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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful for avast! 4 Home Edition.

avast! 4 Home Edition, Sun Nov 01 2009
Reviewed By: nYdGeo

Yet another free anti-virus with a mixed past.
This is yet another product that I have a rather extensive past with. I used this on some of my PC's for quite a while, and had both good and bad experience.

This was the first free anti-virus that I found after AVG. By that time I was looking for other options, heard good about AVG from a family member and thought I'd give it a try.

Protection was mostly a good experience, but a good friend and I, each at different times with different files, had a virus slip past Avast. I was able to clean mine manually, but my friend (who didn't do these sort of things for a living) had to re-image his PC.

I also had several times where I found my PC largely non-responsive only to find that it was Avast executable files where the culprits, completely using every available CPU cycle.

I cannot in good conscience say that the avast! product is an altogether bad product, and there is certainly worse available...both free and for sale.

However, I believe that there are simply too many other options that are better, free and for sale, for me to use or recommend this product at this time.

Thank you for your time.

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8 of 18 people found the following review helpful for avast! 4 Home Edition.

avast! 4 review - advice for former Norton 360 users, Sat Jun 28 2008
Reviewed By: Bruce_T

I installed avast! 4 because the Norton 360 background scans were making my computer unusable. These background scans could not be stopped! If you install avast! 4, after you unistall Norton 360, you will have to use the Norton_Removal_Tool.exe, and buDump.exe (available from the Symantec site) or the remnants of Norton 360 will stop your browser and email from connecting to the internet. After I did this, avast! 4 is working perfectly. It is fast, doesn't hog resources, and my computer is now working like a Ferrari, not a Model-T Ford.

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8 of 20 people found the following review helpful for avast! 4 Home Edition.

Avast4home, Sun Jun 01 2008
Reviewed By: jimmy-j

I have been useing Avast for more than 3 years now and install it onto every machine I have or build for friends,etc.
I have had other brands norton being the worst for hogging resorces and will cause all kinds of problems if you even think about uninstalling it, where as with Avast IT installs without a fuss and after the initial set-up runs in the background with the program hogging some resources as and when it need to but if you play games as I do then disconnect from the internet and exit from the program whilst you play.

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2 of 18 people found the following review helpful for avast! 4 Home Edition.

Avast rocks!, Sun Sep 30 2007
Reviewed By: Piemaster

Avast
I was using Kaspersky Anti-Virus,but since my license ended,i downloaded Avast! Free Edition.I use it for over 1 year and with the help of ZoneAlarm Pro,no virus have harmed my computer!

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2 of 16 people found the following review helpful for avast! 4 Home Edition.

There's better free antivirus, Mon Apr 23 2007
Reviewed By: li

Try clamav(www.clamwin.com) instead. It's free & is 15Mb download. It has a bigger database than avast. AVG is too big a download now if your using dial-up.

I saw a magazine review which said AVG was a lot better than avast. Clamav have their own forum.

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6 of 23 people found the following review helpful for avast! 4 Home Edition.

Avast! Home Edition, Mon Mar 19 2007
Reviewed By: Jack

Best AV-Program I've ever installed
Installed Avast! on > 25 PC's, never had a virus complaint. Easyli installed, effective in virus combat, no speed retarder.
Thanks Alwil!

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2 of 15 people found the following review helpful for avast! 4 Home Edition.

avast 4.7, Tue Jan 30 2007
Reviewed By: Frank

best yet
Have used avast in the past,tried others.spent a fortune.Now back to using Avast (4.7)Avast v others? "no contest"

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0 of 14 people found the following review helpful for avast! 4 Home Edition.

Memory Used Up by ashWebSv.exe, Fri Dec 22 2006
Reviewed By: Lof

I found my pc using up 100% of memory and thought it was infected by a virus. I unloaded programs one by one at Task Manager and found that ashWebSv.exe was the culprit.

I discovered that this program belongs to AVAST! Why?

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2 of 14 people found the following review helpful for avast! 4 Home Edition.

avast! antivirus Home edition, Wed Sep 20 2006
Reviewed By: ion fotakis

I. Fotakis
I am using avast for the last 8 months both on Win 200 Pro and Win XP Home, without any dissapointment. This is far the best solution in the market for real time antivirus S/W, because it's free for home users and provides the same functionality with all the known antivirus products.

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2 of 16 people found the following review helpful for avast! 4 Home Edition.

avast! 4 Home Edition, Sun Sep 03 2006
Reviewed By: Barry Worrell

If you've read the other reviews, not much more to
I've used McAfee for several years and was very pleased with it. I got anotice to upgrade to theie latest version. I did and its almost paralyzed my pc. after checking some McAfee forums on the web, I found many who have had the same problem. McAfee has put a small notice my McAffe account page, which it took me two days to find it, but totally ignored my support ticket I submitted, and sent out no emails that they were having problems. That was enough for me to say so long to McAfee and hello to avast 4.

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