avast! Professional 4.8.1201

4.6 out of 5 stars 4.6 (118 votes)

(May 16, 2008)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Shareware; $39.95 / 11,284 downloads

avast! is an antivirus set that is able to detect the presence of viruses in computers. It has a powerful antivirus kernal that has a boot-time scan, improved resident protection, heuristic analysis for email, and a script blocker. The program works great as a on-demand and/or resident virus scanner. The skinable interface is easy to use for any user.

avast! Professional Edition is a complete ICSA certified antivirus package for small office, home office. It scans: On Demand - with two User Interfaces, On Access, E-mail, during Boot Time, in File Explorer and Screen Saver. It maintains Virus Chest. True incremental updates based on iAVS technology updates twice a week virus definition file and program itself.

  • Publisher

    ALWIL Software

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  • Latest Changes

    - Solved incompatibility with System Safety Monitor

    - Improved compatibility of the self defense module with XP SP3 (and its installation)

    - Minor enhancements in the Web Shield (detection of streaming content)

    - Minor fixes in the updater

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    bokhylla

    Reviewing 4.8.1201 (May 12, 2009)

    "The best there is and now also equipped with heuristics"

    Do not use Kaspersky, Norton, Nod 32, Bitdefender, AVG etc. use Avast and you will have a pc that is malware free and a program which is reliable and just works. The program has a lot of features which many other lacks, features which are essential in the fight against malware. I have been in contact with the company behind Avast named Alwil and they have informed me that since version 4.8 Avast is equipped with heuristics. They are planning to announce this together with other new features related to heuristics in the third quarter of 2009.

    Avast is a protective fortress with all its shields and will protect your pc against viruses, spyware, adware, rootkits and other malware. I have used Avast for nearly four years in different computers and it always work reliably and have kept them free from viruses.

    Avast has a lot of cool skins to choose from. It is not a dull anti-virus program like the rest.

    Note: Equipped with heuristic means that the program has a capability to catch unknown viruses.

    Björn Lundahl
    Gothenburg, Sweden

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    tuneslover

    Reviewing 4.8.1195 (May 13, 2008)

    Best antivirus software. Love it!

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    Pfurri

    Reviewing 4.8.1169 (Mar 31, 2008)

    Without a doubt and by far the best av-tool, and i tried all the others too ! I give ****** !!!

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    InfoGeek

    Reviewing 4.7.1043 (Nov 7, 2007)

    Better than Norton. However, for the extremely lazy Warcrafters who don't have the brain power to run a scan, I still have yet to find you the perfect Anti Virus that will scan and breathe for you automatically. If Avast programmers could get it to update, restart and scan automatically when screen saver goes on, it may sell more copies. Another batch setting would be for it to update and restart the PC in boot scan and after the scan completes, either shut down or boot to Stand By or Hibernate. :)

  5. 3 out of 5 stars
    Alex Stevens

    Reviewing 4.7.981 (Jul 23, 2007)

    This was my favorite antivirus program, but for some reason the latest version keeps asking me to restart every time it updates the virus definitions.

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