Hi all,

Since most of us using Antivir have been having trouble updating it I started thinking of using some other AV proggie, I dont like to stay up till 03h00 in the morning to try and update it:(

So, anyway, I've got this Avast now just to try it and so far it seems pretty good

Now, my question is: does anyone else know this AV proggie? and what do you think of it compared to Antivir?

Thanks
Wicked

Originally posted by Wicked101:

My computer files are protected by Avast! Home Edition.

IMO, this is one of the best free AV programs.
+ Does not eat a lot of computer resources, takes about 10mb of memory when idling.
+ Have protections/scanning ability for email, web, im, p2p programs.
+ Updates almost daily and the update files are not so big.
++ Boot-time scanner
+ And it is translated to Finnish...
- In free, home edition there is no protection for malicious scripts.

Thanks for the reply Wilhelmus, I saw all of that as well when I installed it, and it looked pretty good to me, but I had to get a second opinion

So far I like it, now I can install it on the other 3 PC's as well

Well...some extra stuff. Boot time scanning is only for NT based machines. Not sure about NT4. I haven't tested that. But with XP and 2k, there it is. 9x, there is no boot time.

Also, dial-up users seem to have problems sending out large emails. So, I recommend, disabling smtp scanning if you are dial-up.

I recommend the following with the scanner. A boot time scan, a safe scan scan. After that you should be fine.

Oh, and I have see some machines do a boot time scan. "Kill" some virii, then boot normal, and find more viruses.

Personally, I like Avast!. I'm using pro right now.

The company that has avast has a few other programs they are using too. One is a recovery software that sux comapred to winternals ERC commander. Another is a network based virus scanner.