT FREE!!"
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.7.827
Pros
very power software that can remove what other softwares couldn't.
Cons
Disapointed. After installing this software, I found out that it is a demo with a 60 day trial. IT'S NOT FREE!!!!!
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"I am a home user and it makes my PC on surfing the web"
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.7.827
Pros
Its very complete. Take care of my PC online, my mail and the web pages I visit. Ans its free. 4 of 5 stars.
Cons
My friend has to told me how i got the license for one-year free usage. But come on, its free so i waited the pasword.
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"Easy to use works GREAT"
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.7.827
Pros
Found 2 viruses that my last program did not!!!!
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"one of the best and free."
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.7.827
Pros
very good detection. timely updates
Cons
slows some functions
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