Avast by Numbers

[212eta]

i never knew avast had that much of signatures
there free prduct is good compared to that of avg free.
anyway for the person above me i dont still understand y people use many to keep them super protected

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[ceyfer]

Avast and Avira are my two choices if I want a free AV, and Avira's the only paid antivirus, other then NOD32, I'd ever run. Nothing against Avast, but it has a pain, once in a while, it's false positives.

Avast got a good score on just recent false positive test : AV.Comparatives test.

"Not detect false positives. If a product finds more than 15 false positives in the clean set, its score is lowered. This happened to us 6 months ago when we had too many false positives and we got downgraded from an A+ to an A. We spent a lot of time in the recent months upgrading our ability to not detect false positives—we added over 1TB and 150,000 files to our known clean set.

The result was fantastic as we had only 5 false positives for the 2nd position and we were only 1 false positive behind the category leader. Some of the big names had tremendous problems this time around. McAfee with their “in the cloud” detection had 41 False Positives. Avira was downgraded to an A rating because of 21 false positives. Symantec barely made the A+ cutoff with 13 false positives."

More @ Did Avast win the latest AV-Comparatives?

[rnbv424140]

Avast is certainly getting better. Make it lighter than Avira and i'd settle for it

[boz1972]

I am an Eset Smart Security convert, and will NEVER use anything else on my main machine. I use Norton AV 2010 on my laptop, which surprisingly is also very good.

[safeguy]

Avast is certainly getting better. Make it lighter than Avira and i'd settle for it

I agree. Avira is indeed lighter and usually has better detection rates than Avast. That's why I prefer Avira over Avast. Since Avast's false positives has decreased, it's becoming a good competition to Avira. Go with either one of these for free AV. Skip AVG for now...it's bloated.

[bivas600]

but as far as avast is concern avast is certainly not a very good choice because i am using avast pro 4.8 for last 5 months but my pc is getting slow day by day but when i scan my pc with avira there are atleast 10 threats which was undetectable from the eyes of avast pro. so the claim is not always correct

[ceyfer]

but as far as avast is concern avast is certainly not a very good choice because i am using avast pro 4.8 for last 5 months but my pc is getting slow day by day.

simple question: does your box meet the req't and do you have other resource intensive apps?

so the claim is not always correct

true

[noaccount]

So, were we the best overall? I think so.

u have got to be kidding me!!! Avast detected less 68.000 (sixty-eight thousand) malware samples than GData and less 53.000 (fifty-three thousand) malware samples than Antivir and u say u are the best ???

[bivas600]

the scanning speed of avast is horrible though avast claim that their av engine could scan faster than other but the ground reality is very much different than that actual claim

[ceyfer]

the scanning speed of avast is horrible though avast claim that their av engine could scan faster than other but the ground reality is very much different than that actual claim

let see the coming version 5 ( still in beta ).