can someone explain to me which of these two is better??
im really having a hard time choosing free antivirus software
and im confused of avira and avast??
any suggestions?
Detection might be slightly more aggressive with AVIRA, but is also less configurable and also more annoying.
Overall i still think avast! is far better as a whole produdct.
You are asking on the avast! forum which is better from avast and avira. Of course it will be avast since most if not all on this forum use it. You shouldn’t pick an antivirus based on others opinions. Just chose what suits you best.
of course i found this forum useful with all of the users are very helpful and very accompanying than other forums!! so thats why i ask here!!
Avira: not as many bugs as in avast!
better detection
But
the free version doesn’t contains some features like web and mail shield
it updates only once a day or fewer
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I’ve used this software before on my spare laptop computer and believe it very aggressive I don’t it and it not like you’re trying to have a huge fight to be fully protected, because it far less configurable and also more annoying compare to Avast free version believe when I say this because Avast free version has more AV security protection option compare to AVIRA free version.
ladygaga345 why don’t you compare both free version of AVIRA vs Avast and see who has the most AV security option compare their version before you make your final installation choice, my vote for you is Avast believe me
Well firstly i dont agree at all for the detection of Avira.
Why ? Because its has no a good detection at all in term of exploit. I did see many and when i say many left over by them and its true !
So now a day if there so many sites that is infected what you would choice ? A good anti virus with exploit detection and not bad for rest or a good anti virus that is only good for detect trojan ?
I think you see now.
Mr.Agent
@ ladygaga345
The thing that is never considered when choosing an AV is what kind of support will I get if I have any problem and you have seen that in spades in these forums, prompt and helpful responses and not all related to avast, but you still received help.
So you have lots of personal experience of avast and the support in these forums and that has to count a lot more than any limited review, etc. Not to mention If the AV doesn’t have all the elements/shields that you need, then detection is the last of your issues. Whilst avira has a relatively good detection rate (but it isn’t streets ahead by any recent tests) it also has a slightly higher rate of false positives.
I like your post DavidR. +1000000000…
Me too…David your very clever when out spoken with words ;D
Avira is MUCH MORE annoying with its stupid popups… Unbelievable policy!
avast is better on exploits. Avira is better on binaries. afik.
avast! is better on exploits, but Avira has much better trojan, viruse, spyware and adware detection.
Today, I found four undetected malicious sites.
And avast has more bugs than Avira.
BUT Avira Personal - Free Antivirus hasn’t got anti-rootkit.
But avast! isnt bad for detect trojans, viruses, spywares and adwares also. Avira has a such annoying removal !!! (scan after removing a virus !)
Also like tech said that pop ups of Avira is ANNOYING ! :o
avast! got ads but between me its feel more better than a big pop ups that appear you in your face or dont fit in the interface…
avast! i dont think got mores bugs than Avira im sure ! A program will never got 0 bug so who care ?
Try to uninstall avast and install for example AVG10 to somebody’s PC. He/She will say that her/his computer is faster, it works better and AVG catch a lot of malwares.
avast’s detection is very bad. It didn’t catch 7 malwares, and about 3 malsites in my computer.
I’m talking from NOT AN AVAST! USER OPINION NEITHER AVIRA…
But I’m saying this…
Avira was great back when version 9,8 and so on… but their new version, tested it, it could not block any zero-day/hour threat.
Avast! blocked something like 6/10 with free antivirus, I would go with Avast! cause Avast! has improved alot by version 4.8
I think Avira this way:
Older version that are free, but better than payed, their next version shall fail.
Regards,
Armin.
What is a bad movement from Avira is shifting protection for only the paid version.
Indeed, the free version is deprecated compared to old versions and also with other free antivirus.
avast’s zero-day protection is 0. See Av-Comparatives proactive tests.
And it hasn’t got behavior shield for x64. And I read in this forum that avast’s behavior shield is useless.
Indeed a point to be better. And a very serious one.
I’ve asked so in the first post of this thread: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=64382.0
Check if it was not a problem of August 13th Windows update. It was already corrected.
It’s simple NOT true that it does nothing.