- 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: August 26, 2008
- Total Downloads: 2,147,315
- Downloads last week: 108,542
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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, Checkmark certified anti-spyware & anti-rootkit software package 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 32 languages. Small, true incremental, updates are downloaded and installed automatically.
Version 4.8.1229.80826 contains improvements in the anti-rootkit module.
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Version 4.8.1229.80826 contains improvements in the anti-rootkit module.
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1229.80826
Pros: working fast
Cons: hard for me tu up date it for my computer at home; which is not connect to the internet
Summary: how we can up-date it at home if we don't have connect to the internet?
what file should i copy from computer using internet so my avast at home can always up date?
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1229.80826
"like it but detection rates suck"
Pros: good app like the scheduleing boottime scan but misses simple trojans
Cons: missed simple viruses and trojans....kaspersky is alwys my choice ...
also the bloody userinterface is very cheap and tackySummary: good and bad mostly bad
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1229.80826
Pros: This is the best antivirus i've found! it doesnt slow down my system! it found 4 trojans that AVG miss! the best! i like the way it warns me...
Cons: (not free) but i 've already paid it so no problem anymore! heheheh!
GUI is quite weird, so i just download a new skin for it... but still great!Summary: it has many features and it doesnt have any "suite" or "internet security" that many antiviruses offers which really makes me confuse! avast! only has 2 versions which you can choose from(there are more depending on your OS)
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