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Avast Antivirus Reviews
Avast Antivirus Reviews
By: Charles P. Jefferies NotebookReview.com Contributor
PUBLICATION: 12/8/2009
By Charles P. Jefferies
ALWIL Software Avast Antivirus Home Edition is free for home users. How do I rank in comparison to other free and paid solutions? Decomposed in this study.
Product description
Avast VGP-BPS8 promises proactive protection against online threats, including viruses, spyware and rootkits, acting at the same time, traditional (internet, media disk) and nontraditional (P2P/IM and network traffic), vectors of infection.
Running Avast Resident Shield provides real-time protection system and claims to be able to detect a virus before it infects a computer. Avast also integrated measures to prevent his arrest. The program also includes several scanners e-mail and new son.
Avast Lenovo V100 battery has a firewall built-called light Red Shield. Regularly analyzes network traffic for worms and other threats.
Another notable feature is Avast Virus Recovery database creates a database of integrity who can repair infected files and their home state.
The free version of Avast (Home Edition) only is available to users, not companies. Registration is required to use the software beyond the 60 day trial.
Download and installation
We install Avast starts downloading a download manager that has the setup files from a server. Once downloaded, the Installation is painless and takes less than ten hits and three minutes to complete. You must restart to complete installation. Most other antivirus suites do not require restart the system, but Avast has a very low level, integrated, which requires restarting the system May Anyway, no big deal.
Registration is required to use avast proof beyond 60 days. User registration provides a license key for 14 months, after which users must register the software again to continue its use. This one with regard to Avira and AVG antivirus free, requires no registration.
Program Interface
Access to the interface requires a right click on the Avast icon in the system tray, click Start, Ideally, users simply double-click the icon.
Avast interface is unique in several respects. It is completely based on the icon, which means a safe learning curve. However, Avast is faster to use than most antivirus, once you are familiar with the interface. It is also unique because the interface is very low, the program interfaces for most viruses are more times its size.
Avast is generally easy to navigate. The three icons on the right to select which areas of exploration (hard drives, external drives, Additional folders) and press the play button on the far left began digitizing selected. The three buttons to the left from top to bottom, open the chest virus, adjust the sensitivity in the access scanner, and initiate a manual update. Updates are made automatically every 24 hours.
Clicking T61 battery in the top left arrow starts the setup menu. Advanced settings and various other items can be found here. Avast allows users to change the version of the skin on the right has been included in the installation. A good detail, although the evolution of skin means relearning what all the icons represent.
In general, the interface is unique and refreshing, it has a small learning curve, but is easy to use thereafter.
During the use and effectiveness
Avast does not affect the productivity office every day and surf the Internet. Unlike some suites, free antivirus, Avira, in particular, has ads built in.
To test I Avast effectiveness for several files that contain viruses Eicar.org a website security. Please see the test description for detailed information on testing.
Avast blocked all the four test files for downloading applications on leaves antivirus download malware detection and only later once that are on your PC. Avast antivirus Kaspersky links more expensive as more pro-active software we've tested, and it has detected all four files at once. Very impressive!
Representation of impact
We evaluate the impact on system performance and resource use anti-virus using a three ways:
1. The overall system performance, measured before and after the installation using PCMark
2. Memory Footprint
3. Time conducted a full system scan
Our test system is a HP Pavilion dv5t.
Overall system performance PCMark Vantage impact measured
PCMark benchmarks measured before (left) and after (right) are the installation of Avast is shown below.
Somehow the reference point was actually more after fleeing if the impact on system performance is not a problem!
The memory usage
Avast took about 12 MB of system memory, which is about one third that the needs of AVG (35 MB), just over half of the needs of this Avira (20 MB), and three times that Microsoft Security Essentials (4 MB). However, even 35 MB is almost nothing compared to modern standards of memory Firefox usually have up to 100 MB only.
Time performed a full system scan
Avast took 34 minutes to scan your computer hard drive with 122GB of data, This is a short time and faster than most of the payment solutions. Bests Avira is 45 minutes, but not very AVG good 23 minutes. Note that this is using the default scan settings, more in-depth analysis options available.
Conclusion
Avast antivirus is a most impressive we've tested, even including the payment software. It is very pro-active, allows many layers of protection, is easy to use after hearing the motor icon interface, and has virtually no impact on system performance. Recommend strongly that home users looking for an antivirus solution with the features described above.
PROS:
- FREE
- Simple interface
- Very active, comprehensive protection
CONS:
- Pitcher Quirky interface
- Icon of the interface has some learning
- Requires registration
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