- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (60-day trial); $39.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7
- Date added: August 19, 2009
- Total Downloads: 6,085,838
- Downloads last week: 83,537
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 468 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.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.8.1351 features: Uni brings improvements in the malware and rootkit scanners and an enhanced setup experience.
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- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 468 votes
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1351
"Some time it is good some time it doesn't run properly!"
Pros: The 5 elements it is easy to install . and Appear very clear ! Look nice !
Cons: The little blue ball say 8 provider and 8 are running (some times ) but some times say 8 provider and 5 are running usually are running 7 most of the time are 7 .So I really don't know which one is correct ?????
Summary: Usually this product appear like you are not sure what are you doing with ! Because you so many update every day so Whats going on ? Why you have to make so many update every day ? I like if this product protect my computer and files but its sound t... read more >>
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1351
"better that some of the others"
Pros: I have been using it for a while and it is pretty solid overall
Cons: It does seem to slow my computer down
Summary: seems to work well enough
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1351
"Haven't had a problem since downloading years ago."
Pros: Ease of use and stealth running.
Cons: Got used to icon in system tray but can't get the new release to put it there.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1351
Pros: It found nothing so can't give a good comment
Cons: It slowed my computer down so much that it was a big pain. Deleted program within 6 hours.
Summary: Needs to be easier to use and not have such stringent rules that every time you go to a site, it interrupts the loading and my computer would time out. Would not recommend this product.
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.8.1351
"Best antivirus software I used and dosen't slow pc down"
Pros: Best antivirus softwre I ever used I have had Careone (Good) , AVG (Lame), and Norton (Bogs your PC & Lame) but Avast kills every thing in it's path Trojans, worms, adware and viruses.
Cons: Price is misleading you think it's a cheap antivirus program but as I found out it absolutly is worth every penny and dosen't bog your PC down must have for any PC user that want's piece of mind.
Summary: Avast blocks P2P viruses, web page viruses , trojans, worms and most important to me is a function that allows you to induvidually scan a external device such as a jump drive or protable hard drive and cleans it so you don't infect other peoples PC ... read more >>
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