Avast Professional Edition 4.6

• Editor's Rating:

  4.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  4.0 stars (out of 397 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  1,611,065

• Operating Systems:

  Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98

• Additional Requirements:

  Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

• Limitations:

  60-day trial

• Date Added:

  May 18, 2005

• Previous Versions:

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Publisher's description of Avast Professional Edition 4.6

Avast Professional Edition is a complete ICSA certified antivirus software for your company. Avast Professional Edition includes ‘On Demand’ scanner with two user interfaces. Skinnable simple interface--just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the ‘Play’ button. Enhanced user interface--Outlook like UI allows user to set any feature of Avast, prepare and run tasks, store and check task's results. ‘On Access’ scanner--special providers to protect: the most of available e-mail clients, Instant Messaging--ICQ or Miranda, Network traffic--lightweight firewall, P2P protection for Kazza, BitTorrent, Web shield--all HTTP traffic, Script Blocker.

Version 4.6 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

Editor's review of Avast Professional Edition 4.6

• 4.0 stars

• "Make viruses walk the plank with Avast"

• Reviewed by: CNET Staff
• Version reviewed: Avast Professional Edition 4.6

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.

User reviews of Avast Professional Edition 4.6

• Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 397 votes
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• 5 stars

  3 out of 4 people found this review helpful

  Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.6

  "By far the best antivirus around"

  by Andrew932 on January 30, 2006

  Pros: Has the script blocking feature

  More options than Norton and cheaper

  Free edition but better

  Cons: Cosst money, but what do you expect? It's better than Norton and it's half the price.

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• 5 stars

  4 out of 5 people found this review helpful

  Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.6

  "Best on the market As I did some testing."

  by matbowls300 on February 4, 2006

  Pros: I Did Something I took the folowing anti-viruses and tested them First of all I tested Norton. Now Norton Sucks Its a Ram hogger...Dont even try to use it. I tryed Avg As well but then I caught a virus that disabled avg So no good. Then Nod32 i tested and found That Its good but No features! then Avast! Will avast Is good! as psp shield web shield has everything you ever need

  Cons: No cons!

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• 5 stars

  5 out of 6 people found this review helpful

  Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.6

  "This is a very good product"

  by GuidoMele on May 30, 2005

  Pros: Lots of fast Updates and the scans find the bad stuff better than a well known AV , I had for 4 prior years.

  I'm telling eyeryone( friends and family ) to use this software. : )

  I installed it also on my In-laws PC 3 days ago.

  Great skins ( lots)

  Cons: none

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• 2 stars

  4 out of 7 people found this review helpful

  Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.6

  "Good, but..."

  by aitchondo on July 3, 2005

  Pros: ...yes, it did do a good job, but...

  Cons: ...it doesn't update fast as someone wants you to believe and it is so thorough, that it misses some things and it slowed my computer by almost 80%. It slowed things down so much that some programs would stop running. Good, but needs a lot of work. Recommend it to your in-laws, but only if you don't like them very much.

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• 5 stars

  2 out of 3 people found this review helpful

  Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.6

  "What can I say...? hmmm..."

  by launcer_x on August 25, 2005

  Pros: Well it is a good product indeed. It found viruses that other AVs couldn't. It doesn't hog resources, like some AVs out there. I would recommend it highly.

  Cons: It cannot scan files that are encryted or corrupted. I find this a potential hazzard to a pc.. since a virus could hide within the file... and pose a threat once released onto the pc if not detected. Then again.. once in a compressed file, the virus cannot harm the pc.. only when released, it can.

  Also.. it doesn't show a scan window when a schedule scan is taking place... :( please Alwil.. I beg of you.. Please add this feature along with a firewall, privacy control and web filtering feature..

  You can call it Avast Internet Security Suite.. please make this a reality.. Oh.. the AV must be able to detect and remove all spyware... :).. thankz..

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