About Avast home protection

Hi,

The last 2 year ı use kaspersky antivirus, the license over 2 days ago, I use adsl internet conection, if ı use avast home free,
how much will protect against future threats from the Internet, would you recommend, I use this laptop computer only my home, thanx.

Kaspersky has a pretty good reputation. So does Avast. (Very good, in fact.You hardly ever read anything bad about Avast.)
Personally, I think Avast is likely to be at least as good as Kaspersky. Maybe better in some respects. Who knows?
Try it out and decide for yourself.
It is very difficult to make objective assessments of how good the really good AV’s are, compared to each other. Even the testing sites get quite differing results.
Now if one of them was really bad, it would be an easy question to answer. :smiley:
[edit] Welcome to the the forum, by the way ;D
Good place to find out how it works, get advice etc.

disregard

Where can ı found avast home screenshots?

The table comparison of two avast! versions: Home Edition and Professional Edition.

What is push updates?

Of version 4? Which one you want to see?
Of version 5? Check avast blog: http://blog.avast.com/2009/07/20/avast-5-is-coming-soon/#more-354

Click here to see the differences between avast Home & Professional versions.

Push iAVS. It is a special kind of update. Sometimes, it might be very important to perform the update as soon as possible (e.g. when a new virus starts to spread heavily). With Push iAVS, it is possible to start the update remotely, on the request of ALWIL Software specialists. The request is done by a special e-mail message. avast!, checking the incoming e-mails, will recognize the message and automatically start the update.

Where can ı found avast home screenshots?
I couldn't actually locate screenshots on the home page, sorry, but there is a good selection of them [url=http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1040233]here[/url] and [url=http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1215271]here.[/url] (Wilders security forum.) There are skins available [url=http://www.avast.com/eng/skins.html]here.[/url] The above is valid for the current version, 4.8.

The other questions you have are answered by Tech.

I look this test, On-demand Comparative, here, http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/main-tests

Avast pro result total score %98.2.

I wondered, the free version provide the same success in this test?

I wondered, the free version provide the same success in this test?
I think so. The free version has the same detection and cleaning engine as the pro. (Unlike some of the other free versions of AV's, in which detection/cleaning ability can be part-crippled.

avast v5 screenshoots very good, where can ı download v5 ?

It’s not available yet. The beta phase is programmed to August and the final release to October.

the free version is amazingly good. Been running it for about two years now and nothing to complain about. You could go for the paid version but, in my opinion, it doesn’t add more to the efficiency in terms of protection against threats. Except for script blocking may be…other features, as far as I remember, available in the pro version are scheduled tasks…there are probably other things I forgot about.
As far as I’m concerned, going for the paid version only makes sense if you want to support Avast, which I’ll probably do one of these days (yeah, shame on me I haven’t done it yet).
The only thing I could complain about is the inability to get a boot scan running on 64 bit OS. Hope that will be fixed on upcoming Avast 5 :wink:

edit: I guess the reason why I don’t post so much in this forum is the software just runs fine. I’ve never had any real issue with it, apart from 1 or 2 false positives and that was solved very quickly with prompt updates from the team.

avast v5 screenshoots very good, where can ı download v5 ?
Got a map of 2009? Around the end of the 10th month. If you are able to get there before the rest of us, let us know. ;D

Will be there on avast 5.1 (not on 5.0).

nice :slight_smile:

I cant see antikeylogger and antiphishing protection ???

lol ;D antiphishing should be integrated in your browser already (IE8 and FF3 do), so no sweat ::slight_smile: as to keyloggers, I admit I never really worried about that. UAC should take care of that in Vista (should…), and if not, run a separate HIPS.

edit: not sure if the script blocker in avast pro addresses keylogger issues, may be…

http://www.pdfzone.com/c/a/DRM/Microsoft-IE-8-Adds-AntiPhishing-Tools/
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/

Avast should detect most malicious keyloggers as part of its antispyware ability.Westcoast labs certification.

Now I install avast home, how can ı configure best settings?

take a look at the interface, and if you got question (s), then post back here :wink:

@Defence

best configurations

no.1 Update the antivirus daily.
no.2 should you have to do a boot time scan: http://www.digitalred.com/avast-boot-time.php
no.3 avast found a suspicious item, then upload it to avast hence increasing your protection by helping avast increasing the detection rate.
no.4 dont run multiple antivirus(av) solutions.
no.5 any help regarding avast av, come back (post a new topic).