avast

OK well i read in a thread from major attitude that avast is S**t however i've been running it and i thought it was great but perhaps i'm wrong

could anyone give me some feedback on that issue / a solution of what is best in the matter of virus protection programs

anything would be appricitaed thanks alot

Wolf

 

Personally, I love Avast! However, nobody's experience is the same as the next guy's. Maybe MA got burnt too many times.

However, for a more objective/technical look at Antivirus products, I always go to: http://www.av-comparatives.org/

They list AntiVir as the most effective freeware product.

 

I've used:

Avast
AVG
Etrust
Panda
Antivir

They have all let me down one time or another. So I see them all as equals

 

do u have them all installed or only one because i thought ur only supposed to use one at a time

Wolf

 

Ditto, with the exception of Etrust. Avast is the only one yet to let ME down, but I don't think I've been in the game as long as Adryn.

Yes! Only have one installed at a time! Running more than one consumes too many resources, and possibly conflicts when both try to lock on the same file, or flag one another's quarantine, so something similar.

 

when u say let you down what do u mean tho

Wolf

 

With AVG, I got some false positives that killed one of my favourite games.

Panda pooched my system performance, and caused crashes.

Can't remember what my beef with AntiVir was, but I know it burned me once.

 

well i download alottt and all but avast has seemed to keep my computer in shape and everything i was just wondering if maybe i was being mislead because of what major attitude said thats all i really like avast it seems to have cleaned out my harddrive completly

Wolf

 

False positives, crashes...pretty much what Mada mentioned. Antivir gave me update hell.

Panda--BSOD
AVG- BSOD
Avast-BSOD, false positive
Etrust-BSOD
Antivir-Update hell, false positive.

I'm not knocking any of them..the crashes were only once in a very blue moon, and completely unpredictable. This is over the course of years, and Im sure it was a shoddy program update in each case. No AV is perfect.

Because I never get viruses, I cannot tell you the effectiveness of any of them. Etrust was the least resource intrusive I found. Panda was great for a while, then became the most unstable of all of them.

I currently use Avast. The best AV I have EVER used was InnoculateIT, which is the grandaddy of Etrust, and was free for the non commercial version.

 

i've read the malwear things many times and i love my computers proformance it's just i want my dad to have the same and my step mom dosent really think i know what i'm doing, he says hes gonna tyalk to her and hopefully he will convince her because thanks to MG i can say my computer is pretty much running perfectly

what is a BSOD i've seen it alot but have no clue what it is

Wolf

 

Stop error, blue screen of death. OS crash.

 

ah i had that once kinda it would say dumping physical memory i think

is that a BSOD?
oooohhhh i get it blue screne of death haha

ok thanks

Wolf

 

Yeah when there is a physical memory dump, you had one

 

did it harm the computer

it wasent this one though

 

Ahhh, yes! That was the problem I had. Pissed me right off.

On an aside, I use a BSOD as a screensaver.

 

Yeah same, especially when i went to the website, found out the update link was on the dang forum, and the link gave a 404.

Was not pleased in the least bit.

 

Nah, the memory contents are dumped into a file for debugging purposes. Its not going to physically hurt a thing.

 

so did it harm the comuter???

it wasent hard to get rid of for me though and this was when i had no real computer knowledge

Wolf

 

oh ok well thats good my step bro has the comp anyways and it's hella slow but he wont let me try and make it faster

 

Following many antivirus comparative, Avast Free Edtion is the best Free Antivirus program, i personnaly used it and it was fine, but be carefull, there are false Avast Antivirus Programs in the net, here is a preview of what i say :

REAL Avast Site : English version ==>http://www.avast.com/index.html ( Real French version==> http://www.avast.com/index_fre.html)
Fake Avast Site : http://www.avast.fr/

I'll advice u to personnaly download Avast Free in the Real Home Site and get ur own free key

 

the fake site is recomended by cnet.com i thought that site was pretty good and makeing sure everything is clean or atleast most of it

i have the real version of avast tho i got it from the malwear link anyways so if it was fake MG would be to blame

Wolf

 

Yeah, but this is true of MANY, MANY major sites, though. For example, try visiting majorgeeks.ca

 

hah thats weird this MG is way cooler

also very helpful

i've recomended MG to a few people because i am so pleased with everything i've got out of it

Wolf

 

Check the file server. files.avast.com on the "fake" site. Fake version? Hmmm... Fake site, maybe, but they are serving the real deal. Same file size as latest version even. If you want me to, I'll compare MD5 hashes. That, and download it from here. Majorgeeks is gracious enough to provide this forum, support them in the process.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/Avast_Home_Edition_d1968.html

 

well i got mine out of the malware guide and i've updated to 4.7 so i'm prettttyyy sure it's good since i got it from MG

 

Wolfx28, u can trust MG download pages cause they give the Author site in the download pages, like this one for Avast : http://www.majorgeeks.com/Avast_Home_Edition_d1968.html

No fear, nobody will blame this site cause it's safe:drool