- 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: February 10, 2008
- 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 4 Professional Edition is a complete ICSA & Checkmark 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 4.7.1098.80207 contains updated virus database
What's new in this version:
Version 4.7.1098.80207 contains updated virus database
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User reviews of Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1098.80207
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 450 votes
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1098.80207
Pros: prefect
Cons: wish it free with all the extra that in the free
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1098.80207
Pros: This is the greatest anti virus software thats free hands down.
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1098.80207
"annoying - slow behind your back"
Pros: didnt' get a virus
Cons: It wil slow your machine with no warning for minutes (especially if you boot it or come back aftre your machine was "hibernating"). Then, after this annoying slowdown, when you needed the machine th emost, it says "Avast viruses updated".
It should have waited and allowed me to continue with my work meeting, then updated later, or at least gave me the option.
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1098.80207
"My computer feels like a frisky 16 yr old again!"
Pros: Avast's revolving eye reassures me that all danger is being anticipated by a vigilant sentinel. It "smells" danger coming.
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.1098.80207
"Greattttttttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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