Reviews of avast! Free Antivirus

1. 
   carlo_tor

   Reviewing 8.0.1489 (May 19, 2013)

   Avast is a good AV and once it was light, too. Now the version 8.0.xxx is big, complex and slows down my PC. I uninstalled it and adopted Panda Cloud.
   I strongly suggest Alwast developpers to make it more essential and lighter.
   Regards
2. 
   Artem S. Tashkinov

   Reviewing 8.0.1488.286 (May 5, 2013)

   A wonderful AV. Highly recommended!
   
   (I'm not affiliated with Avast).
3. 
   guti

   Reviewing 8.0.1484 R2 Beta (Mar 29, 2013)

   This program update contains the following major features:
   * SecureLine - is a paid VPN service that both secures and anonymizes your internet connection on public or "open" (unsecured) Wi-Fi. Nobody can see who you are or what you are doing on the internet.
   Please be patient, this feature will be unblock for your test soon :-)
   * Screen readers compatibility
   * Software Updater improvements (including a way to turn off Software Update persistently)
   * Shredder tool is showing a progress now
   * Improved stability & performance
   * Fixed glitches in UI
4. 
   reddy.shyam

   Reviewing 8.0.1483 (Mar 8, 2013)

   This is a very light program update fixing issues
   mentioned on the forum related to original release of AVAST 8.
   
   List of changes
   • Fixed issue with ZoneAlarm
   • Fixed issue with constant CPU frequency
   • Fixed issue with video players
   • Fixed issue with Virtual PC
   • Added some localizations
5. 
   gatorfan95

   Reviewing 8.0.1483 (Mar 7, 2013)

   It would have been nice to see what required a new version so soon after the release on 1 March. Still 5 stars whatever the reason

Discuss avast! Free Antivirus

1. Aug 17, 2012 - 6:24 PM
   Sativarg

   UPDATE!!! Beta Free/Pro/AIS 7.0.1464
   Hi all,
   at first, I would like to thank you for giving us feedback for version 7.0.1456 & 7.0.1461(beta). We are sorry if we caused any problems to you. We spent weeks of analyzing & fixing the most important issues. This beta of Free/Pro/AIS (version 7.0.1464) contains following fixes:
   * Black screen syndrom (1) - unable to log-in
   * Keyboard disabled (1)
   * IE webrep crashes
   * Random switching to safezone
   * Welcome screen opening after each reboot
   * Outlook plugins does not work & crashes of Outlook (2)
   * Cannot add new packet rules
   * Double VPS update sounds
   * Update screen closes without clicking on finish button
   * SNX fixes
   --- fixes from previous beta (7.0.1461)
   * several BSODs
   * some Outlook crashes
   * found & fixed some leaks
   
   1) If you still have these issues, please follow https://support.avast.co...le&kbarticleid=1356 and give us as much information as possible. Thanks a lot!
   
   (2) We have still problems with unregistering old plugin on some configurations. If it's possible, please unregister old one (e.g. through aswClear.exe) and then install avast! plugin again. We will fix this issue for next beta refresh. Sorry for that.
2. Nov 21, 2010 - 7:54 PM
   jackolan

   Hi guys - newbe here. I have been using Avast 4.8 professional for yonks 4.8.1335 expiry 2018 and have found it el-stupendo. What's not documented about THIS edition is that when you run Malwarebytes manually, it handshakes with avast and they BOTH examine the files. Whats annoying lately is that although this is a legal registered and paid for edition, I have been getting these daily pop ups from Avast telling me my "free edition is about to run out so register now'. Firstly, I don't have a 'free' edition and it IS registered, I confirmed this by re-registering it and Avast sez 'OK' carry on. The a day later [ almost exactly] this stupid pop up appears again!!. It has not effected my upgrades nor any functionality at all but it is getting to be a pain having to just close the pop up and ignore it. What in the sam hill is causing this to happen AND regularly by time clock every 24 hours, no sooner or later.
   PS. my system clock and date is correct
3. Sep 9, 2010 - 9:45 AM
   sv800

   I downloaded the last version (1 week ago) I hadn't registered yet, what happen when 30 days expire. Does it still protect my PC?
4. Mar 15, 2010 - 3:29 PM
   Eddie1962

   Avast is signature based. Which means it has no heuristic scanning in the free version. It has it in e-mail. But what good is that when 9 out of 10 people use web based e-mail? When all you want to do is scan your machine avast will not "look" for certain behaviors. That's because it doesn't use heuristics when scanning files on your computer. Without heuristics your computer could be infected and avast will not detect it.
5. Mar 15, 2010 - 3:19 PM
   Eddie1962

   Avast is signature based. Which means it has no heuristic scanning in the free version. It has it in e-mail. But what good is that when 9 out of 10 people use web based e-mail? When all you want to do is scan your machine avast will not "look" for certain behaviors. That's because it doesn't use heuristics when scanning files on your computer. Without heuristics your computer could be infected and avast will not detect it.
6. Oct 15, 2009 - 6:21 PM
   Sativarg

   Might it be better to link to New beta refresh 5.0.167 as a home page for this reliece
   
   

   [Incomplete] change log:
   
   - improvements in the Explorer right-click scan
   - improvements in the localizations (French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Polish, Russian and Chinese localizations should now be complete)
   - Add and Submit commands in the virus chest now working
   - fixed a few memory leaks in the GUI process
   - boot-time scan logs now in the Scan logs folder (this feature is still unfinished)
   - added controls for actions on infected files inside archives
   - fixed the Block command in the Ask dialog
   - improvements in the silent installer
   - the program is now working under Windows 2000 (SP4 or higher)