- Quick specs
- 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: May 17, 2007
- Total Downloads: 2,569,331
- Downloads last week: 108,639
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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 453 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 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 31 languages. Small, true incremental, updates are downloaded and installed automatically.
Version 4.7.1001 is fully compatible with Outlook 2007, it contains new unpackers and is available in 3 new languages.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.7.1001 is fully compatible with Outlook 2007, it contains new unpackers and is available in 3 new languages.
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User reviews of Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1001
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 453 votes
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8 out of 23 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1001
"Not bad at all. I can give it 3.75 stars compared to paid only scanners."
Pros: I'll admit, It's tough to get a five start review on a security application (of any type) from me. This is a good program. Unfortunately, it's not that different from the free version. It has a few more settings and one additional shield. It's a customizable program and once you find the right skin at "Avast" it becomes a nice, user friendly GUI. Like in the free version, I recommend, for your first scan, turning the scan setting to deep scan. It takes longer but is more effective. This application has good active protection, good detection and removal on viruses, trojans and worms. Updates are automatic, unobtrusive and smooth. It's compatible with "Vista" and would not be a bad choice. I like it better then "Norton" and McAfee"
Cons: At $39.95 per year, it would not be in my first three choices, but thats only my opinion. My first two are "Kaspersky" and "AntiVir Premium". not necessarily in that order. The only flaws I see in this application are an occasional false positive and an occasional, fail to block. One of the false positives that occur are in "system restore points", where other software has been uninstalled and a trace is left over.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1001
Pros: It seems to be good... coz my computer hasn't been affected. Actually I've found no viruses since I installed it
Cons: It makes the computer works slowlier.
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1001
Pros: I've been using Avast Pro for a while now and love it. I also put it on my parents computers, and they have recommended it to their friends as well. The best thing in Avast, I think is personally, is how it alerts you when there is a virus and the screen saver. I mean, how great is that?! You walk away from your desk for a bit, and by the time you come beck, your computer is scanned and repaired if needed.
Cons: The only con I really see is the interface. It's a little confusing at first, but after a while, you get used to it.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1001
Pros: awesome antivirus , great all time protection , effective , can work in high protection n normal protection , big databse for virus definitions , doesn't slow my computer at all during the all-time protection and thats what i like about this software , a MUST have , specially the professional edition , worth every penny
Cons: Nothin really
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1001
"EXCELLENT WITH SCRIPT BLOCKING"
Pros: i just thought everybody needs to know this product is EXCELLENT
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