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Telkomisaloser
Ninja
I'm also a Avast fan 
Toxin
Expert Member
Also moved over from AVG to Avast. 
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
agreed! you know I am all for free software.... but at this point in time, there is no one free anti-virus product that gets my nod.
For that reason I strongly suggest you get either Kaspersky, or if you can afford it, NOD32.
If you really really have to go with a free product, I would go with AVG free. Avast sucks... really bad.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
Lol..so 15 for avast..and you against itLol
Ja, ... it's the lesser of two evil evils.
1) Avast requires registration which kinda negates the whole "Free" issue for me.
2) It is more intrusive than AVG and irritating with it's constant announcements. It uses two tray icons (I know they can be combined), but that is just very poor and presumptuous behaviour on their part.
3) AVG releases updates quicker and more incrementally than Avast.
4) The active scanner in Avast often fails to load completely, rendering your system vulnerable. There is no warning when this happens.
5) AVG daily scans are quicker, yes I have timed them.
6) When Avast detects something and you try to add it to your exception list, Avast locks up, or just ignores your request.
7) Avast's interface is seriously cluttered and you have to drill down several layers to get at a setting. There is no common implementation for the various features.
Cloud
Expert Member
Ok, here is my 2c.
I play WoW and try to get the best latency possible.
Kaspersky and NOD32 both added about 100ms to my latency, after trying to tweak it and whatnot, it still affected the game so I ditched it.
Then I tried BitDefender and it worked 100% with no impact on my WoW latency.
Unfortunately, BitDefender 8 (which I bought and is licensed till August this year) does not work on Win 7.
So I am using Avast in the meantime, which also does not affect my latency.
Warning to AVG users
A girl in the office had her Gmail compromised and sent out spam to all her contacts - she was using AVG.
I then explained to her that AVG does not offer protection against keyloggers, which she most likely picked up.
I grabbed the following from Wikipedia:
According to AVG Technologies, over 80 million users have AVG Anti-Virus protection, including users of the Free Edition. On April 24, 2008, AVG released AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0. Along with a more colorful interface, the new program added some new features - a combined Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware protection engine, LinkScanner Search-Shield safe search protection, plus the AVG Security Toolbar - which were previously only available in AVG commercial versions.
There are some limitations with AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 compared to the commercial versions of AVG products. These limitations include:
* Less protection - AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 provides only base level protection against viruses, spyware and safe searching. It does not provide safe surfing (drive-by download protection) nor protection from crackers, keyloggers, spam, phishing attacks and malicious file downloads that can come through instant messaging and attachments from seemingly friendly sources. This protection is only available in the commercial versions of AVG products.
Not 100% sure if Avast blocks all keyloggers, but at least it does protect against some.
I play WoW and try to get the best latency possible.
Kaspersky and NOD32 both added about 100ms to my latency, after trying to tweak it and whatnot, it still affected the game so I ditched it.
Then I tried BitDefender and it worked 100% with no impact on my WoW latency.
Unfortunately, BitDefender 8 (which I bought and is licensed till August this year) does not work on Win 7.
So I am using Avast in the meantime, which also does not affect my latency.
Warning to AVG users
A girl in the office had her Gmail compromised and sent out spam to all her contacts - she was using AVG.
I then explained to her that AVG does not offer protection against keyloggers, which she most likely picked up.
I grabbed the following from Wikipedia:
According to AVG Technologies, over 80 million users have AVG Anti-Virus protection, including users of the Free Edition. On April 24, 2008, AVG released AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0. Along with a more colorful interface, the new program added some new features - a combined Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware protection engine, LinkScanner Search-Shield safe search protection, plus the AVG Security Toolbar - which were previously only available in AVG commercial versions.
There are some limitations with AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 compared to the commercial versions of AVG products. These limitations include:
* Less protection - AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0 provides only base level protection against viruses, spyware and safe searching. It does not provide safe surfing (drive-by download protection) nor protection from crackers, keyloggers, spam, phishing attacks and malicious file downloads that can come through instant messaging and attachments from seemingly friendly sources. This protection is only available in the commercial versions of AVG products.
Not 100% sure if Avast blocks all keyloggers, but at least it does protect against some.
cerebus
Honorary Master
I'm kinda excited about the microsoft antivirus starting next week.
WOW never heard of it.
cerebus
Honorary Master
Mm yeah hold on let me get the link for you: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10268040-83.html