Avast Professional Edition 4.7.942

• Editor's Rating:

  4.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  4.0 stars (out of 303 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  775,700

• Requirements:

  Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista

• Limitations:

  60-day trial

• Date Added:

  January 25, 2007

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Publisher's description of Avast Professional Edition 4.7.942

Avast Professional Edition is a complete ICSA certified antivirus software 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 28 languages. Small, true incremental, updates are downloaded and installed automatically.

Version 4.7.942 is Windows Vista compatible.

Editor's review of Avast Professional Edition 4.7.942

• 4.0 stars

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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.

User reviews of Avast Professional Edition 4.7.942

• Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 303 votes
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• 3 stars

  26 out of 44 people found this review helpful

  Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.942

  "Good Detection"

  by Reborn master on January 25, 2007

  Pros: Avast professional is better than it's free edition.Very good detection of virus, worms and trojans and the removal is effective.Updates daily.

  Cons: Interface is not good.Hides many options and makes it hard to use.Realtime protection needs to be better.Dosen't have the west coast check.

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• 3 stars

  6 out of 13 people found this review helpful

  Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.942

  "True, It's Free & Very Good, But Also Annoying"

  by Brian_Watters on April 19, 2007

  Pros: Functionally, there is NOTHING wrong with this antivirus program, plus it's free. It will get the job done. You should get this if you have no antivirus software.

  Cons: ANNOYANCES GALORE! First of all, you have to register (for free), but it takes a good while, is done thru email, and only lasts 14 months as I recall. Ouch. But it's still free.

  Also, it just doesn't stop! It auto-starts, which most users may want, but NOT ME. Hey, program! Do what I say, not what you feel like doing! I even took it out of my startup programs list using a few different methods, and somehow it still auto-started. Plus I have to exit it through the task manager. Basically, I leave this program uninstalled, and only install it if I feel I may have a virus.

  But... it is still free & effective, so I use it.

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• 5 stars

  12 out of 14 people found this review helpful

  Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.942

  "i need the registration key"

  by sallyanne562002 on March 13, 2007

  Pros: it was very good last time i used it. I have already downloaded it, but it askin for the registration key...which was supposed to be sent to my e-mail. I never got it

  Cons: can't use it yet

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• 5 stars

  11 out of 13 people found this review helpful

  Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.942

  "best i ever tried"

  by tonyfs on February 15, 2007

  Pros: it just work. i tried to download all kind of virus and worms - it takes them all.

  Cons: it can do it all but it takes time to find where to look for adjustment. a litle messed up.

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• 5 stars

  9 out of 11 people found this review helpful

  Version: Avast Professional Edition 4.7.942

  "Fantastic Software"

  by buggzee on April 14, 2007

  Pros: I tried to download Zone Alarm Firewall from PC world to see if it would work with Vista, (that I no longer have installed!)as soon as the download started, it detected a Virus! I stopped the download. How many people download programs and not know there's a virus attached? This program is WONDERFUL!

  Cons: There isn't one thing I don't like about this program.

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