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From: JonC on 25 May 2010 17:33 Which is the best Avast or Avira please? Answers prefered from people who have used both.Thanks.
From: Steve Terry on 25 May 2010 18:13 "JonC" <skye3987(a)omitgmail.com> wrote in message news:MPG.2666529c3dc57ea09896c2(a)usenet.plus.net... > > Which is the best Avast or Avira please? > Answers prefered from people who have used both.Thanks. > > I like Avast 4.8 Steve Terry -- Welcome Sign-up Bonus of �1 when you signup free at: http://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/G4WWK
From: Thip on 25 May 2010 18:32 "JonC" <skye3987(a)omitgmail.com> wrote in message news:MPG.2666529c3dc57ea09896c2(a)usenet.plus.net... > > > Which is the best Avast or Avira please? > Answers prefered from people who have used both.Thanks. I prefer Avira.
From: David H. Lipman on 25 May 2010 19:59 From: "JonC" <skye3987(a)omitgmail.com> | Which is the best Avast or Avira please? | Answers prefered from people who have used both.Thanks. Avira has the better catch rate. -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: VanguardLH on 25 May 2010 23:01
JonC wrote: > Which is the best Avast or Avira please? > Answers prefered from people who have used both.Thanks. I've used both. If you decide to go with Avira, it is adware but the adware window that appears during an update and the splash screen can be disabled. What you fail to mention is if you want a comparison of the free versions of each or the payware versions of each. For the paid version, Avira is better if you only go by detection rate. If you also weight the decision by the lack of false positives, Avira has more false positives than Avast. If you weight your decision by how well each does at disinfecting a pest (not just alert or quarantine on the pest but also its ability to neuter it), Avast is better (for both the free and payware versions) than Avira. So for the payware version of Avira, you get a tiny better detection rate but with more false positives and less ability to disinfect. There is no functionality that is crippled in the free version of Avast versus its payware version. Avira's free version has several functions disabled, like script blocking. Avira's free version also lacks an e-mail scanner; however, you'll probably end up disabling it, anyway, since AV interrogation of e-mail traffic is superfluous and often causes problems with the e-mail service, like timeouts and duplicate received or sent e-mails. Avira's free version also lacks the web traffic scanner available in its payware version. Avast comes with an e-mail shield (if you choose to install it) and a web shield in its free version so more infection vectors are covered than with the free version of Avira. Like the free version of Avira, the free version of Avast does not include script blocking. You can see what is missing in the freeware versions from the payware versions by looking at: http://www.free-av.com/en/products/1/avira_antivir_personal__free_antivirus.html http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download#tab3 Until you specify that you only want a free AV product or are willing to pay for one, asking for comparisons usually ends up with users typically citing features in the payware version that you won't get. Avira has more stuff missing in its free version than does the free version of Avast, so the wee bit of detection coverage that Avira has over Avast exists in the payware versions but flip flops for the free versions. There is an over 3-year old problem with Avira that has never been addressed because it happens only with a limited number of users and Avira can't reproduce it on their own hosts. That is a contant 1-minute polling of the removable drives, like a floppy drive or a USB-attached hard drive. If you run any software that scans the devices to determine what types they are then Avira can get triggered to repeatedly poll that device and it continues to do so at 1 minute intervals (which adds wear to your drive). Any program that, for example, examines the S.M.A.R.T. data of your external hard drives (e.g., Speedfan) or checks the types of your drives (e.g., Nero or any CD/DVD burning software) can trigger Avira to get stuck in its 1-minute constant accessing of those same scanned drives. Avira doesn't differentiate between a program querying a device for its parameters versus accessing its storage media. This doesn't happen with many users. In fact, it's so small that Avira has never allocated any resources to investigate the problem. However, I happened to be one of those hit with the constant re-accessing of the floppy drive and had to get rid of Avira - but then I probably would't reverted back to Avast, anyway (even after getting rid of the adware window and splash screen in Avira but something users should NOT have to do to get rid of blatant adware screens). |