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23 out of 30 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.8.1229.80923
"it work better then other and no nag screen"
Pros: it was a lot of shields and light on the system ram
Cons: no proactive protection but it coming soon to it but now use threat fire for that part to help
Summary: it work all that is needed is proactive protection
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17 out of 22 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.8.1229.80923
Pros: Free
Many real-time shields
Good detection, with an unrestricted engineCons: No proactive detection
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6 out of 12 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.8.1229.80923
"This product completely paralysed my computer!"
Pros: What is there to like about this?! It wouldn't let me do any work; it wasn't user-friendly; it paralysed my system.
Cons: Everything. The gui was unintuitive, and not clear about what parameters I was able to set.
Summary: I really don't want this product back on my computer -- it doesn't work as advertised, and takes far too much processor time. A number of times, my computer was unresponsive to anything I wanted to do. I finally uninstalled, and now my computer wor... read more
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1 out of 6 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.8.1229.80923
Pros: free and nothing else
Cons: It screws up your computer and now I am trying to fix it
Summary: NEVER DOWNLOAD IT read more
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1 out of 4 people found this review helpful
1 stars
Version: Avast Home Edition 4.8.1229.80923
"Good Protection but slows computer!"
Pros: Great protection with great options!
Cons: Slows computer and freezes "log-in" to many sites. "including email-msn"
Summary: The protection and options that it offers is great, "the best FREE out there" but it's not worth it, to put up with the "slow downs" and pauses.
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