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- Price: Free to try (60-day trial); $39.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 98
- Date added: August 19, 2009
- Total Downloads: 5,427,790
- Downloads last week: 92,483
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 448 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Avast Professional Edition skillfully scans your PC and several programs for viruses, although configuring it is not for the faint of heart.
Immediately after installation, the program asks if you want to schedule an antivirus scan of your local hard drives at system start. You'll notice two icons in your system tray after installing Avast: one to configure the functions and another to activate the virus recovery database.
Well-designed, Avast scans executables, inbound and outbound e-mails, and P2P programs such as Kazaa, Limewire, and Morpheus. Instant messages received from several messenger programs are inspected for harmful viruses as well. The program was able to block URLs and common file operations such as renaming and deleting. We appreciated the sensitivity adjusters to get protection to desired levels including normal, high, or customized.
We must say this application did slow down our system while surfing and using other programs. Many of its configurations require intermediate know-how or better. Fortunately, it has a generous 60-day trial. Don't let the steep learning curve turn you off; Avast safeguards your system at optimum levels.
Publisher's description
From Alwil Software :Avast 4 Professional Edition is a complete ICSA & Checkmark certified antivirus, Checkmark certified anti-spyware & anti-rootkit software package for corporate and advanced home use. Avast Professional Edition includes an on demand scanner with two user interfaces, a skinnable simple interface: just select what you want to scan and in which way and press the play button, an enhanced user interface: Outlook like UI allows users to set any feature of Avast, prepare and run tasks, store and check task results, on access scanner: special providers to protect: most available e-mail clients, instant messaging: ICQ or Miranda, network traffic: lightweight firewall, P2P protection for Kazaa, BitTorrent, Web shield: all HTTP traffic, script blocker. avast Professional Edition is available in 32 languages. Small, true incremental, updates are downloaded and installed automatically.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.8.1351 features: Uni brings improvements in the malware and rootkit scanners and an enhanced setup experience.
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- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 448 votes
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1351
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1351
Pros: Easy to set , FREE , fast updating
Cons: I used this product in my work and i was satisfied until real danger attack our domain.Then i saw the different between free soft . and Kaspersky.I .S.
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1351
Pros: Updates automaticaly simple user interface. boot time scan.
Cons: no real cons.
Summary: This is one of the best AV programs I have ever used/
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1351
"I have Avast Pro including on my WHS for one low price"
Pros: With Avast I am constantly aware if any of my family PC could be not protected or infected that include the Windows Home Server, from the Windows Home Server I could managae update and virus scan and see their historic at the same time.
Cons: Not that I could find
Summary: Well donne executed and highly customable interface, easier to use with express setup or advanced mode also, cover all my PC from XP to Vista to Win 7 Pro all work in a very reliable way.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1351
Pros: The Avast found viruses that none of the others did. I started with the free version, then upgraded all 4 of my home computers. It came highly recommended to me from my instructor in the Security+ class I took and I have not been sorry since.
Cons: The initial run took 5 hours but I have almost a TB of files. It found over 12 viruses hidden, so the negative turned out to be a positive.
Summary: I like the interface and the options that you have for the quality of security you want. The programming of the daily checks were very easy and intuitive.
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