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From: Richard Steinfeld on 8 Sep 2005 13:39
ra wrote:
> Hi ng,
> what do you think about Avast antivirus Home edition? (It's freeware).
>
> Thanks!
>

It seems to be very aggressive, and appears to be a good product. It's
pretty complicated and comes with good configuration options. But I
don't think that I can keep using it on my machine.

My computer runs Windows ME at 720 MHZ; it's maxed out with memory. Even
with minimal settings, I'm finding that Avast, in combination with
Sygate, is running too many processes too often (in the "background")
for my computer to operate well. I'm getting short audio drops quite
often, for example.

(I believe that I just read that Intel has made a business deal with
Grisoft [AVG], so this leaves Avast as the remaining independent AV
company in the Czech Republic.)

Richard
From: jimpgh2002 on 8 Sep 2005 17:55
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:22:11 +0200, "ra" <rocco.andrea(a)gmail.com>
wrote:

>Hi ng,
>what do you think about Avast antivirus Home edition? (It's freeware).
>
>Thanks!
>
Been using it for a good while & it's been fine.
From: -^..^- on 8 Sep 2005 18:42
Great!

Automatic pattern updates!
Automatic program updates!


"ra" <rocco.andrea(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi ng,
what do you think about Avast antivirus Home edition? (It's freeware).

Thanks!



From: ALPI on 9 Sep 2005 14:25
ra vient de nous annoncer :
> Hi ng,
> what do you think about Avast antivirus Home edition? (It's freeware).
>
> Thanks!

Very great. I use it with xp and 98se

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From: Franklin on 11 Sep 2005 08:30
On Thu 08 Sep 2005 15:44:19, Morten Skarstad wrote:
<news:43204eb1$1(a)news.broadpark.no>

> Slowhand Hussein wrote:
>> avoid it like the corlissian plague it is. when it comes to
>> a/v, you get what you pay for. however, avg comes close to
>> being useful.
>
> In what particular way do you find avast! so inferior to AVG?
>
> Personally I find them both to be very competent. I find avast!
> less cumbersome to use and maintain, although AVG does have an
> edge in resource usage. And no matter how much money you fork
> out on anti-software, you are kidding yourself if you think it
> makes you 100% safe.
>
>

Avast can be heavy on system resources.
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