Is avast! good enough?

//siddhartha// · 29-04-2005, 11:04 PM

Is avast! antivirus effective enough over fighting VIRUSES.. Since, it is freeware, I doubt its use.
Norton Antivirus is very heavy on my system resources and I need to find an alternative as a home user with practically little internet use.

Should avast! be trusted? I hve ZoneLabs firewall installed and also Ad-aware for fighting hackers and adwares.. So, all that is left is a good antivirus agent..

29-04-2005, 11:09 PM

try nod32

//siddhartha// · 29-04-2005, 11:22 PM

IS NOD 32 free?

techno_funky · 30-04-2005, 12:09 AM

nod 32 aint free
iam using Avast home edition (free)
and i love it
light on the system
updates autiomatically-small dload files
damn so many shields

1) Im Shield
2)Network Shield
3)P2P Shield
4)Standard Shield
5)Web Shield
6)Internet mail Shield
7)outlook Shield
Phew!!!

and well as far as my computer is concerned
caught any bad activity immediately

p.s : this one should be in the QnA section
moving it there

krisjr · 30-04-2005, 12:24 AM

am using AVAST..its light and many shields..but my take is its not tat comprehensive or efficient as may be paid version of AVAST or norton etc..still my opinion...

krishnathelord · 30-04-2005, 01:30 AM

i m also using avast 4.6 prof and i m quite satisfied

8)

drvarunmehta · 30-04-2005, 02:12 AM

I have tried other free AV's like AVG, Antivir but none of them have found viruses that avast has. plus its the lightest on the system and has really small updates. trust me, avast is even better than paid alternatives like norton.

anandk · 30-04-2005, 08:47 AM

avast is good !
so are bitdefender and avg.

nod32 has a beta version presently available. its free. its also good.

SmoothCriminal · 30-04-2005, 08:51 AM

one more vote for avast

iinfi · 30-04-2005, 02:43 PM

Avast is very very gud ..... jus install it ...switch on automatic updates and forget about it ....

its new web scanner feature has some campatibility problems with zone alarm .....
till such time Zone Labs and Alwil Software fix the problem u can turn of the web scanner feature ...... its fine if you turn it off !!!

cheers !!

sidewinder · 01-05-2005, 02:01 AM

the prob with free avast is it doesnt have script blocker...only available in pro version

koolbluez · 01-05-2005, 07:15 PM

Avast is the freeway 2 go.....

stalin · 01-05-2005, 08:15 PM

AVG feel better for me. when i install kazaa once some how (using Avast fully update) i found virus in my system. It automatically send files from my system to Network in minutes I can see around 100 -200 MB is sending. I can't connect Interent. Avast did find the virus. AVG cleaned the Virus some exploit virus or adware. Now i'm happy with AVG

vysakh · 01-05-2005, 08:48 PM

Avast Free edition is good one

I had some problems when i converted it to Professional edition

mako_123 · 01-05-2005, 08:52 PM

I am using Avast in my Hostel and there are around 5 viruses like Korgo, Lovegate, blaster etc in Our LAN , but i havent faced any problem and its updates are also small and easy to download.

stalin · 01-05-2005, 09:05 PM

Ok let me try Avast Now.

navjotjsingh · 02-05-2005, 01:13 PM

I am so much fed up of jumping on diff avs that i have stopped using any av. In 6 years only 6 viruses attacked and of them 5 due to corrupt floppies. So for me spywares are a bigger threat than virus.

chinmay · 03-05-2005, 02:23 PM

See guyz...whenever we say avast is good the first reason for that is it is free...what we wanna say is it is good being a freeware...but when u compare it with the paid antivirus giants like NAV or Mcaffe, is the performance equally good? I wonder about it quite a bit..I am currently using NAV 2005 but i am not very satisfied because even after fully updating it cant detect a virus which has removed "Appearance" and "Desktop" Tab from my Display Properties...secondly can you suggest a third party firewall (or is windows firewall good enough?..i dont think so) which won't lower my current cable net speed at all...

//siddhartha// · 03-05-2005, 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chinmay_d

See guyz...whenever we say avast is good the first reason for that is it is free...what we wanna say is it is good being a freeware...but when u compare it with the paid antivirus giants like NAV or Mcaffe, is the performance equally good? I wonder about it quite a bit..I am currently using NAV 2005 but i am not very satisfied because even after fully updating it cant detect a virus which has removed "Appearance" and "Desktop" Tab from my Display Properties...secondly can you suggest a third party firewall (or is windows firewall good enough?..i dont think so) which won't lower my current cable net speed at all...

The best firewall would be ZoneAlarm (visit www.zonelabs.com) firstly because it is free and offers supreme protection against hackers. Microsoft has greatly improved its firewall in SP2 but it still needs drastic changes. Moreover, I would recommend you Ad-aware (www.lavasoftusa.com) as a great tool for removing spyware and malicious software from your PC.
As for Avast!, I have loved its interface and I am discovering more and more things about Avast! and am loving it more. Well, true its work may not be as high as those of paid ones like NAV 2005 or McAfee but its work is ver very good and it can placed at somewhere near NAV 2005.
I hope my trust in Avast! deepens everyday...
-Siddhartha

yehmeriidhain · 03-05-2005, 06:25 PM

I wonder

noone has talked abt Pc-cillin as yet! i'm using it! & it is excellent! no spywares! no virus! everything! is just working great!

& abt this Avast have to try yet!

chinmay · 04-05-2005, 11:17 AM

maan...i hate pc cillin...i used it 2 years back n my comp was flooded with viruses on a fully updated av...secondly guyz...does zonealarm slows internet speed...and is there any prob if i use win xp firewall along eith zone alarm or shud i disable win xp firewall?

//siddhartha// · 04-05-2005, 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chinmay_d

maan...i hate pc cillin...i used it 2 years back n my comp was flooded with viruses on a fully updated av...secondly guyz...does zonealarm slows internet speed...and is there any prob if i use win xp firewall along eith zone alarm or shud i disable win xp firewall?

No, ZoneAlarm infact has an inbuilt ad stopper due to which every big ads of Flash, or images is immediately replaced by a word [AD] and so the speed is increased. Moreover, if you have the latest verion continue using it along with the Windows Firewall ( I assume you have WIN XP SP2) In the Security Center, you will have the option of choosing your firewall. It integrates with your current Windows Firewall and offers more reliable security..
-Siddhartha

kumarmohit · 23-05-2005, 11:48 PM

As far as I know AVg free can only detect and not remove viruses- Avast can do that thanks to Virus recovery database system and its skinnable that makes it real cool..

mohit · 24-05-2005, 01:41 AM

i have used n number of anti-virus programs like avast, avg, anti vir, nav, kav, nod 32, pc-cillin , mcafee, e-trust etc etc ... and what i have seen is for freeware avast is no doubt the best. it is very light and has a very very good detection and removal rate. avg i have experienced is only capable of detection and not removal. for paid anti virus software i think kaspersky is best. right now i am using nod 32 (installed just 2 days back) and its quite decent i feel. btw avast is much much better than some paid software.

expertno.1 · 24-05-2005, 07:22 AM

the pro version of avast one of the best antiviruses of the world

ranking beteween top 5

but home edition is also good

it may be betwen top 10

King_Niral · 24-05-2005, 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iinfi

Avast is very very gud ..... jus install it ...switch on automatic updates and forget about it ....

its new web scanner feature has some campatibility problems with zone alarm .....
till such time Zone Labs and Alwil Software fix the problem u can turn of the web scanner feature ...... its fine if you turn it off !!!

cheers !!

hey avast even has a problem with sygate or something COz it seems to run properly !!!!

BUT AVAST IS ONE OF THE BEST ANTIVIRUSES I HAVE USED !!!

CHEERS !!!