Avast Home Edition 4.7.1098

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Popularity:
#2 in Antivirus Software (out of 292 products)
Editor's Rating:
5.0 stars
Average User Rating:
4.0 stars (out of 8024 votes) Rate it!
Downloads:
20,086,044
Requirements:
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista
Limitations:
No limitations
Date Added:
December 09, 2007
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Publisher's description of Avast Home Edition 4.7.1098

From ALWIL Software:

Avast Home Edition is a complete ICSA & Checkmark certified antivirus. Avast includes the following components: On demand scanner with skinnable simple interface, just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button; On access scanner, special providers to protect the most of available e-mail clients; Instant messaging--ICQ, Miranda; Network traffic--intrusion detection, lightweight firewall; P2P protection for Kazaa, BitTorrent; Web shield--monitors and filter all HTTP traffic; NNTP scanner--scans all Usenet Newsgroup traffic and all operations with files on PC; Boot time scanner--scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CHKDSK does.

Version 4.7.1098 adds support for few new packers, improves the efficiency of incremental updates.

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Editor's review of Avast Home Edition 4.7.1098

5.0 stars
"Make viruses walk the plank"

This impressive software provides the same steadfast protection of well-known antivirus programs, yet it's surprisingly free.

Avast Home Edition guards your PC and the network with multiple shields that scan executables and files. You can select parameters for scanning, and even choose wildcards to exclude specific file types. You can adjust the sensitivity level for the program's detectors when it comes to scanning downloaded files, instant messages, e-mails, and a host of P2Ps. Its efficient interface opens up window after window to tweak its settings to your liking, for novice to advanced level protection.

Though it took quite some time to run, we're impressed with this application's boot-time antivirus scan. Fortunately, if you're in a pinch you can bypass it. If malicious contents are detected, Avast comes to the rescue with handy virus cleanup tools. Some decent PC controls are even handed out here. You can block certain URLs and file operations, such as writing to files or even renaming, deleting or formatting them.

With immediate real-time protection, clockwork updates, and much more, this free software is highly regarded in our book.

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Average user rating: 4.4 stars out of 8024 votes
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0 out of 3 people found this review helpful

Version: Avast Home Edition 4.7.1098

"Avast! Performance out of pure excellence!"

by Björn Lundahl on January 6, 2008

Pros: Well, well, well this is the best anti virus software I have ever used. Their might be anti virus software which are supposed to catch a slightly larger variety of viruses but they also usually catch and attack other software in your pc and will cause you a lot of trouble. A anti virus software should just be working in the background and do what it is supposed to do and it should not need to dominate your attention. I downloaded Bitdefender for a few minutes but it did not work properly. I installed Avast again. I trust Avast deeply.
Avast is also free! It has a lot of skins to choose from and it is not a dull program like its competitors.
Download Avast and install it. You will not need to worry any more of viruses and of the software itself!
Bjorn Lundahl
Gothenburg, Sweden

Cons: None!

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5 out of 8 people found this review helpful

Version: Avast Home Edition 4.7.1098

"Love it!"

by JoyceNgo on December 12, 2007

Pros: It does a lot for an antivirus program that you normally pay and subscribe for every month. It has downloadable skins, very light weight and easy on resources, fast scans, many features such as a firewall.

Cons: None yet.

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4 out of 9 people found this review helpful

Version: Avast Home Edition 4.7.1098

"The best all round anti-virus for FREE"

by im.spartacas on December 23, 2007

Pros: i have been using this for years and have never had any problems ..
i have tried all the other free anti-virus there is but still come back to avast cus its the best form me..

Cons: can miss the odd virus (vary rare) but i use: bit defender 10 free : once a month just to check ..

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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful

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"Question"

by andeyejah on December 11, 2007

Pros: It's great but does it really include a firewall?

Cons: Answers on a post card please.Or just leave a reply.

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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

Version: Avast Home Edition 4.7.1098

"long time user"

by antidummy on December 10, 2007

Pros: very good antivirus, i installed Avast on every my computer and friends

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