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- Price: Free to try (60-day trial); $39.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: March 19, 2009
- Total Downloads: 2,458,925
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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 451 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 4.8.1335.90319 brings improvements in the rootkit scanner as well as performance optimizations.
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Version 4.8.1335.90319 brings improvements in the rootkit scanner as well as performance optimizations.
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User reviews of Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1335.90319
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 451 votes
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1335.90319
"Superb detection rate, ease of use, great price!"
Pros: Everything about this program is excellent - the best security suite available for the cost. Out of the box functionality and ease of use.
Cons: none that I can come up with so far and I've been using the Pro versionfor roughly a year now.
Summary: You cannot get a better security suite/stand-alone product for the money.
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1335.90319
Pros: user friendly but virus unfriendly!
Cons: there is nothing that i dont like about this product.
Summary: i like avast because it is program safe unlike others when they delete a certain program it include all thus affecting the program stabilty unlike avast it deletes the virus but repair the actual program itself to previous condition before it is inf... read more >>
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1335.90319
Pros: no viruses can pass through your PC with this
Cons: nothing, anthing's PERFECT!!!
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1335.90319
Pros: I have more confidence in Avast than any other I have used simply because I see it working.
Cons: Haven't found any but then again I am not looking. I don't know if I am qualified anyway. (smiles)
Summary: It is FREEand works. What more can be said?
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1335.90319
"Outstanding Protection and Management"
Pros: Solid and complete protection from viruses and spyware. Self protection helps ensure that viruses fail to disable Avast Pro. Excellent free central management capabilities when purchasing multiple licenses. Dependable protection and performance.
Cons: The GUI for the scanner is odd and outdated. The availability of Skins helps to address this.
Summary: This is a great product. I have 19 system running Avast Pro and being managed by the Avast management console (Free with multiple pro licenses). The product is solid and protects the systems from all angles including e-mail, IM, P2P, etc. The GUI is... read more >>
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