avast! Professional Edition - System Requirements
Please note: hardware configurations described below represent the minimum recommended system specification for that operating system.
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For a computer running Windows® 95/98/Me:
486 Processor, 32MB RAM and 100MB of free hard disk space.
For a computer running Windows® NT® 4.0:
486 Processor, 24MB RAM and 100MB of free hard disk space and Service Pack 3 (or higher) installed
For a computer running Windows® 2000/XP® Workstation (Not Server):
Pentium class Processor, 64MB RAM (128MB recommended) and 100MB of free hard disk space
For a computer running Windows® XP® 64-bit Edition:
An AMD Athlon64, Opteron or Intel EM64T-enabled Pentium 4 / Xeon processor, 128MB RAM (256MB recommended) and 100MB of free hard disk space
For a computer running Windows® Vista, Windows® 7:
Pentium 4 processor, 512MB RAM and 100MB of free hard disk space
For a computer running Windows® Vista 64-bit Edition:
An AMD Athlon64, Opteron or Intel EM64T-enabled Pentium 4 / Xeon processor, 128MB RAM (256MB recommended) and 100MB of free hard disk space
The program itself requires about 60MB of hard disk space; the remainder of the recommended space is reserved for the virus recovery database file and its index (VRDB, also known as the "integrity database" from the previous version).
A functional MS Internet Explorer 4 or higher is required for the program to work.
This product cannot be installed on a server operating system (Windows NT/2000/2003/2008 Server families).
Note: The operating systems Windows 95/98/Me/NT4 will be supported until the end of 2009.
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avast! antivirus Professional Edition has received the Gold Malware Treatment Award from the Russian portal Anti-Malware.ru for its ability to detect and remove virus and other malware infections, without causing any damage to the host computer's operating system. In an October 2008 survey of 15 leading antivirus providers, avast! ranked 2nd and was one of only two providers able to remove both of the tested rootkit infections.
August, 2008 - this month's Virus Bulletin tests focused on Windows XP Service Pack 3. Once again, avast! 4 Professional Edition detected all In-The-Wild viruses (i.e. viruses known to be spreading between users), as well as over 97% of Trojans with no false positives as a result of which we have added yet another VB100 award to our tally!
avast! 4 Professional Edition 4.7.1015 has achieved a VB100 award in the latest Virus Bulletin comparative review on Windows Vista X64 Business Edition platform.
