- 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: September 26, 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 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 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 4.7.1043 adds support for more packers, brings higher detection rates, and adds Arabic language.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.7.1043 adds support for more packers, brings higher detection rates, and adds Arabic language.
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User reviews of Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1043
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 450 votes
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1043
Pros: i was using nod32 previously but still got virus attack.. so decided to give this a go.. to my surprise.. it's light on resource but strong virus protection and doesn't slow down my system.. what are you waiting for? go get one now..
Cons: nothing..
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1043
Pros: The virus detection system system is very fast and the voice alert adds a new dimension to the software.
Cons: It is not at all comprehensible.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1043
Pros: What I like the most about Avast! Antivirus is the fact that it's light on system resources and still has great detection and protection.
The interface is pretty modern and easy to use.
Cons: The on-demand scan doesn't give a report after scanning (Like AVG or McAfee). Instead, it gives an alert from the exact moment the scanner locates a virus. This might be a securer way but having to wait hours for the scanner to complete (On large drives, like mine) is pretty frustrating ofcourse.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1043
Pros: It works! It's free of charge for home users! It does it work (found some really dangerous threats for me) and it is very easy to operate (my wife and son does it without any problems).
It supports WIN 64Bit systems, and eat less resources than other AV products. And it is available in many languages!
Therer is another reason I recommend it to my friends - small update footprint! You can even update it over dial-up or costly roaming connection and does it AUTOMATICALLY! Unlike many other products which reqire user interaction.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1043
Pros: I purchased a very expensive anti virus and was having so many problems. So on a whim downloaded this Avast product and it has cleared up all the issues. I like it very much so far but I like the other one too.
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