See: http://www.av-test.org/en/tests/home-user/windows-7/janfeb-2014/
Anyone to comment?
polonus
Qihoo isn’t the only one that beat avast in this test.
Forget about core components, there are more important things like:
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Improved! Software Updater – new installation wizard lets you download and install multiple updates at once directly from download.com
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Improved! Browser Cleanup – improved detection and removal of browser protectors, those tools that try to block us from getting rid of annoying toolbars
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Improved! GrimeFighter – now supporting 12 additional languages and with an advanced console for more control of optimization tasks. Go ahead and fight the Grime!
I guess this is sarcasm ?
I have to express the same level of concern as some other users. This isn’t an isolated incident, it has been like this for a while and i frankly expected far better results from version 2014. The DeepScreen is totally underwhelming, DynaGen is nowhere to be seenm Evo-Gen was fantastic like first 2 weeks and then it sort of fell of the radar and their cloud backend seems to be randomly broken with no indication to the end users (which is just bad). As much as i can be a “fanboy” i’m also very disappointed with avast! for the last 3 or so months. What the hell is going on guys?
Damn!
Detection vary from day to day…so dont worry and dont read tests 
you only get more worried
Shadowserver statistic
Daily https://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/AV/VirusDailyStats
Weekly https://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/AV/VirusWeeklyStats
1 year https://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/AV/VirusYearlyStats
Yes, agree with some posters here to quite an agree.
What again was the name of that UK program?
Wasn’t it - “Back to the Basics”.?
That should be the motto for avast! as well for the time coming at least.
To-day I made a visit to an acquaintance that reported a GrimeFighter detection,
and we could not make it to work less he paid and he did not felt like that.
So we were “stuck”.
After a thorough analysis of the crap report,
I installed AdwCleaner, that took out some remnants of a Bing toolbar and three registry remnants.
His computer is fine after a restart and he was good to go again.
To what an extent is this Grimefighter tool avast! nagware itself?
Has the “department for bundling affairs” taken over there? 8)
polonus
GrimeFighter … oh my ********
Situation:
Customer brings his dead PC in to workshop. The hard drive is so dead it won’t spin at all.
Instructions : Remove old drive, fit new WD hard drive, install customers Win7 Ultimate, and his copy of Avast Pro.
Add all Windows updates and test, customer will install his backed up software at home.
Fit new drive.
Install Win7, install Avast Pro.
Avast Pro updates, run Windows update.
5 minutes later Avast Pops up " We have discovered grime on your system "
Now which is the grime?
Win7 Ultimate or the only other software on the machine which is … ummm , yes, Avast Pro.
Confucius say " While ostrich bury head in sand, big ass makes fine target. "
Did you mean “department of bumbling affairs”? ;D
Hello All,
We unfortunately had some problems with backend systems and DB servers till beginning of March. Everyone from Viruslab Systems as well as IT guys worked hard to solve the situation and shorten our reaction times back to the normal. Fortunately they did great work and now everything runs well again and we are looking for the next test results.
Best Regards
Jiri Sejtko
How can users know the backend problems won’t just randomly re-appear? There is NO indication to the end users as such and while they expect protection, there might be none of it or less than one would expect…
Well, at least we have safe price, google toolbar, grime fighter and dropbox to keep us warm…
P.S., ah, there’s also that thing in the browser that says which website is naughty and which is good - but only when it’s not too busy trying to crash the browser itself…
It is a very interesting free AV program!
One of the few “Install & Forget” AV’s, complete, thorough, flawless and light.
I don’t remember having to do anything to avast! once it’s installed. 
You can’t make any conclusions based on how/what they tested at all.
The reason for it is really simple.
They do not provide accurate details.
Avast: Free AntiVirus 2014?
AVG: Anti-Virus Free Edition 2014?
Yeah right. But what exact versions?
With what settings?
Did they test things on a fresh install of the os or is there other software on it as well?
Samples used: xxx
What samples?
It can very well be that testing with other samples gives a totally different result for the av’s tested.
False warnings or blockages when visiting websites
How and with what websites did they test it?
You could say tests like this are only published as advertisement for the tester(s).
It is not even near a decent scientific correctly test at all.
Does it matter? The rest detected them, avast! didn’t. Minor version differences frankly wouldn’t make a single difference if their cloud backend was (again) the culprit.
:o Is the second time when avast scores such a bad result. Why?
There were some server and Cloud issues again which should be fixed now.
Thank you