Sorry, but I realy don’t understand who are you talking to… why should I rank myself against those top products ? Not quite clear to me I must confess… Probably, that’s just quote from someone’s reply to your letter to them… I don’t know… put that under quotes next time please, it will be much clearer…
My point was… when they said avast is ugly, you were angry like we all were angry, but you didn’t say to them that they are wrong about that… the truth is - avast! is not ugly, avast! is very, very “pretty”… let them find me one antivirus that has so much nice skins and what’s most important, in the same time catches so many viruses… this product is top product ! It’s efficiency, it’s look and what’s most important Alwil cares what their customers and users think about their products… I think those things puts avast! directly to the top… correct me if I’m wrong…
;DI just got avast last week and have told a few more people about it. It s great. Had Norten 2003 and it crashed my puter (windows Me) all the time . Took it off and used A V G It missed a lot of virus. I rate avast #1
I just wanted to add my two cents worth as well. I just wanted to let everyone know that I have used 8 out of the 11 products (including Avast!) listed on that review page so I feel that I should have a fair idea on how they all rate against Avast!. They are BitDefender, AVG, Norton, McAfee, PC-Cillin, , Etrust EZ Antivirus, Panda Antivirus (Platinum and Titanium) and finally Avast! Antivirus Pro.
Let me assure you all that NONE of them rate as good as Avast. I have just about tried all the antivirus products out there and I have uninstalled every single one of them except for Avast. The simple reason is the fact that avast inserts a note on all incoming and outgoing messages on whether the email is cleaned, the database file that is has used and the date that it was scanned/tested. I know that AVG has this as well, but what has been mentioned on this thread earlier, AVG doesn’t pick up anywhere as near viruses/trojans that avast does.
I have Avast Pro as my antivirus, Sygate Personal Firewall Pro and the firewall that comes with XP as my firewall. I also use Foxmail as my email client. I can now finally say that I feel safe with these products whereas previously, I couldn’t.
Lastly, I would like to say a very big thankyou to the developers that put all their hard work into creating Avast HE and Pro. You have made a terrific product that we can all be proud of. It’s a shame that not many others are aware of how good this antivirus product really is. The majority of people normally go for the “big name” products like Norton, McAfee, Panda and AVG.
Also, would also like to thank everyone for their input with this forum. I have had the need to ask for help in the past and a response has been quickly given, but I can’t say the same thing to the support for Norton or McAfee.
Just one small remark… that’s good that you finally can feel safe. It’s not neccessary to have two firewalls activated, though. If you have hardware fireawall, then it’s good thing to have software firewall too, but certainly not 2 software firewalls… it’s almost same like you never want 2 antiviruses to run in the same time on your computer. Believe me, you will not be more protected, but the only thing is, you can make your system much more unstable using 2 firewalls in the same time… believe me, they can fight each other…
My advice: turn OFF Windows standard firewall, and use your Sygate only, of course accompanied by avast! (Greatest antivirus in the world). Sygate is fantastic product, and also it’s very light on system resources… believe me, it will give you enough protection that you safely can go and disable Windows firewall. Two software firewalls can give you just headache and troubles…
