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- Price: Free to try (60-day trial); $39.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: August 19, 2009
- Total Downloads: 5,605,288
- Downloads last week: 96,550
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 451 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 451 votes
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1351
"Very good Product. Superb Protection Silent yet Perfect"
Pros: Whilst avast is silent. Hiding away in the background. It's never off guard. Always scanning quietly without affecting performance. Overall, it's been the best Anti Virus I've ever used. Don't let the stylish display fool you, Its incredible.
Cons: The virus alert sounds like a bomb raid alarm - Ear Piercing. And the lack of firewall.
Summary: If you wanted a very handy, very quiet, very effective, low performance draining anti virus. Avast! should be your first choice. No other anti virus performs to the standard that Avast can offer. Will remain my Anti Virus permanently now.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1351
Pros: It really performs great in resources and detection.
Cons: Lack of firewall, but it will be in the avast 5 version. so be happy
Summary: I used this for 3 years and really very happy about its performance
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1351
Pros: easy in use and active protection
Cons: sound alert
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1351
"It stays updated and give superior protection"
Pros: It has protected my computer from a number of viruses and worms. I always know it has the latest updates to protect my computer.
Cons: I can't think of any negative about the product.
Summary: I like its accessibility and ease of use in do scans and quick checks for viruses, etc. I especially appreciate Avast because it is not complicated and difficult to understand.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
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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