Switched to ‘avast’ antivirus
July 21st, 2005 at 12:08am
Made a switch from Norton antivirus to Avast antivirus today. Norton was taking too much of resources. Clearly a bloatware. Wanted to switch for sometime now, but somehow it did not happen till now. Ok. Avast is from a company called Alwil software, and is pretty decent. Its free for home/personal use.
I had used avast antivirus for sometime a year ago. I had switched back to Norton antivirus to try out a new version of Norton antivirus - 2005, which was a nightmare. It made my 1.5GHz processor behave like a 400 MHz processor. So, again switched back to Norton 2003.
The latest version of avast is quite impressive. It managed to detect some adwares present in my memory on the first run. Norton antivirus never detected this adware!.
I also did a full system scan, and found that there were some Trojans too which were on my system. Clearly bypassing Norton antivirus.
Avast antivirus is quite responsive, fast. It auto updates its antivirus signatures. Apart from the standard in-memory scanner, it has modules to take care of p2p applications, IM’s, network access etc.
I have been running it for a while, and the performance of the system is pretty good.
More details/features available at the avast site.
Tags: antivirus, avast, malware, norton, protection, spyware, virus
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6 Comments Add your own
1. Harsh | July 21st, 2005 at 1:01 am
My P4-2.4GHz and is on Norton it behaves like celeron sometimes, i am waiting for more updates and your experience with this one.
2. Harsh | July 21st, 2005 at 1:06 am
what about the firewall i dont think it include one. firewall is a must in this age of spywares.
3. Sripathi Kamath | July 21st, 2005 at 9:43 am
How about AVG? I thought it was better than Norton but haven’t tried Avast yet.
4. Arjun | July 21st, 2005 at 9:55 am
Harsh : It has a network shield which takes care of network attacks. For eg, any machine thats infected and trying to do a DOM exploit attack etc… Spywares, adwares etc are take care by the standard shield.
Sripathi:. AVG is also supposed to be good. I had downloaded it, but never tried installing it.
5. STANDARD 3ICE | December 25th, 2005 at 7:51 pm (subscribed to comments)
Avast is very good. Avast antivirus is quite responsive, fast. It auto updates its antivirus signatures. Apart from the standard in-memory scanner, it has modules to take care of p2p applications, IM’s, network access etc.
6. Colin Gardiner | July 21st, 2006 at 11:21 am (subscribed to comments)
I had similar problems with Norton so changed to Avast on recommendation. Only quible is that when i delete an e-mail from outlook, outlook shuts down. Any advice welcome.
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