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Hi ng,
what do you think about Avast antivirus Home edition? (It's freeware).

Thanks!
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In most ordinary pc use and problem solving AVAST is an acceptably well
working tool... especially compared to price. Antivir is also acceptable!

But, if you really get "shit in the fan" you must know that you either have
to...

The variation of virus aggressivity is huge. Most do basicly "nothing" while
there today are some that really tries to "invade your pc". Often done by
(hidden) downloading of other malware which fast corrupts many little things
unpredictably.

A) use all available freeware together to fix rough viruses (Antivir,
Avast, SpyBot, Adaware, X-cleaner, X-RayPC, Bazooka and /or use free
OL-scanners like Kaspersky, BitDefender etc.)

B) Buy a few of the best. Kaspersky (or Nod32) antivirus, Trojan Hunter.
Stop'n'load firewall. (SpyBot and Adaware still as complement)

....and then they MUST be adjusted for most thorough (deep heuristic) scan to
really sweep what they can.

But, for most cases and when surfing wisely using safe hex... things remains
calm and 1 of the free scanners saves your ass.

Morgan O.
 
Hi ng,
what do you think about Avast antivirus Home edition? (It's freeware).
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avoid it like the corlissian plague it is. when it comes to a/v, you
get what you pay for. however, avg comes close to being useful.
 
Slowhand said:
avoid it like the corlissian plague it is. when it comes to a/v, you
get what you pay for. however, avg comes close to being useful.
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In what particular way do you find avast! so inferior to AVG?

Personally I find them both to be very competent. I find avast! less
cumbersome to use and maintain, although AVG does have an edge in resource
usage. And no matter how much money you fork out on anti-software, you are
kidding yourself if you think it makes you 100% safe.
 
ra said:
Hi ng,
what do you think about Avast antivirus Home edition? (It's freeware).
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Works very well for me!

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ra said:
Hi ng,
what do you think about Avast antivirus Home edition? (It's freeware).

Thanks!
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It seems to be very aggressive, and appears to be a good product. It's
pretty complicated and comes with good configuration options. But I
don't think that I can keep using it on my machine.

My computer runs Windows ME at 720 MHZ; it's maxed out with memory. Even
with minimal settings, I'm finding that Avast, in combination with
Sygate, is running too many processes too often (in the "background")
for my computer to operate well. I'm getting short audio drops quite
often, for example.

(I believe that I just read that Intel has made a business deal with
Grisoft [AVG], so this leaves Avast as the remaining independent AV
company in the Czech Republic.)

Richard
 
Great!

Automatic pattern updates!
Automatic program updates!


Hi ng,
what do you think about Avast antivirus Home edition? (It's freeware).

Thanks!
 
ra said:
Hi ng,
what do you think about Avast antivirus Home edition? (It's freeware).
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I like avast even though it's a memory hog. Use a memory manager
with it. I also use f-prot for dos as a secondary antivirus program.
I also use spybot s+d. Try adaware. regards, He2
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On Thu 08 Sep 2005 15:44:19, Morten Skarstad wrote:
In what particular way do you find avast! so inferior to AVG?

Personally I find them both to be very competent. I find avast!
less cumbersome to use and maintain, although AVG does have an
edge in resource usage. And no matter how much money you fork
out on anti-software, you are kidding yourself if you think it
makes you 100% safe.
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Avast can be heavy on system resources.
 
ra said:
Hi ng,
what do you think about Avast antivirus Home edition? (It's freeware).

Thanks!
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On my site as a "Best Of" pick for three years running.

Plusses - Program Auto update, Definitions Auto update. Scheduled
scans. On-access scanning. No spyware. Skinnable.

Minuses - It's a little slow on my 350 98se test box, but anything
faster, no problem at all.

Nitpicks (annoyances that don't effect performance).- No way to turn off
the auditory notify of virus def update (There is a hack to change it
somewhere). Have to register for a key, and the registration is only
good for a year.

Info: Avast is the free-personal edition to advertise their server-based
antivirus solution. If the personal version is any guess the server app
is very good, vary easy and inexpensive -as such, a good choice for a
small business which may not be able to afford the time and money that
goes into Norton AV server.

Conclusion: You can find a more thorough AV choice, but not one that is
more convenient.

John H.

www.jhoodsoft.org

"Best of Free Business Software"
 
domenica 11 settembre 2005 John Hood ha scritto:
Nitpicks (annoyances that don't effect performance).- No way to turn off
the auditory notify of virus def update (There is a hack to change it
somewhere).
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Then it isn't true that there is no way ;-)

It's an option, easy to find:

Program settings - Sounds ->
Disable avst! sounds
or
Settings
to choose which ones to disable

I agree with you it's the "Best Of".
 
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