Downloads Beta

Editor's Review of avast! Home Edition

Not a member? Register Now.

Add Your Review

Email Address	Password	Forgot your password?

Submit your Review

How long have you used this software?
Days Weeks Months Years

On a scale of 1 to 5 stars, how would you rate this product?

		Superior
		Very Good
		Good
		Fair
		Poor

What are this product's strengths?

What are this product's weaknesses?

What's your overall evaluation?

Most recent User Reviews for avast! Home Edition

• 

  Reviewed by: rythemboy

  08-11-2008

  Duration of ownership: 1 Years

  Strengths: Not invasive. You don't get the bothersome updates that take forever (such as Norton, which charges you a subscription). It updates daily for free. Automatically. You don't need a clunky "live update" box.

  Weaknesses: Haven't found one.

  Overall Evaluation: The best so far.

• 

  Reviewed by: UniteX

  07-22-2008

  Duration of ownership: 6 Months

  Strengths: Very easy to use and automatically updates.

  Weaknesses: Doesn't find much Tracker Cookies, if any.

  Overall Evaluation: Found a whole slew of viruses that Norton did not. Avast rocks. Nothing to it.

• 

  Reviewed by: Don1

  05-26-2008

  Duration of ownership: 1 Months

  Strengths: simple use,set it up and it does the rest. email spam is gone. I had norton 360 before. never again.

  Weaknesses: None

  Overall Evaluation: when i installed this it found a virus norton had let on to my computer. Avast is all I will use now.

• 

  Reviewed by: SteveGinIL

  02-15-2008

  Duration of ownership: 12 Months

  Strengths: Simplicity, painless installation ( Norton, you SOBs! ), effective interdiction of viruses, automatic updates are excellent, low memory footprint

  Weaknesses: One of the alerts is ambiguous/unclear

  Overall Evaluation: I recommend this software to everyone. Norton users I know are complete morons, saying that Avast couldn't be any good because Norton is the standard. This was recommended by someone online who said that Avast installs quickly and painlessly, and that it takes up like 90% less hard drive space and 90% less CPU usage. I have found that my PC runs much faster, and I don't have NOrton in my face every few weeks telling me that I have to do this or that or the sky is going to fall down around my sorry ass. Ratings: AVAST: 4.85; Norton: 2.0

• 

  Reviewed by: crtrie

  01-30-2008

  Duration of ownership: 2 Years

  Strengths:

  Weaknesses:

  Overall Evaluation: I read the review by choluk. He criticized the constant asking for a registry key. I think he may have made a mistake when a pop-up window came up. He should have picked the demo option, which would have given him 60 days of trial. Toward the end of that period you are given the opportunity to get a key, which is free, and once you are sent that key and enter it you are not bothered for another 18 months. It is a great anti-virus program, especially at that price.

• 

  Reviewed by: choluk

  01-06-2008

  Duration of ownership: 2 Months

  Strengths: This appears to be an OK anti-virus, but READ below.

  Weaknesses: EVERY DAY I get messages from them to 'register' to get my 'key'. After about 2 weeks of getting the SAME 'key' number, I just started deleting the pop-up at start up. What a royal pain! It's not wort the aggrivation to have it. Go on to something else!

  Overall Evaluation: This is the most persistent sales pitch I've seen. It keeps coming back again and again and again and again and again forever. Total lowball trash. Email them and you get ZERO response.

See more user reviews »