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There are many free antivirus in the market and certainly, Avast antivirus is one of the antivirus brand to watch out for. I am sure that you had tried before other free antivirus such as AVG, Avira and ClamWin and I am sure as well you had heard of Avast antivirus. What I am going to do today is not to put a comparison between Avast antivirus and the others, but to give a personal review on this product. Unlike any other reviews, you are not going to see the technical specifications as I am sure you can see those things by yourself on the Avast antivirus official website. What I am going to review are my personal opinions regarding this product from installation and the usage. Let’s begin, shall we?
Avast antivirus version 6 released three types of security product which are Avast Home, Avast Pro and Avast Internet Security. My review for this entry will be the Avast antivirus Home edition which is also known as the free version. As it is a free version, what you will get is pretty limited. You will not have the innovative SafeZone, firewall and antispam feature. Those mentioned features are either available on Avast antivirus Pro onwards or Avast Internet Security only. If you are interested on what those features are capable of, you can read the information at the Avast official site. I will insists to focus my review on the Avast antivirus Home edition.
The size of the Avast antivirus installer is around 50 MB. Not a very large file and you can get it downloaded at most 30 minutes on a bad day. The installation is also pretty fast and you can get both the downloading and installation process done within 45 minutes at most. Just like any other paid antivirus around, the after-installation of Avast antivirus does not require your system to restart which is quite a trend for all the antivirus nowadays. No one likes to restart after installing something and i am glad that Avast did put a consideration into this. Before you can fully utilize the antivirus, you will be asked to register yourself. The registration can be completed within the application itself and thus, there is no need for email verification or what so ever. You can also enter invalid information as Avast antivirus did not perform any serious checking or validation on this.
Some users are pretty concerned about the boot up speed after installing antivirus. I had one of my computer which runs on Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 and it was a nightmare whenever I restart my system. However, that computer of mine enabled a lot of security features from other security software that made my boot up time slow. I did not spend my time to investigate what caused my system to be slow, but I installed Avast antivirus on a fresh Windows 7 Ultimate trial version for this round of review. The time it took for my system to fully boot up was not much of different between before Avast antivirus was installed and after. I had my screenshot below. The result might varies if the machine is no longer a fresh machine.
Avast works great on Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 95/98/Me and also on 64 bit operative systems. It’s faster than any other commercial antivirus and requires less RAM memory. The Professional version has some additional functions: Command-line scanner, defining your own antivirus tasks, working and storing the task results, Push updates and Script Blocker.
f you’re a home user and need a FREE Antivirus this is your best choice. The other option is AVG Antivirus Free Edition, but Avast has more useful features in the FREE version than AVG, like Anti-spyware protection and Anti-rootkit protection.
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