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16 out of 20 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.8.1201.80516
Pros: After using AVG 8.0 Free, I decided to move to avast! 4.8 due to AVG's "avgrsx.exe"'s heavy memory usage. avast! also proves to be quite effective with it's rootkit, spyware, and virus scanner bundled all in one. It's processes take up at most 20MB of RAM. What I liked best about this program is the flexible options that enable users to configure the program to their own likings. Also, avast! offers a variety of Resident Shields from IM, P2P, Web, and Network shields. It's scanner will take some time, but it offers three different modes of scanning. The updates are quite fast and skins are available.
Cons: None.
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13 out of 21 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.8.1201.80516
Pros: I am currently using Avast Home Edition which truly a great anti-virus. It comes with some amazing features:
Internet Mail:
- Scan outbound mail [SMTP]
- Scan inbound mail [POP3]
- Scan inbound mail [IMAP]
- Scan inbound news [NNTP]
- Scan outbound news [NNTP]
- Heuristic sensitivity: medium
Instant Messengers:
- MSN Messenger
- ICQ
- Trillian Messenger
Network Shield:
- Show messages
Outlook:
- Scan inbound and outbound mail
- Scan unread messages on open
- Heuristic sensitivity: medium
P2P Shield:
- Kazaa & KazaaLite
- Direct Connect
- Direct Connect++
Filesystem:
- Scan selected files on write
- Scan selected files on open
Web Shield:
- Scan HTTP traffic
Could you ask for a better Anti-Virus?
Cons: It has no match for Norton anti-virus but still a decent anti-virus.
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1 out of 6 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.8.1201.80516
"Not only the detection rate counts!"
Pros: According to AV- Comparatives Avast earned a advanced plus on demand detection of virus and malware in February 2008. That is a fine reward.
But I do not think that this is the main rational argument for considering Avast. Some other anti-virus software scores in this regard even somewhat better.
The main arguments for using Avast, apart of being free, is all its special features. What comparatives and Virus Bulletin does not consider are just those features and they are not either supposed to consider them. They consider mainly only two things and those are the detection rates and that the software does not make so called false positives. Those considerations are extremely important but, please, do not consider them as the whole truth but only a very important part of the whole truth.
Also consider those very important features Avast has such as resident protection, P2P shields, web shield, boot time scan, virus chest (which protects in a vault, against malicious attacks, certain files which are very important for the operating system), network shield (a lightweight firewall) and other features.
In other words, no good having a good detection rate if the software does not also have a good capability of detecting malware and not just in the laboratory, but also in the real practical world.
Alwil is the company which makes Avast and Alwil is indeed a very serious company. It does not nag you with all sorts of ads asking you to buy, buy and buy. This makes a difference and actually tells you something. It tells you that they are serious. They make a software which is considered to protect you in the real world. They have seriously considered all those features when they made Avast.
Apart of all this it is, as mentioned, a free software which also protects you from spyware and rootkits. It has a lot of skins to choose from which makes it in fact really special and attractive. Those properties are also very important.
Cons: None!
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13 out of 18 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.8.1201.80516
"New update speeded my computer up"
Pros: Very secure software, now with an anti-spyware and anti-rootkit built in. "To nigc""Avast! Does not need a scheduler for scans, because the real time protection is very fast and prevents viruses entering from the internet at all, inserting a scan scheduler would take more space and make it bad"
I have just updated to this small new update, it has made my computer go as fast as when I never had Anti-Virus, ALWIL, Great job on the new update now i am secure and fast!!!
Avast! Beats AVG, and look @ Bangsonpc.com 's test results for Avast! vs AVG, I tested the results on a virtual pc and i got the same results other than now avast 4.8 blocks all viruses and some spyware
Anyone who uses AVG/Norton is crazy because Avast! 4.8 beats AVG 8 and AVG 7.5 and all Norton products and its completely free(There is not any nagware in Avast Home(Unlike Avira which nags you everytime you startup) Also Avast! 4.8 Home Does not disable any features when you are using it(Unlike AVG which cuts off email protection after 3 days)
Cons: None
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5 out of 10 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.8.1201.80516
Pros: it work and protect my pc form every threat.
Cons: none really avast rules !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^_^
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