avast! Internet Security and Prevx Side-By-Side?

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I purchased licenses for Prevx a few weeks ago. I have, until now, run avast! and Prevx together. I built a new machine last week, went to download avast!, saw avast! Internet Security, and immediately bought a license. Can I run avast! Internet Security and Prevx together, or would I be better off just sticking with one of them?

Thanks!
Chris

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I have run them together with no issues; currently run Prevx with Avast! 5 Free and Pro. I look at them as mostly complementary, with Prevx concentrating more on the zero day threats (using the community experience database) at the risk of more false alarms, Avast! doing a more in-depth analysis using data downloaded to your computer after more careful evaluation of the data. And I just like a second opinion anyway.

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Thank you, sded! I was thinking “complementary”, too, and was hoping they’d play nice together. :slight_smile: Some of the other commercial options out there want to be the only authority on your computer.

Thanks!
Chris

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I like the Prevx model of the universe, but it is difficult to implement and can cause other problems. They have decided to have a hub-and-spokes network, where the hub is at their data centers, and the users are just nodes that collect data for them, and get data from them. They report back so Prevx can improve their system by analyzing the take along with collateral information from other sources. And they have no opt-out to soften the blow with users worried about privacy. A pretty dynamic network model.
Conventional AVs like Avast! generate reference databases for the world and push it out to their users, usually after a little more analysis. How many users have seen something is not directly a factor, for example. And what they did about it. And whether they were hosed by it takes a little longer to percolate through the system. So that is the part I think is complementary-Most of the threats should get the same answers from both, but the timeliness might be a bit different. Prevx, to the extent possible, tries to automate things and take the user out of the process.

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Prevx and Avast 4.8 or 5.x run well together side by side except I did disable Prevx Safe OnLine feature.
Been running them together over a year, and 5.x since it came out.