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Best AV for Windows: Avast! Antivirus!
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This is a miracle AV! I use it on my dad’s new laptop. It finds and removes many trojans, droppers, and other forms of malware. It has even removed that annoying “Vundo” trojan. http://www.avast.com
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Review:
UI: 4/5 (needs work)
Everything Else: 5/5 (Just works)
Total: 4.5/5
7 Comments
grannar olice
May 30th, 2008
at 11:10pm
Avira AntiVir Personal supposed to be less demanding on the system, so I migrated away from Avast!
Incidentally, you needn’t run all the realtime processes: I just ran the standard shield and I was probably safe enough in limited user account.
WereBo
May 31st, 2008
at 4:38am
After reading folks praising ‘Avast’ on the Lockergnome Forum, I decided to try it out on my PC, a few weeks ago. It lasted for 2 days before swapping back to AVG V.8 (Free), I’d never had so many time-outs and snail-like speeds - both in and out.
Oddly though, it worked fine on Mrs WereBo’s PC (both PC’s use WinXP SP3), no time-outs or slowness, totally transparent to incoming and outgoing data..
Gerry V
May 31st, 2008
at 10:13pm
I have had Avast on two PC’s for a couple of years. Both have XP HE one with SP2 and the other SP3. I’ve never had a problem. The only slowness is during e-mail downloads but that is to be expected. At the same time I’ve turned off checking for virues on out going e-mails. Why check for out going virues if your system is clean.
Blake
June 8th, 2008
at 10:36am
I think AVG is the best AV for Windows. The only problem with Avast is that it slows down the computer.
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June 10th, 2008
at 1:43pm
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