Old Versions of avast! Professional Antivirus?

Hi. I have an old computer running Windows 2000 Professional SP4, because XP is slow on it, but it’s too fast for 98, so it seems that 2000 was a happy medium. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone could please give me a link to avast! Professional 4.8. I really like the UI of it, and I just found my old key that I never used.

avast 7 runs on W2000

http://filehippo.com/download_avast_antivirus/tech/

I like the interface of 4.8 better than the newer ones, and it starts up much faster with the 4.8 Home version than with anything newer.

you find the old versions on right side there…see the list

@ tmcclelland47
Well support for avast 4.8 ceases at the end of this year (just over a month away), so it is effectively on life support.

Your old license is likely to have long expired as its license period starts at the time of purchase.

Hello tmcclelland47!

This is your opinion.
But I have seen: avast! 7 uses significant less of the computer resources compared to avast! 4.8 AND you have a better protection.
Windows 2000 together with avast! 7 Free has a memory consumption of approx. 120-130MB at idle (direct after startup).
So there should be enough resources for the additional programs.
For example: as you can see in my signature, I use avast! 7 on a PC with 256 MB RAM (800 MHz PIII) and I cannot say that the PC is very slow.
But nevertheless:

  1. pay attention that there are not too many programs in the autostart section of your computer.
  2. install SP4 and UR1 before installing avast! 7 Free.

+1 :slight_smile:

INGBEAN

I have sp4 on it, but I have absolutely no idea what UR1 is. Could you tell me what it is, INGBEAN?

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=win2000+UR1

It is Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 SP4 (KB891861).

Please make sure you have the Update Rollup 1 installed (it’s required for avast!):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B54730CF-8850-4531-B52B-BF28B324C662&displaylang=en