The other source,, did not evaluate Avast Antivirus 4.7 2006.Īlwil is located in the Czech Republic. In the latest test results from, Avast Antivirus 4.7 earned an Advanced rating (the second highest), catching 93 percent of all malware tested. To determine how well a product will protect your PC, we refer to test results from two leading independent antivirus testing organizations. However, we did find that when generating the VRDB, Avast soared into the 40 percent system resources territory. And, of course, a firewall would also be nice.Īlthough we have not scheduled Avast Antivirus for formal benchmark testing through CNET Labs, we did find in informal testing that Avast Antivirus used no more than 10 percent of our system resources during a number of different scans-a fairly light performance hit. Next, though it would be optional, it would be good to have antiphishing tools included as McAfee and others are doing with their antivirus products.
Also, most antivirus products include some antispyware protection, but not Avast. What's missing in both editions is explicit protection from rootkits, a major security concern these days. The Enhanced User Interface features include on-demand virus updates, program and virus updates, and Go To Background, which throttles back to low priority the resources used by Avast Antivirus so you can work in Excel or any other application without latency. Most useful within the paid edition is a second, more advanced user interface. Whether these features are worth the extra cash is up to you.
AVAST CLEANUP CNET PROFESSIONAL
What's included in the Professional edition that you won't find in the free Home version are push updates (meaning that Alwil will deploy high-priority changes to your program rather than you requesting them or waiting for the next automatic update), a script blocker (a heuristic to analyze javascript and Active X), custom tasks (such as setting Avast to run whenever your screensaver kicks in), a scheduler, and a command-line scanner (for initiating scans at a C: prompt, for example).
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