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Avast! 4 Home Edition v4.7.981

This is an old version of this software. You can also download v4.8.1229 (latest stable version).

Avast! 4 Home Edition is a full-featured antivirus package designed exclusively for home and non-commercial use.

Avast includes standard resident protection, P2P and IM shields, network shield (against worms etc.), web shield (http traffic monitoring), automatic updates, virus chest and virus cleaner.

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Avast! 4 Home Edition
License:	Freeware
Operating Systems:	Vista/ Win2k/ Win95/ Win98/ WinME/ WinNT/ WinXP
Date added:	18.11.2005
Last updated:	24.7.2008
Downloads:	377,155
Filesize:	13.97 MB
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Rating:	4.57 (60 votes)

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novicebb 11 August 2008 1:50 for Avast! 4 Home Edition v4.8.1229
Ok this is a decent antivirus program. The pros is that it does have a low footprint even when scanning. I have a 2.66ghz Intel Celeron Pentium 4. Yes you read right. So that means that I have a single processor that many anti-virus programs just eat up cpu cycles and pushes it to 100% usage easily. Sometimes it is hard to do anything else. With Avast I haven't seen it go beyond 79% and that is while having firefox 3 up with 3 tabs, one of them being a flash heavy tab. Also the system overall memory only shot up to about 400mb compared to AVG which would sometimes shoot up to over 500mb with the same settings and while I firefox is up with 3 tabs and one of the sites being flash heavy. I also like the real time virus check that avast offers. Can check your email, P2P clients like Utorrent or limewire while you are downloading. It also checks your network connections, Instant Messages, webmail and internet browsing. I also like that you can set what folders you want scanned instead of some programs that just does a can of your entire harddrive. I have two harddrives. A 40gb and then a 400gb and don't need every folder to be scanned. So I like I can choose which folders not to be scanned. This is also a great feature of AVG 7.5. So it is really a robust system for a free edition. Ok the cons. I absolutely hate the User Interface. It is terrible. I can see why some people may confused by the UI. Ofcourse you can remedy the what each section of the UI does just by having the mouse cursor hover over it for a second and let the actions of that particular section pop up and inform you what its function is. But some people may not know that. Plus when the rotating avant 4 icon in your quick launch doesn't control the actuall Avant 4 virus scanner. You have to go to the start menu or click on the desktop icon to access that. Also although this program has a low cpu and memory footprint, it does have about 5 processes running in the background. Again yes this program doesn't use up alot of resources I still don't like that many processes from one program running in the background. Also there isn't really a way to diasble some these processes other then just killing it in the taskmanager. Even if you uncheck all of the protections in your Avast shield applications they still will run in the background just that they will be diasabled. So if you already have realtime anti viral/spyware program either plugged into your browser or a antispyware that does this feature then you may want to disable their fuction as to save your self a little bit more ram since Avast is capable of doing this for you. Overall it is very good. Too me it finds about as much as what AVG 7.5 will find, has a lot of features and way more pluses then a few minor minuses. So I will still rate it as excellent.
borhan9 24 June 2007 4:33 for Avast! 4 Home Edition v4.7.1001
Avast is the best free anti virus program out there that does pick up i would say everything.else under the sun. Dont bother paying for anti virus software when the best is for free.
dacohenz 4 June 2007 16:59 for Avast! 4 Home Edition v4.7.1001
This has been a solid antivirus software. I load it on my computers and on my clients. It does a nice job catching viruses, and does not use up close to the amount of memory that McAfee and Norton use. The only thing I don't like is the look of the software, pretty lame and not very user friendly, but you can't bitch, cause it's free. Dave
DVDBack23 21 December 2005 17:05 for Avast! 4 Home Edition v4.6.744
I have Avast! Pro and it works like a charm, nice skins, less resources than mcafee, and runs like it should. Excellent program.

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