Avast AntiVirus Professional v 4.8 Review
May 28, 2009 by AntivirusWare.
Avast is one of the big 3 in the free Antivirus market (along with AVG Antivirus, and Avira Antivir), but let’s see how its paid version compares to the rest of the commercial antivirus software.
Our review of Avast AntiVirus Professional (see screenshots of Avast Antivirus) found it to be better than AVG but not as good as Avira - in the testing of their paid “Professional” versions. Our Antivirus Testing found that Avast was quite good Performance-wise — finishing 4th overall (just behind its competitor Avira). This was quite good testing for Avast - it finished ahead of some fairly big names including Kaspersky and McAfee.
Where Avast stumbled was in its Effectiveness at stopping Viruses and other Malware. Avast v4.8 only received 1 out of 3 stars in one of the major AV tests of the year (performed by AV-Comparatives). This makes Avast’s virus protection suspect - thus we would recommend getting another Antivirus download product such as Norton or Eset’s NOD32.