- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (60-day trial); $39.95 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: January 06, 2005
- Total Downloads: 1,611,065
- Downloads last week: 95,047
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A newer version of Avast Professional Edition is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 454 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!Professional Edition is a complete ICSA certified antivirus software for your company. It obtained VB100% awards in 2002/4 Virus Bulletin comparative reviews. avast! scans for viruses, worms and Trojans: On Demand--with two user interfaces, during boot time and on access. It protects e-mail, ICQ, mIRC, Kazaa. It maintains Virus Chest. True incremental updates based on iAVS technology updates twice a week virus definition file. Version 4.5 added intrusion detection, transparent email (SMTP/POP3/IMAP4) scanner, support for 64-bit Windows, TCP scanning daemon, and new languages.
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User reviews of Avast Professional Edition 4.5
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 454 votes
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2 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.5
Pros: what is avast antivirus , its not antivirus its just a game for kids. i use kaspersky,nod32,antivir,norton,pc-cillin,arcavir,etrust and many of antiviruses, all of them better than avast antivirus. Dont lose your time with avast.
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4 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.5
Pros: It makes cool noises when a virus is found! Although I miss the old Avast32 when Arnold Swarznegger would announce, "Attention, There is virus affected to your computer"..Or something like that.
Cons: Why would someone pay for this when Avast always has an upgrade/new version before the trial period is up? Thats beside the point. My main problem is that Avast uses a very small virus definition. (About 22,000 Sigs.)And the last I heard Avast failed the June 2004 Virus Bulletin, This could have been due to a "false positive" But I know one thing...Norton, Kaspersky, NOD32 and Trend Micro did not fail the test..I'm just telling the truth and I dont "Work" for Symantec.
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1 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.5
Pros: i feel im very sorry to use avast antivirus. its not detect any viruses,After 3 month i uninstall avast then i put nod32 so nod32 detect 19 viruses in my computer and delete it. so dont download avast its very bad program.
Cons: very bad every bad every bad avast close your company its better to you and its better for the people coz there is many of antiviruses company better better than avast antivirus. never come back to avast.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.5
"Re:better tyhan norton, mcafee, etc"
Pros: ok, this is no internet security program, but at least this updatesd once a week. Mcafee is too hard to configure, and norton hardly ever updates. This wont eat your resources either like most do. Try this program, If you want decent virus protection.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.5
"Highly Recommended Anti-virus"
Pros: Well i was using Norton and Mcafee for years,but still years they did had some problems on my system some thing or the other prob.Those AV's had limited combility with the 3rd pary softwares.But one day i had check the rating of Avast! in home edtion,i didn't belive that it went to more than 90% in Cnet.And i chacked the Avast site and checked it's advanced functionality of the AV,it was rather unexpectly cool!!functions like it had the Screensaver scan function so it scan's the viruses in back ground and schedualing the boot time scan thses 2 function i have not seen in any other AV's.I have been using for past 2 months the Professional version.And i don't why the Cnet didn't rate this product?It's must to rate a product like Avast!I high recommended anyone this anti-virus.Don't try norton and mcafee and waste ur time.Avast has a Forum that u can post any prob all the members ar ready to help u.where i haven't seen any Forum's on other AV's product.
Cons: It's not that easy to use Avast!i mean the user interface is not that simple to use,for a novoice user.Other wise it's fine..
Better check the help file of Avast before u use.
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