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Description of avast! Free Antivirus

avast! Free Antivirus is a full-featured product, with the same antivirus and anti-spyware scanning engine used in our premium products. Leaner and meaner version 6.0 provides even faster protection than its predecessor (which often outperformed competitors' paid-for products in independent testing) and offers a web-reputation browser extension as well as virtualization technology. Accurate threat updates via avast! CommunityIQ technology ensure worry-free downloading, surfing, social networking, and gaming – for over 140 million registered users (and over 120 million active users).

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• Reviewed by: ByteRider

  12-30-2011

  Duration of ownership: 2 Months

  Strengths: Self-defense

  Weaknesses: Slow

  Overall Evaluation: Better than Windows Defender x1000!

• Reviewed by: brainpup

  10-20-2011

  Duration of ownership: 3 Years

  Strengths: Updates Virus signatures automatically ( gives you an audio notice ) light on resources, user friendly interface, the Boot Scanner is the ticket too.

  Weaknesses: None really...it might let some low rated junk slip thru , but then nothing catches everything.

  Overall Evaluation: Ok look, 1st off, I'm BACK...I'm sorry I left you...no really I am, when I just did a recent reformat/reinstall on my Main Rig I installed Microsoft's Security Essentials just to test out my new modded/hacked version of Windows 7 Ultimate to see if it would pass all of MS's Updates and Software compatibility,(psst..it did) So I have been using MS's protection now for 2 days and this mornng I got whacked, so I am at PCWorld.com right now because I am Reinstalling AVAST back on this Rig, you see ol' Bill G's stuff let me get hit with a Trojan/redirect.generic/sys32 infection and his shiott didn't catch it. I uninstalled MS's SE and installed AVAST and ran a Boot Scan and POOF it found the culprit...(dam thing was hijacking my home page and redirecting me to some stupid looking web advertising pages ) NOTE: when my newly reborn system started acting funny last night I ran the Online Virus scanners from Panda, McAfee, Norton, F-Secure, AVG and Bit-Defender and none of them found the Trojan. But Avast's Boot Scan found it, most of those other programs don't even have a Boot Scanner...AVAST IS THE BEST FREE ANTIVIRUS PROGRAM OUT THERE AND AS GOOD AS OR BETTER THAN ALL THE PAID PRODUCTS. I'm looking to buy the Full Blown Product..its that good.

• Reviewed by: kelsci

  09-15-2011

  Duration of ownership: 7 Days

  Strengths: Seems to do things right. If you want a file to go through without the sandbox set-up, what ever you choose goes through correctly. Autotatic quick update and a voice comes up to tell you so.

  Weaknesses: none

  Overall Evaluation: I like this product very much. Defintely much thought went into it; more so than other programs

• Reviewed by: dennis0623

  09-15-2011

  Duration of ownership: 5 Years

  Strengths: I have never had any problems, none what so ever, since I started using Avast, while others fell short. Super Job

  Weaknesses: None that I can see

  Overall Evaluation: The best on the free market, maybe the paid ones also.

• Reviewed by: djgriffin1

  09-15-2011

  Duration of ownership: 6 Years

  Strengths: This product is outstanding. I have used it for 6 years and never been disappointed. Wide rage on monitors that are controllable for what the user needs.

  Weaknesses: none

  Overall Evaluation: I have never had a virus with this program. That's the best rating you can get!

• Reviewed by: stevo420

  09-06-2011

  Duration of ownership: 3 Years

  Strengths: It keeps them out just as good as any of the paid versions or other brands. It took care of a virus issue I had on a network when a paid version of CA Internet Security could not.

  Weaknesses: The new pop up ads, which really are not that bad but I had to think of something. They only appear once in a while.

  Overall Evaluation: AWESOME, best free antivirus ever. I put it on all my clients computers.

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