Avast! Antivirus 4.1.396, Home Edition

Capricornxs · #1 9th May 04, 05:55 AM

Homie · #2 9th May 04, 10:00 AM

Yup, best choise if you don't wanna buy antivirussoftware

Homie

MinnesotaKid · #3 11th May 04, 02:55 PM

I am reminded of the old saying "you get what you pay for". This product is gradually becoming a better performing and reliable av choice, but I wouldn't trust it at this point to protect my systems.

Sure, the price point is very inviting, but if it doesn't stop viruses I don't care if it is free.

Note: I base my opinion on www.virusbulletin.com, where this product has twice as many fails as it does passes.

Normally, I wouldn't rip a free product, but stopping viruses is so important that I thought I would toss in my 2 pennies

MNKid

adams · #4 11th May 04, 07:33 PM

i started using this after using avg free version because avg wasn't updating on a regular basis. avast updates regularly and has protected me already.

but my isp catches most of the viruses in my emails so that helps.

roadworker · #5 11th May 04, 09:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by MinnesotaKid@May 11 2004, 12:55 PM
Sure, the price point is very inviting, but if it doesn't stop viruses I don't care if it is free.

Note: I base my opinion on www.virusbulletin.com, where this product has twice as many fails as it does passes.

Indeed,twice as much fails as passes,but if you check this list:http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archiv....xml?avist.xml
you'll notice that it got the 100% award for most recent operating systems,except win2003,which wasn't officially supported at the testing time.....

I use win 2k and win XP as dualboot,and Avast is tested with both of them and gets the 100% virusbulletin award,which gives me a pretty fine feeling