Hello,
About 2 years ago, I left avast due to his extremelly slow response time to add new samples. Because of it, his detection rates were decreasing everyday more and more. Wich was making almost impossible to rely in it to get your system protected.
I have been, during this period, sending tons of new samples that I am always collecting, just to know that they would not even add it, or add it after some months.
However, things seems to be different now. After last Av-Comparatives, I gave a second chance to Norton and Avast, 2 softwares that I did swear never install again, and keep away from my system. I started to pay some attention to them, tested some samples, etc.
For Norton, I believe that some mistake were made. I did see some detection improvement on it, but the improvement is not enough to say that it has a better detection rate then avast (Actually this is the only discrepancy in the AV-Comparatives report IMHO) The new version uses much better the resources in machine, I think its the AV that consumes less resources by now. But, in detections rates, it inst better then avast. No way.
For avast, I must say… I am really impressed with the current detection results. The service providers that avast already had, allied with the new detection rates, makes Avast now IMHO one of the best and complete AV nowdays. Only losing for Avira and GDATA (That has avast engine) in detection rates. Making it the top 3.
Saying it, I would like to make some questions:
1- This improvement, has anything to do with the new submit system? That VLK promissed, and would make the life of the analists easier and make the response time faster?
2- How is the response time, now? Its faster now? Just acceptable or still extremely slow? I couldnt test it yet…
3- This improvement, made me imagine, if the Avast For exchange server is now a product that really could delivery a good level of protection to the servers of the company that I work for. Considering that our trend micro office scan license is making its way to the end, and I think we cant say that we are happy with it, maybe Avast is one of the AVS that now have a chance to replace it in our servers… The only think that worries me, is that the last product update for it is a long time ago… Any reason for it? I must say that it really scares me.
Thanks for your time, and sorry for the long post.
BrBrasil