Avast with ThreatFire? Yes or No?

Hi :slight_smile:

Can I use Avast and ThreatFire together in my pc?

Thx and have a nice day. :wink:

Yes a good protection it boost avast protection with it together

I second that opinion :slight_smile:

Threatfire can be used with avast with no problems.

“ThreatFire is zero-day security software designed for the average consumer. ThreatFire protects in real-time against viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, adware, rootkits, keyloggers, and buffer overflows. It is designed to be used alongside your current antivirus to protect you between antivirus updates. Because it is behavior-based and not signature-based, ThreatFire protects against both known and unknown, or zero-day, threats. It is easy to install, painless to use, and immediately effective against today’s computer security threats. And best of all, ThreatFire is free to all home users.”

and

“It is fully compatible with most traditional antivirus programs, and can run side-by-side with these programs without conflict.”

don’t know if any of you experienced that but Threatfire is unusable in Windows Seven. You can install it, run it…and get a 3 to 4 seconds delay on pages when browsing (and yes also on google.com :wink: ). The symptom disappears as soon as you get rid of threatfire.

That’s strange…

Minimum System Requirements:

* Windows® 7 32-bit and 64-bit, Windows® Vista™ 64-bit SP1, Vista™ 32-bit, Windows XP SP1, SP2 or SP3 (Home, Pro & Media Center Editions), Windows 2003, or Windows 2008.
* 20 MB of disk space
* Some program functions require a connection to the Internet and a web browser.

see http://www.threatfire.com/requirements/

I don’t really mind, I’ve been interested in the past to run ThreatFire before Comodo Def+ came out. It’s never been an option since then. I just tried it again a few days ago out of pure curiosity. Would still be interesting to know if others experienced the same issue like I did in Win7 (adding: CIS def+ was purposely deactivated when I tried Threatfire)

Well, when I was on vista before windows 7 swap I did realize that TF did slow my system a little bit. however, It wasn’t enough to make me care. This is very strange… I would test it out as we are both on w7 with 64 bits right? but… I don’t really want too lol :cry:

no it’s OK don’t bother…I won’t use it anyway :wink:

I am on win 7 64 bit(rtm build). Threatfire slows down my system to a complete crawl. Would not recommend to use it on win 7 x64.

yeah, so this seems to confirm :wink:

Works well if your using the 32 bit version of Win 7. :slight_smile:
Something to avoid if your using the 64 bit version. :cry:

I have vista (home basic and premium) and on both the experience is not enjoyable. While the computer is not exactly crawling a noticeable slowness is visible. I also found it had issues with Skype. Skype would start and run fine but the moment I tried to have a video conference with some one skype would crash. Now I tied to disable ThreatFire and this didn’t work. The only thing that did solve the issue was a clean uninstall.

I feel bad to because I was looking forward to beef up my computer protection with free solution. oh well.

@Confused Computer User

Beef up your computers’ protection with avast! V5 Free and WinPatrol Free.

Avast has a behaviour shield right? So why Threatfire?

I will upgrade to Avast! V5 once its out of Beta.
WinPatrol is a bit weird. It looks like the Windows task manager. the publisher says:
“…WinPatrol monitors and exposes adware, keyloggers, spyware, worms, cookies, and other malicious software…”
How exactly does that work?

It’s good to have multiple overlapping security apps in order to insure a higher percent of detection. Overlap in this case is used loosely. I’m not saying you should have like two resident anti-virus programs.

Thanks for the advise. I use Avast 5, Immunet, IObit Security 360 and Online Armour Firewall.

I don’t think that I need Threatfire.

Do I ?

It’s up to you. I’m not a professional. Yokenny or bob3160 are better suited to give you a reply on this aspect.

@ Confused Computer User

Please read:
WinPatrol Free vs PLUS
http://www.winpatrol.com/compare.html

@ Chris Thomas

Threatfire is redundant for you.

I do not use IOBit Security 360 nor Immunet but it seems they are OK.

Hello, Win 7 64bit with Threatfire here, and no apparent issues like slowdowns.

Brgds
mack