It seems that all voters agree that avast home should not have all of the same features as the Pro version. Thank you for all of your opinions.
No. If you cancel the avast! Pro version Alwil company will remove the Home version. It’s logic, who will pay them?
No way. For Home version to live it must have the Pro version. To anyone buy the Pro it should have an advantage. In fact, I think there are very few. I mean, the major concurrent of avast! Pro is avast! Home.
Definetively not. Home version should be a minor version of the Pro one.
Please, let the Home version free.
Other companies do not even have a free version: Symantec, Kaspersky, McAfee, Dr. Web, NOD, Norman, etc. etc.
I think that the home version should remain with some features disabled
I agree with Tech 100%.
Like what Tech always said, The people of alwil need to eat too! ;D
Home Editon already provides a decent protection for ordinary users. If you want more kick out of avast! then buy the Pro edition. The people of alwil were very generous to give us the Home Edition for free cause they know that some people who owns a home/family PC might not be able to afford a antivirus software. 
Are you kidding? :o
For free antivirus, doesn’t avast! home edition offer you enough protection? for me avast! home with its fast and reliable update mechanism are more enough.
Alternatively, if you want the world-class-full-featued antivirus you can get eTrust EZ Antivirus from CA one year for free, over 95% of fortune 500 companies use CA software, shouldn’t you? ;D
I like Avast Home Edition free the way it is, and certainly don’t need to have the pro goodies. The free version updates almost everyday automatically, and lots of other freebies make you do it manually. (You pay for automatic updates).
I love Avast and although I did pay for Norton’s 1 year subscription service as of this summer, have uninstalled Norton AV to use Avast instead.
Of course, I am just a home computer user, and haven’t ever had many problems with viruses.
Now getting Malware and Spyware that is another thing. Just downloaded Spyware blaster and installed a week ago,and have not had anything found in Spybot or Adaware since.
That is another great program.
;D ;D
I voted “No”
My reason is the same as Tech’s… 8)
lol, if it still remains free then yes
But that’s highly unlikely.
Avast Home is perfect as it is, provides excellent protection and has a lot of features for a free product.
Of course more features are welcome but remember the best feature is that it is free.
i agree with all of you i just wanted to know what others thought.
I can’t see the purpose of this or how is it possible to ask the question and also have the opinion to leave it as it is?
If there is no Pro version (or no difference from the Home version) how would Alwil survive without making a small charge for the Home (the name would now be defunct) version?
If this were to happen I feel there would be no free version, many who started out on the free version have upgraded to the Pro version, so there would be no incentive for them to do this.
I voted no. I want Avast! to stay active and in development. That cant happen without some form of paid support. Pro must remain more functional than home for this to work.
I find that the ALWIL would have to more work in the question of the interface of avast home and professional, becoming prettier. Also in the question of the sweepings speed that is a little slow.
But the Alwil is of congratulations for the work and avast is one anti-virus very good.
I’m happy with current Home Ed feature set and I think the difference between Home and Pro edition should remain as it is now.
Yo Joooo !!! (Hi in RAP language ;D )
What do you mean by “PRETTIER” ? Something like Vanessa Williams, or more like Pamela Anderson ? It’s little buit confusing and you have to give us a clue… :o
;D ;D
Edit: Or you maybe meant something like Naomi Campbell ? ;D
What I want to say with “prettier” is:
That the simple interface has prettier icons and buttons, as what it was mentioned that in the next update avast will have better icons.
Nowadays anti-virus is with interfaces more easy to use and friendlier, I know that it said this other times but I find that I would be excellent avast to have an interface thus.
as long as the interface is easy to understand than it is no problem. Now if it has a good looking interface and is easy to understand than great but it is not likely. Thats what i like about avast because you can change the interface with new skins.
Exactly Justin1278… good point. And I also tried to give my best to offer as many as possible different skins. I made this post in another thread today as well… and I posted some pictures (shrinked) of those skins that I tried to give a little bit more professional feeling to it. I don’t know if I suceeded 100%, but at least I know I gave my best…
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=16600.msg140972#msg140972
@ Joooo - Of course, here is a thread where I posted all those new icons I made for avast! On-Access Scanner panel… it’s just up to Alwil if they want to take my offer. Here they are, pretty and free…
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=12640.msg136747#msg136747
Cheers !
Sasha
With these new icons avast will go to be very better.
A question when will only be the launching of the new update that will have these new icons?