hello i was using mse and i have just installed avast free edition to try a new antivirus , then i found this website http://www.av-comparatives.org/en/comparativesreviews/removal-tests
in the removal test avast looks bad.
the most important things in antivirus are detection and removal
according to tests avira free is the best option for free antivirus,and avast free looks worst any comments?
thank you for answers, i did not think about prevention before ,no advertising yet free anvirus and definetely best lightweight antivirus software
Honestly, those tests are in part irrelevant shortly after they are released. That is just how fast things move. So tests from December hold even less weight. Add to that the fact that you are looking at Avast! 6 test. (ver. 7 is out now, with many improvments).
Plus, you will get even more confused looking at focused tests. They in no way measure a products effectiveness as a whole. If you must look at tests, at least you are looking at what is probably the best Testing Firm in AV Comparatives…but look at their whole product dynamic tests for a more accurate picture. Even then, as previously mentioned, you will be looking at Avast! 6 tests.
I’d say it’s irrelevant to me, as a computer user, at the very least. I guess it’s more of a psychological effect when one sees those kind of tests. I mean, those are data and data don’t lie so long as they are not manipulated by some sort of conspiracies.
I do think avast! is the best out there and I know it’s protecting me everywhere I go in the cyberworld. Just that all results come down to end users eventually.
in my opinon i think avast is the best, a antivirus software doesent protect you against all threats. new ones are found ever day. if you look at false positives avira is good at give that to you. those results are from last years tests using version 6, now we are on version 7.
much better.
Well the preamble information makes it fairly clear the test has nothing to do with detection:
These tests focus only on the malware removal/cleaning capabilities, therefore [b]all used samples are samples that the tested Anti-Virus products are able to detect. It has nothing to do with detection rates or protection capabilities[/b]. Of course, if an Anti-Virus is not able to detect the malware, it is also not able to remove it.
The main question is if the products are able to successfully remove malware and its leftovers from an already infected/compromised system.
Since avast could detect all of these malware samples, so if you haven’t got an infected/compromised system before you install avast, the name of the game if prevention rather than cure.
I once tried Avira and I was very badly disappointed. It had only English language. It was updating 1.2kb/s and was pop-uping ads. When I tried to access internet my browser everytime frozen and crashed because of it’s toolbar. Without that toolbar you are not protected on internet…
Avast! is just the best prevention. Now It has cloud tech - Prevention is even better with 20 updates per day (like malwarebytes 8)).
thank you for answers i have never think about prevention before, now i am using avast ,
also i heard about avira’s annoying advertising popups,
now i think avast is the best free antivirus
Plain and simple, if you never get infected, you don’t have to worry about removal. If on the rare chance you do get infected by a brand new piece of malware while using Avast, (which could happen while using any AV product), the detection signatures will very soon be able to detect the infection and at the very least, render the malware inoperable if not completely removed. Avast now has the fastest updating free product that I know of.
There are very good free malware removers like Malwarebytes that will clean the system of any remnants of an infection 99% of the time .
I think it depands… I am using this antivirus from last 3 years … In past its works well and every thing was perfectly good so i was thinking avast as the no.1 antivirus in world ;D ;D ; But now a days its version 7 is blocking my internet access. So I think its the most worst/bad anti virus in the world >:( >:( >:(.
