I looked up the last topics on this board and the general board and didn’t find any related to this, so…
The last results of AV-Test.org was released and avast! Free Antivirus is on the list.
You can see the results of avast! and other anti-virus and even compare to earlier quarters, here:
http://www.av-test.org/certifications.php
They tested a free antivirus against a bunch of full suites, how smart…
I think they only tested the Free Antivirus because AVAST Software wanted too like in the way the Free version is tested by AV-Comparatives.
The main goal is to compare avast! Free antivirus against a bunch of suites and see how it performs.
In my opinion, avast! haves solid results (I have to remember that the version tested is the Free one) with a good average overall. Only need to improve a little nothing on protection… 
Now if you think the reverse, feel free to comment but please keep it clean.
Thanks.
*Edit:
Edited avast! version on 1st post (avast! IS to avast! Free).
Wow, it beat McAfee, nice!
ofcourse mcafee is not good … but avast yes!
Take another look…they tested 5.0 “not” 5.1. Doesn’t av-comparatives.org run a test sometime in February 2011? It will be interesting to see how well 5.1 will do. But it does feel good to have a top of the line av. Also, avast! requested they tested the free version.
Keep up the good work.
Read the Norton symantec and seems better but would i leave avast for Norton when this in 2008/2009 was a resource hog.
can we trust these tests?
av-test does not specify at all how it was tested. no details, whatsoever :
av-comparatives describe more how it is tested, but they only say “fast” or “very fast” without specifying what they mean by “fast” :
avast! Did really well in this test put out my Norton. Even out performed Norton in many aspects. Performance not detection was the goal.
http://www.passmark.com/ftp/antivirus_11-performance-testing-ed2.pdf
Keep looking as avast! was added later and doesn’t at first look like it’s included.
None of these tests are the end all–but they are interesting to read.