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- Price: Free to try (60-day trial); $39.95 to buy (Buy it now)
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: January 25, 2007
- 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 28 languages. Small, true incremental, updates are downloaded and installed automatically.
Version 4.7.942 is Windows Vista compatible.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.7.942 is Windows Vista compatible.
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User reviews of Avast Professional Edition 4.7.942
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 450 votes
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26 out of 44 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.942
Pros: Avast professional is better than it's free edition.Very good detection of virus, worms and trojans and the removal is effective.Updates daily.
Cons: Interface is not good.Hides many options and makes it hard to use.Realtime protection needs to be better.Dosen't have the west coast check.
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6 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.942
"True, It's Free & Very Good, But Also Annoying"
Pros: Functionally, there is NOTHING wrong with this antivirus program, plus it's free. It will get the job done. You should get this if you have no antivirus software.
Cons: ANNOYANCES GALORE! First of all, you have to register (for free), but it takes a good while, is done thru email, and only lasts 14 months as I recall. Ouch. But it's still free.
Also, it just doesn't stop! It auto-starts, which most users may want, but NOT ME. Hey, program! Do what I say, not what you feel like doing! I even took it out of my startup programs list using a few different methods, and somehow it still auto-started. Plus I have to exit it through the task manager. Basically, I leave this program uninstalled, and only install it if I feel I may have a virus.
But... it is still free & effective, so I use it.
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12 out of 14 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.942
Pros: it was very good last time i used it. I have already downloaded it, but it askin for the registration key...which was supposed to be sent to my e-mail. I never got it
Cons: can't use it yet
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11 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.942
Pros: it just work. i tried to download all kind of virus and worms - it takes them all.
Cons: it can do it all but it takes time to find where to look for adjustment. a litle messed up.
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9 out of 11 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.942
Pros: I tried to download Zone Alarm Firewall from PC world to see if it would work with Vista, (that I no longer have installed!)as soon as the download started, it detected a Virus! I stopped the download. How many people download programs and not know there's a virus attached? This program is WONDERFUL!
Cons: There isn't one thing I don't like about this program.
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