Today, I am new member of the forum . Never been a member of any forum. I have install Avast and would to tell you that I like very much the skins. To download your software, I had to uninstall Norton System Works as it comes in conflict with yours. Is it possible to install Norton System Works without anti-virus or all the software is a no!no! with your software?
Norton System Works scans for virus,worms,etc… on 66,466 files and found nothing but Spy Hunter had discovers two malwares by scanning on 65,920 files. They were: Parsites named"Media@windowsmedia<2>txt and Weborama@weboram`<2>txt. They were considered as a medium danger. Your software searchs only on 45,060 files and found nothing. Why it didn’t find as many files then the two other softwares? Also, why it didn’t find any malwares?
Sorry for so many questions, as in my profile I wrote you I was a paranoï regarding security.
No, you cannot use more than one antivirus (generally speaking) because they will conflict each other. avast is not the only one which conflicts with NAV.
Click on High sensibility of scanning or, better, the Custom level and choose scanning ‘all files’ including archives.
Which ones? Can you post their names?
Which files (and path) were infected?
Can you send them for analysis to virus@asw.cz ?
Spybot looks for spyware and adware. Avast searches for viruses. Most spyware doesn’t act like a virus or worm. You need a firewall like ZoneAlarm, something like Spybot to find and remove adware, and of course Avast! to block viruses.
Honestly for NT systems only WinDoctor is useful. Everything else can be found in much better distributions. I just ripped and extracted WinDoctor in self-exe package (less than 3MB) just to keep my PC healthy hehe,everything else is quiet useless if you have 2000/XP OS.
But for Win9x,SystemWorks is still very good. At least version 2002/2003 was…
I do not agree…
Norton Utilities are very good in my opinion, even in XP systems.
Speed Disk has no comparison with any other defragmentation utility in my opinion.
Norton Cleasweep is not very ‘strong’. Can uninstall some software and clean some garbage.
Norton WinDoctor works well.
Norton Disk Doctor does de same as internal scandisk for Windows (chkdsk.exe).
Well, I’m not saying that there aren’t better tools, but I didn’t find SpeedDisk that bad - it did what I wanted (important note: on Win98). I also use CleanSweep for a long time and never had any stability problems with it; I admit that you should be careful when uninstallaing something (sometimes, it wants to delete things that should be kept, so you’d better know what you’re doing) - but it never crashed for me. Sometimes, it doesn’t detect all the changes done to registry, but I’m not sure if it’s not rather a Windows problem.
I find NDD perfectly OK for routine checks, cleaning of lost clusters, long filenames, etc. (FAT). Of course, I would never let it repair a seriously damaged partition (that’s where DiskEdit comes ;D)
Registry Optimization wizard is handy sometimes as well… WipeInfo maybe, if you know what you’re doing.
On the other hand, I never felt like I’d need Ghost for anything
So, I find NU a collection of simple tools. Sure, there are better ones - but usually not in a package (i.e. searching for and installing many tools would be needed). Just my personal opinion, of course.
FWIW I use AVAST along with McAfee (Version 4, an old one) with no conflicts.
marvin
I’d like to know why you would want to put more on your system than you have to? What can McAfee possible do that isn’t already being done by Avast!
If the two can co-exist and, you say they do, all it can possible do is slow down your system
No good reason. I’ve just had McAfee for years and I get free updates. I got Avast only recently and have no symptoms that make me want to remove McAfee. I haven’t used Avast enough yet to feel comfortable with it. Probably later I will remove McAfee.
Here is what I just posted athttp://www.mywebattack.com/a/about Avast:
Avast! is extreamly easy to use and setup. It catches viruses Norton leaves behind.
Avast also has one of the best and most active User Groups around. If you have a problem or a question, simply post your question and you’ll receive prompt useful help. I would never go back to NAV or any other Anti-virus program.
