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To complet, the Avast engines seem to be designed for HARDDRIVE computers .
They rely extansively to disk I/O for every actions....
 
Planning to change how stuff is done does not mean that there is a bug. Your car would use more fuel than a current model; that does not mean that there is a bug in it, merely that it is less perfect.

They are saying that if you have such a major issue with its write behaviour (they imply they don't share your concerns), you can reduce it by using a RAM disk. You don't have to, they don't expect anyone to, and it's not a major issue.

I'm also quite impressed at an internet connection that can pull down 200GB in half an hour. Netflix doesn't stream at 800Mb/s.
 

canope

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the 200 GB in 30 minutes have been generated by the weekly file scanning of my Windows USB3 HDD used with Parallel desktop VM.
I have the disk natively available thru OS X and scanned from OS X for being sure to have and antivirus not tampered at windows level.
 

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I have used Panda Free Edition for about 3 weeks. I decided to run Superantispyware and Malwarebytes. My old standbys. Super found 28 threats and Malwarebytes and a good lump too. It doesn't seem that Panda does that well as a stand alone. Besides which I am not too endeared to their forum. All the forums there say FORUM LOCKED? What's that all about?
 

musical marv

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I use Avast on my samsung galaxy 7 smartphone it is a good anti- virus app.
 

Greg B

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After using Avast for 6 years, 4 of them paid, at $30 p/yr, they could not install the renewal this year. Instead, I was told by the technical assistant who was online to help complete the failed install, that I had malware, 2000 temp files (normal was 200) and lots of background filing that had gotten into my laptop. I thought the yearly subscription was covering some of that? Wrong. System showed no scans, eventhough I had many pop-ups that scans were happening. Yes, if I did pay $170 for Total Support they could fix everything! No, thanks! I cancelled my subscription, feeling like I had wasted 4 years of paid fees and received inadequate protection.

I am thinking there was a 99.9% chance that you were *not* talking Avast at all, but rather one of these cheesy "remote support companies" that offer lousy support on everything for big annual fees. I see more and more of my customers getting caught by these scams, often by Googling something like "McAfee installation support", getting a page filled with McAfee logos, and a phone number that connects you to a boiler room . . . . a boiler room that will change its phone number in a few months. Sorry.
 

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Well... I can't use BitDefender because it's not compatible with my ASUS AI Suite III, how retarded is that ? :) I'm using AVG Internet Security again now, I just wanted to try BitDefender since everyone is saying how awesome it is and I can't even install it because i have AI Suite III installed which I surely won't uninstall ...
 

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DO NOT DOWNLOAD the free version of the Avira Anti-Virus program! Avira uses TR/Agent. 35328.246 which will persistently show itself in Avira's pop-up box, asking the user to "remove" the threat, yet this Trojan/Agent is never removed! According to ehow.com: "The Trojan.Agent virus usually poses no threat to a computer's safe running. Instead, it typically installs on a computer with a less reputable antivirus and spyware blocking program. The program uses the threat of this hoax virus to pressure users into buying the full version of the antivirus software in question."

Stay clear of Avira if you don't want to be constantly hounded by that company to upgrade to its paid "full version."
DO NOT DOWNLOAD the free version of the Avira Anti-Virus program! Avira uses TR/Agent. 35328.246 which will persistently show itself in Avira's pop-up box, asking the user to "remove" the threat, yet this Trojan/Agent is never removed! According to ehow.com: "The Trojan.Agent virus usually poses no threat to a computer's safe running. Instead, it typically installs on a computer with a less reputable antivirus and spyware blocking program. The program uses the threat of this hoax virus to pressure users into buying the full version of the antivirus software in question."

Stay clear of Avira if you don't want to be constantly hounded by that company to upgrade to its paid "full version."
 

cdshafer

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Hello everyone. You know a lot of people out there. All they want to do is get online and have fun. Listen to music, play games, stay in touch with family and friends. Use to they didn't worry much about protecting their pc. Now day's we are bombarded with all kinds of threats from the internet. Mailware, spyware viruses, hackers, identity theft. Yes you can pay for realtime protection and might get protected. But you get what you pay for with those opptions. I have been some what of a computer geek for the last 10 years. ( Computer repair and network technicion). I have found a couple of programs that work well together. One Avira is one of them. I have no troubles running this program. From what I have read above it is the number one Antivirus program for free. I do get a little upset that it keeps poping up autorun. exe was blocked. I use to get realy upset about this untill one day I turned avira off so I could see what program was doing this. Mailware!!! automated mailware attached to one of the websites I go to. Not cookies, mailware. I leave avira up and running now and ignor the thing when it dose it. One of the other programs I use was listed here too. Malwarebytes. Nice little program. I love the new chameleon. Work like a charm on hiding itself to fool hacker, mailware and spyware programs. Once again free and easy to use. Only thing is you have to remember to do updates every day. Another nice feature abvout Malwarebytes is it updates it's data base constanly. You can do an update and 20 minutes later you can do it again. I only update once a day on malwarebytes and am fine. Avira is set to auto update so I don't have to worry so much about it. The last program I use is Superantispyware. It is also a free program and dose not ast you to go pro all the time. Malwarebytes, Avira and Superantispyware all have the option on the main screen to allow you to go pro but it is your choice. They do not pop up big adds saying you have to. If it dose someone done hacked you. Log into safemode without networking and run you antivirus program. Superantispyware is a lot like Malwarebytes in that it detects and blocks spyware and mailware. But I don't think many people know that both of these programs do more than block popups. They find and distroy trojans. Superantispyware is like Malware, you have to do manual update every day. That is why before I go online each day I play sol while these two programs up date befor I go to any website. Takes me a whole wopping 5 minutes to update both. And here is the kicker of the whole thing. All of these are free programs. When I know I have been hit and none of these programs can get rid of it I have another trick up my sleave. And guess what? It is another free program from McAffe. McAfee Stinger. Very effective program. To use it. Do like I said earlier. Log into safemode without networking, open the folder you downloaded it to and follow the promps. I just hope you don't have any computer prank programs on your PC you want to keep. It even takes out windows malicious software removal tool. Now how is that for preformance. So before you go bashing Avira and Malwarebytes migtht I suggest you try them first. And please fill free to add the other two to your arsenal. I have been running all of them for the last six years and they work for me. And I am a diehard XP user.
 

musical marv

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What about Avast in your opinion?

 


Holy wall of text. Please try and format it better. This is barely more than just a rant.
 

Paul Wagenseil

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We haven't reviewed ESET only because it doesn't have much market presence in North America.

 
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