Avast Home Edition 4.6 User Reviews

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• 104 out of 130 people found this review helpful

  5 stars

  Version: Avast Home Edition 4.6

  "Very good protection...for FREE!"

  by goldengreeke on February 22, 2006

  Pros: Avast protects your whole computer, including your E-mail and instant messenger. It has many scan options, the full system scan, files and folders, p2p scan, and a boot time scan. Seems to work as well as a lot of the virus protection on the market that you would have to pay for. I recommend Avast Home Edition and give it 5 stars and two thumbs up!

  Cons: Doesn't include a firewall, but there are plenty of free ones available out there.

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• 74 out of 102 people found this review helpful

  5 stars

  Version: Avast Home Edition 4.6

  "Excellent!"

  by computer_genius on May 15, 2005

  Pros: The best! I have been using it for months, though mine is Pro. This antivirus is great! They give it to you for free, and it does all the stuff that the big time a/v's do. It's also skinnable, which is not common in a/v's. It is very effective too. I used to have Norton A/V last year, and it didn't detect any virus. Then I was suspicious. I downloaded this and it found one. All my defs are the latest. I was so satisfied with it that I just HAD TO upgrade. This is the best! Get it now! Or get the Pro version!

  Cons: It doesn't have the script blocking option unlike in the Pro. But I don't know since the last time I used Home Edition was v4.5 and I'm using Pro v4.6 now.

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• 31 out of 40 people found this review helpful

  5 stars

  Version: Avast Home Edition 4.6

  "Best anti-virus defence out there"

  by Andrew932 on June 4, 2005

  Pros: Has multiple options, Web Shield, Standard Shield, P2P Shield (Protection against nearly all P2P programmes) Outlook/Exchange protection, Network Shield (Mini Firewall which works with standard ones) Internet Mail and Instant messenger protection.

  Great update engine

  It's free

  Cons: Don't particulary like the desktop and system tray icon

  Quite a large programme compared to AVG And Anti-vir

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• 31 out of 40 people found this review helpful

  5 stars

  Version: Avast Home Edition 4.6

  "One of the best free antivirus programs around."

  by downloadfreak on April 25, 2005

  Pros: I really like avast! The installation is easy and clean, updates are very easy to install, and has many benefits for a free version. Thank you avast! For keeping your programs free. This program is a must have, if don't want to pay for anti-virus programs.

  Cons: Scanning is quite long.

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• 7 out of 10 people found this review helpful

  5 stars

  Version: Avast Home Edition 4.6

  "Simply the best but .."

  by Anonymous220 on December 12, 2005

  Pros: The best free antivirus edition out there, this one even better compared with AVG,nod32 and antivir, but it's sensitive to some operating system, depends on ur harddisk. I personally using kaspersky antivirus it's the best but which is not free. Get this, u wont regret because it's really a good antivirus.

  Cons: Maybe will conflict with other antivirus.If you wanted to install two av in a pc, do not install this.

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