avast! 4 Professional Edition Antivirus

by Alwil Software

Product Details

• ASIN: B000785FF0
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,756 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 22, 2004

Product Description

Almost 100% detection, outstanding performance, reasonable memory requirements. Memory test during the program startup, capability of testing whole disks or selected folders. Able to monitor and filter all HTTP traffic coming from the Web sites on the Internet, also acts as a transparent HTTP proxy and is compatible with all major web browsers. Enhanced User Interface (MS Outlook style), change appearanceswith skins. The system of incremental updates guarantees low traffic, updates can be completely automatic, standard updates twice a week, PUSH updates immediately when published

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High Quality Includes Free Coaching, January 29, 2006

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Kenneth J. Dillon (Washington, D.C. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: avast! 4 Professional Edition Antivirus (Electronics)

I have been using the Home version of Avast for the past month and have come to appreciate its unobtrusive, rapid, thorough performance. Equally helpful has been the personal attention I received from their security software expert. My PC had been taken over by a virus that had fouled up its operation and managed to block access to downloads from security software sites I tried. Or when I managed to download some antivirus program, it would not install correctly. The Avast expert sent me a handy tool (Hijack This) from another company that spotted the infected files and removed them. He also offered to investigate the log and advised me. Now the PC is totally clean and protected by Avast--all at no cost whatsoever for the Home edition. I must assume that the avast! Professional Edition has even more to offer. Hard to beat the combination of a quality product and service beyond the call of duty.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars After Norton and McAfee, This is a Dream, November 6, 2006

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Ethan A. Winning "ewin64" (Walnut Creek, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: avast! 4 Professional Edition Antivirus (Electronics)

I downloaded Avast a year ago after Norton froze my computer (again). Avast (Pro is just the paid version) works seamlessly in the background. Menus are easy to understand and follow, and so far I'm very pleased. It does what it's supposed to do.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Only AV for those already using 64 bit Windows, March 31, 2006

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General Turgidson (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: avast! 4 Professional Edition Antivirus (Electronics)

Easily installed, and full featured under Windows XP x64. Purchased as a temporary measure until our IT people have something to recommend. Our standard issue is the corporate version of Symantec AV, but under 64 bit Windows, it only offers a small subset of features.

One quirk is that you cannot teach it to recognize non-standard file extensions. Every time I go to edit a script file with the extension .prg, I have to open it through a dialog box that offers warnings about the unknown file-type.