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Avast Antivirus Professional
Last updated
April 23, 2007
April 23, 2007
Reviewed byRyan Naraine
Pros
Cons
| Full Specifications |
|---|
| Download price, 1-year license - $40 (3/31/07) |
| Renewal cost, per year - $28 (3/31/07) |
| Ease of use - Good |
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Malware detection rate
- 92%
File viruses
- 92%
Macro viruses - 99% Script viruses - 87% Polymorphic viruses - 88% ActiveX controls - 100% Back doors - 94% Bots/zombies - 97% Trojan horses - 88% Adware - 89% Dialers - 99% Number of false positives (out of 20,000 harmless files) - 5 Heuristic detection (one-month-old signatures) - 37% Heuristic detection (two-month-old signatures) - 28% Detection rate of malware within archived files - 44% |
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System disinfection
Detection rate of existing infections (10 infections)
- 100%
Disinfection rate (files, Hosts changes, Registry items) - 77% |
| Average time (in hours) to deliver signatures for new malware - 6 to 8 |
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Features
Right-click manual scans in Windows Explorer?
- Yes
E-mail protocols scanned - POP3, IMAP, SMTP Scan Web traffic? - Yes |
| Scan speed with standard settings, in seconds - 39 |
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System slowdown
With Firefox 2
- 11%
With Adobe Photoshop CS2 - 5% With Microsoft Office 2003 - 4% |
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Support policies
Daily support hours
- 0
Saturday support hours - 0 Sunday support hours - 0 Free phone support - No Toll-free phone number - No Cost of phone support - n/a Live chat support? - No E-mail support? - Yes |
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