Comparison between Avast and AntiVir?

[David Peters]

Does anyone have a comparison between the *free* versions of Avast
and AntiVir? Their websites don't reveal much:

AntiVir Personal Edition: http://www.free-av.com/
Avast Home Edition: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

 

[Old Gringo]

Does anyone have a comparison between the *free* versions of Avast
and AntiVir? Their websites don't reveal much:

AntiVir Personal Edition: http://www.free-av.com/
Avast Home Edition: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

I did a 3mo. test on each and settled for Avast. Selecting an AV is
kind of a personal thing. There are many who prefer one over the
other making it difficult to decide by someone else suggestions.
Best thing to do is give them both a try for a period of time and
then decide for yourself. Good Luck with your decision.

 

[jimpgh2002]

Does anyone have a comparison between the *free* versions of Avast
and AntiVir? Their websites don't reveal much:

AntiVir Personal Edition: http://www.free-av.com/
Avast Home Edition: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

I settled on Avast after trying them both.

 

[Bob Adkins]

Does anyone have a comparison between the *free* versions of Avast
and AntiVir? Their websites don't reveal much:

AntiVir Personal Edition: http://www.free-av.com/
Avast Home Edition: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

AV-Comparatives has a good comparison.

http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2005_05.php

(Look at the TOTALS row)

 

[ms]

Does anyone have a comparison between the *free* versions of Avast
and AntiVir? Their websites don't reveal much:

AntiVir Personal Edition: http://www.free-av.com/
Avast Home Edition: http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

I've never tried Avast. On an old P166, only 96 MB RAM, AntiVir does what I
want: ondemand, non-invasive, resonable memory usage.

Mike Sa

 

[GMF]

I like AntiVir and have used it off and on for the past two years. It
has one fault which made me switch to Avast, however. It doesn't
handle viruses that come in as mail attachements very well. In the
older versions, if I selected "delete virus" when an incoming
attachment was detected as a virus, AntiVir would delete the entire
contents of my Thunderbird inbox! On the newer versions, the ONLY
option you can select when an an incoming mail attachment is detected
as a virus is "allow access," which sort of seems silly.

Avast on the other hand allows the deletion of the attachment without
harming the e-mail message itself or the inbox database of
Thunderbird.