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- Price: Free to try; 1-year license (60-day trial); $39.95 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 98
- Date added: November 07, 2006
- 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 450 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 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 27 languages.
Version 4.7.892 is now finally compatible with Windows Vista RC1 and the "remediations" in Vista Security Center are now functional.
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User reviews of Avast Professional Edition 4.7.892
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 450 votes
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.892
Pros: Fast, Accurate, Thorough and your pc will now fire up straight away! Shields are good! Best anti virus program EVER!
Cons: Some virus can get past avast. But then you can fix it by VRDB! Virus Recovery Database. Like recovery point.
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.892
"Its getting better and better"
Pros: I like the boot time scan option
It dont use much mem and its easy to use
Cons: some problems with other programs
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.892
"The best anti-virus money dosent have to buy"
Pros: avast is now the only anti-virus i use,i will try others,even pay money for some,but they fail to do what i expect and i end up back with avast
what i like about avast is the ease of use,it takes about 30 seconds to install and set up is automatic,scans are easy to configure and are very thourough,avast picked up 12 viruses on a machine i fixed that previously ran norton anti-virus,this amazed me as the person had payed �£39 for virus protection and was infected even with norton
avast has p2p protection ,good for anyone setting up limewire,or kazza,and has another 6 providers running
you can also download from a libary of skins that make your scanner a bit nicer to look at
on the whole this is a excellent all round scanner and i would recommend it to anyone who wants to use the internet without worrying about getting a virus
10 out of 10
Cons: scan speed can be a bit slow,but i can handle that
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.892
Pros: Everything, this AV is absolutely amazing, you wont even notice that is running.
Cons: None
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.892
Pros: fast updates..i like the boot scan option and 1 of the best antivirus out there (includidng the free version)
Cons: no cons...
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