- Quick specs
- 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: April 14, 2009
- Total Downloads: 3,972,235
- Downloads last week: 120,816
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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 4.8.1335.90414 brings improvements in the malware and rootkit scanners and an enhanced setup experience.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.8.1335.90414.Uni brings improvements in the malware and rootkit scanners and an enhanced setup experience.
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User reviews of Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1335.90414
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 450 votes
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Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1335.90414
Pros: High speed, thorough and reasonable price.
Cons: Very poor download instructions
Summary: Protects my home laptop better than any other software I've used.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1335.90414
"I would recommend this to my friends"
Pros: I feel safer with it. It doesn't slowdown the system at all
Cons: It has no Parental control??
Summary: I feel safer with it. It doesn't slowdown the system at all
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1335.90414
"I haven't run it on my system"
Pros: I will say when I have tried it
Cons: I noticed that you need to have internet access in order to launch the program
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1335.90414
Pros: this product protects my computer like a guardian angel.i like when its in the background not using up much RAM.
Cons: The noise when a virus is detected
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1335.90414
Pros: I downloaded Avast Professional Edition 4.8 about two weeks ago.
Very happy with it, I like the Shield always running and the Avast flash on every website, youtube, e-mails.
Very quick.
I feel safer with it. It doesn't slowdown the system at all.Cons: No cons....
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