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Now through December 5th 2009, avast! Professional Edition is promoted at an exclusive discounted price of only $32.00.

With over 80,000,000 users worldwide, avast! Professional Edition is a leading product in the antivirus field. avast! 4 Professional Edition came in with a disappointing sixth-place finish in "Virus Stoppers," our eight-program antivirus roundup, despite a decent 92 percent success rate at detecting malware (compared to 96 percent for top performers).

Its ranking was hurt by its poor performance in our proactive tests: avast! caught only 37 percent of new malware using one-month-old signature files, the second-worst showing. For disinfection, its performance was about average. It cleaned all infected files, but missed changes to the Hosts network settings file and some less-important Registry entries, catching 78 percent of all possible items.

avast! 4 Professional Edition installed smoothly, with appropriate default settings for the average person. It offers two interface options: One is a distinct, media player-type control panel that makes it easy to figure out how to launch a scan or set a manual boot-time scan; a second "enhanced interface" lets you access and fine-tune more settings, but it's not nearly as user-friendly as the other option.