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- Price: Free to try (60-day trial); $40.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 11, 2003
- Total Downloads: 1,611,065
- Downloads last week: 95,047
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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 certified antivirus software for your company. It obtained multiple VB100% awards in Virus Bulletin comparative reviews.
avast! scans for viruses, worms, and Trojans: On Demand - with two User Interfaces (Simple and Enhanced - Outlook like UI allows user to set any feature of avast!, prepare and run tasks, store and check task's results), On Access, E-mail, during Boot Time, in File Explorer and Screen Saver. It maintains Virus Chest. Features included: resident protection for IM programs (ICQ, MSN Messenger, etc.) and P2P programs (Kazaa, DirectConnect, etc.), enhanced support for Win32 EXE packers (UPX, PeShield, etc.), and archives (ACE, ARC, etc.), integrated Virus Cleaner, Internet Mail protection support multiple SMTP server, etc.
True incremental and automatic updates (well below 100 KB) based on iAVS technology update virus definition at least twice a week.
Version 4.1.289 features improvements and bug fixes.
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