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As much as you'd love for any avast! version to be automatically configured to your specific desires without some customisation, life just isn't like that. To expect avast! to automatically cater to your desired settings is quite frankly a ridiculous and boxed minded expectation.
Well taken, but I notice three new settings I don't need in the 6.0 configuration. The virtualization feature actually looks pretty cool to me... I will keep this in mind in the future as I am currently experimenting with Virtualbox and with VMWare to a more limited extent.
The only insanity is from the people not upgrading the the 6 versions, i find the new versions run lighter than any of the old versions and if you find that isnt so then you need to look at what other software you have running that maybe causing the slow downs.
It is strange how you can call avast bloatware
Sir, I said Avast 5.0 was bloatware... I installed Avast 4.x for a customer years ago and he liked it so much he started using it exclusively. When 5.x came out and he was forced to upgrade because of the nagging, he was upset. I also tried installing the free version of 5.0 on customers systems and I remember being very disappointed by it. I have not seen 6.0 yet.
Also to come here to the avast forums and state that your using cracked keys and then you want help on an old version of avast when there is a superiour new product in every aspect for free really makes me wonder how some people even remember to breathe.
If I went on the Apogee forums and told them that I'm still emulating Commander Keen in Dosbox, I hardly think anyone from their company would care (If they even still exist).
avast! 4.8 is using an outdated engine, its emulator is much more basic, it doesn't have proper heuristics, doesn't provide Script Shield, it doesn't have Behavior Shield, it doesn't have AutoSandbox and also scanned files are not cached which significantly increases performance.
You get all this in avast! 6. For free!
Ah yes, the sandbox feature, this is something I loathed in Comodo Antivirus.... I don't need my antivirus babysitting me, watching everything I do, making sure I don't defecate excrement in my underwear.
I’m not an expert in antivirus terminology, but what exactly is an antivirus program emulating? Are the heuristics good enough to warn me if the torrent I downloaded has an infected file? Probably. I stated that I don’t use Script Shield because I use Firefox with AdBlock Pro, and have never had any problem with this combination. I also disable the Adobe Acrobat Plugin so I manually open PDF files and they do not open in Firefox (Which is a common method of infection).
Oh yea, I am also not using the bloatware Acrobat Reader “X”. I hope you don’t mind.
I's like having a choice of a free Ferrari 458 Italia and a free Zastava Yugo. And you'd pick Yugo and insist on it to the death. WHY!? Take the Ferrari, take the avast! 6
I want an old mid to late 90s completely restored, fully loaded Toyota Camry? Why? [b]Because I like this car and no one will tell me what to choose[/b]. I guess you Europeans don't understand this because you have a collectivist (read: socialist) mindset, and individualistic thinking in the European Union is a thought crime.