Avast?

Alan Searcy · Dec 14, 2005

What do you think of the free home version of Avast?

Max Wachtel · Dec 14, 2005

(e-mail address removed) AKA Alan Searcy on 12/13/2005 in

What do you think of the free home version of Avast?

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Beauregard T. Shagnasty · Dec 14, 2005

Max said:
(e-mail address removed) AKA Alan Searcy on 12/13/2005 in

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Heh, I've been using Avast! successfully for several years...

Roy Coorne · Dec 14, 2005

Alan said:
What do you think of the free home version of Avast?

A good scanner, even for WinXP x86.

Roy

John and Pat · Dec 14, 2005

I like it's boot time scanning. However it did miss a virus on my wife's
computer that ETrust EZAntivirus caught.

Regards,
John O.

Lars-Erik Østerud · Dec 15, 2005

Alan Searcy:

What do you think of the free home version of Avast?

I love it. It much easier to use and handle than the other huge one
(like McAfee, Norton etc etc). Install it for every friend that need
Anti-virus (and have given up on the other ones that mess up :-)

Hurricane Andrew · Dec 15, 2005

Lars-Erik Østerud said:
Alan Searcy:

I love it. It much easier to use and handle than the other huge one
(like McAfee, Norton etc etc). Install it for every friend that need
Anti-virus (and have given up on the other ones that mess up

Same here. I installed it for my father, a couple of neighbors, and my
other two PC's. I've been using it on and off for a little over 2 years
now, and it's certainly matured as an AV solution. Not only ready for
primetime, but more ready than some other more "mainstream" ones.

Roy Coorne · Dec 15, 2005

John said:
I like it's boot time scanning. However it did miss a virus on my wife's
computer that ETrust EZAntivirus caught.

Are you sure it was a virus and not a false positive?

Roy

Lars-Erik Østerud · Dec 15, 2005

Hurricane Andrew:

Same here. I installed it for my father, a couple of neighbors, and my
other two PC's. I've been using it on and off for a little over 2 years
now, and it's certainly matured as an AV solution. Not only ready for
primetime, but more ready than some other more "mainstream" ones.

I also very much like that I can set it up tp alert me when they have
problems, they always call me anyway, but now I get the message ASAP.

If I should say some bad things about avast it's the yearly
registration. Most of my friends can't handle that, and they have to
call me once a year to fix that for them :-( The other one is the
program update, but that is actually ZoneAlarms fault (after a program
update ZA asks for access confirmation, and that confuses them alot).
So for most of them I have turned program updates off (do it manually)

Max Wachtel · Dec 15, 2005

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Hurricane Andrew:

I also very much like that I can set it up tp alert me when they have
problems, they always call me anyway, but now I get the message ASAP.

If I should say some bad things about avast it's the yearly
registration. Most of my friends can't handle that, and they have to
call me once a year to fix that for them :-( The other one is the
program update, but that is actually ZoneAlarms fault (after a program
update ZA asks for access confirmation, and that confuses them alot).
So for most of them I have turned program updates off (do it manually)

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Have they fixed the loop-back issue with Sygate firewall? That is one
of the reasons I don't use Avast anymore.
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Max Wachtel · Dec 16, 2005

(e-mail address removed) AKA John and Pat on 12/14/2005 in

I like it's boot time scanning. However it did miss a virus on my
wife's computer that ETrust EZAntivirus caught.

Regards,
John O.

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Well here is the scanning results of a zip file attackment that showed
up in my junk mail today,seems that Avast and eTrust Vet couldn't see
it.
This is a report processed by VirusTotal on 12/16/2005 at 05:49:59
(CET) after scanning the file "James.zip" file.
AntiVir 6.33.0.61 12.15.2005 TR/Bagle.Gen.B
Avast 4.6.695.0 12.15.2005 no virus found
AVG 718 12.15.2005 I-Worm/Bagle
Avira 6.33.0.61 12.15.2005 TR/Bagle.Gen.B
BitDefender 7.2 12.16.2005 Trojan.Downloader.Bagle.H
CAT-QuickHeal 8.00 12.15.2005 (Suspicious) - DNAScan
ClamAV devel-20051108 12.15.2005 Trojan.Bagle.BN
DrWeb 4.33 12.15.2005 Win32.HLLM.Beagle.9219
eTrust-Iris 7.1.194.0 12.16.2005 Win32/Glieder.CL!ZIP!Trojan
eTrust-Vet 12.3.3.0 12.15.2005 no virus found
Fortinet 2.54.0.0 12.16.2005 W32/Mitglieder.GV!tr
F-Prot 3.16c 12.15.2005 security risk named W32/Mitglieder.GV
Ikarus 0.2.59.0 12.16.2005 no virus found
Kaspersky 4.0.2.24 12.16.2005 Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle.ey
McAfee 4651 12.15.2005 W32/Bagle.gen
NOD32v2 1.1325 12.15.2005 Win32/Bagle.DR
Norman 5.70.10 12.15.2005 no virus found
Panda 8.02.00 12.15.2005 W32/Bagle.FU.worm
Sophos 4.00.0 12.16.2005 Troj/BagleDl-AO
Symantec 8.0 12.16.2005 Trojan.Lodear.F
TheHacker 5.9.1.056 12.15.2005 no virus found
VBA32 3.10.5 12.15.2005 suspected of Email-Worm.Bagle.22

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Lars-Erik Østerud · Dec 16, 2005

Isn't ZIP scanning off by default. I use avast! (and any other virus
scanner I would use) at higher settings than standard. I use through
compressed file scanning (that's usually off as standard). And all
test are made with standard settings I think. avast! has ZIP file
scanning on in the on-demand, but off by default in on-access (if they
havn't changed this since I installed it the first time anyway :-)

Lars-Erik Østerud · Dec 16, 2005

Max Wachtel:

Have they fixed the loop-back issue with Sygate firewall? That is one
of the reasons I don't use Avast anymore.

Wouldn't know. Only use ZA. Can you explain more what happends?

Max Wachtel · Dec 16, 2005

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Max Wachtel:

Wouldn't know. Only use ZA. Can you explain more what happends?

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Here is a good example. I have set a permission in Sygate to allow
SpywareBlaster to update. If I uncheck the permission so that Sygate
will display a dialog box asking if SB is allowed to access,because of
Avast Network Shield,SB is allowed access anyway and no dialog box is
displayed-Sygate thinks it is Avast that is connecting,not
SpywareBlaster.

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Lars-Erik Østerud · Dec 17, 2005

Max Wachtel:

Here is a good example. I have set a permission in Sygate to allow
SpywareBlaster to update. If I uncheck the permission so that Sygate
will display a dialog box asking if SB is allowed to access,because of
Avast Network Shield,SB is allowed access anyway and no dialog box is
displayed-Sygate thinks it is Avast that is connecting,not
SpywareBlaster.

OK, I have set two zones in ZA, one lokal for 127.0.0.1
All internal communication usually asks for access here
(IE, WebWasher, avast!), but I do get warnings for other
programs too...

Addon: I found out I don't use the Netshield, only On-Access, E-mail
and Web Shield. What does the Netshield add actually that is not
covered (and is it worth the extra CPU usage/slower net access)?

Avast?

Alan Searcy

Max Wachtel

Beauregard T. Shagnasty

Roy Coorne

John and Pat

Lars-Erik Østerud

Hurricane Andrew

Roy Coorne

Lars-Erik Østerud

Max Wachtel

Max Wachtel

Lars-Erik Østerud

Lars-Erik Østerud

Max Wachtel

Lars-Erik Østerud