Avast's competitions

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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is Avast PRO or internet security better than ESET?

2

What answer do you think your going to get on the avast forum, why dont you download eset and decide for yourself.

3

Better on what?
Detection, performance, false positives, removal of malware…?

Better is very subjective…

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http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/summary-reports Summary of 2010 compares the install/use of both.

5

Since the time it was actually referred to as “Hospital at the Edge of the Disk”, I have trialled/tested NOD32 many times with great satisfaction.

Personal Cons:
More expensive
No IMAP scanning
Don’t like the robot logo (Yea, I know it’s trivial ;D)

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Sure. ;D 8)
asyn

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SORRY, I just want to ask what paid security suite is better. Someone says that the avast internet security or pro is better, someone that eset is better. I don’t want to try It on my pc because it’s too long process and can cause conflicts (avast hate ESET).

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Try/buy Avast Internet Security you won,t be a disappointed. :wink:

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  1. i’m not internet manager
  2. I don’t have sensitive data on my pc
  3. I don’t want to pay every year for antivirus if i can have free comodo firewall with proactive defense+ (against hackers,malware,spyware and all next stuff…) + avast free and that’s better free protection than paid avast internet suite, because of sandbox that is better than avast’s and proactive defense+ protection and better firewall than avast. avast firewall won’t protect you from hackers (I cannot confirm this, but I read it on the forum)

and can you please tell me something about avg? can this compete to avast? (off-topic but i’m leader of this topic so I can determine what about will be this topic)

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AVG was ok, but now it’s bloated and slow(er) compared to Avast. I used to use AVG and recommended it for years until I found Avast. Now, it’s a no-brainer.

Also, Avast doesn’t “hate” ESET. All resident A/V’s conflict with other A/V’s. It’s just how they work.

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Most important thing is detection of course. Avast is ofcourse best in perfomance. But I read in av comparatives that avast is bad in removal of malware (it miss some registry entries, and this stuff can stuck computer’s registry - malware can be completely deleted by avast), false positives aren’t so bad on avast.

But anytime (long time version 5.0.699) I just typed in google search “nobrain.dk” and It pop-ups that it blocked trojan horse (how?) i wasn’t enter that site I just type nobrain.dk into google. Is this bug?

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of course that more resident shields cause conflicts, but i speak about “remains” stuff of avast that can confuse ESETs shield

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Again, “remains” of A/V can happen from any A/V. That’s the reason why most A/V companies provide removal tools to fully remove their products after an un-install.

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Not if you’re using Google Chrome as your browser, since it’s search bar is also the URL bar. Typing that domain would take you directly to the webpage, thus having avast alert on it.

If you weren’t using chrome, then no, it shouldn’t have alerted you because you didn’t access the site. I’ve never seen it do that with any other site that hosts malware, so I don’t know why that one would be any different.

By the way, warn someone before you post a site like that! I did it to test, and not only was that completely nasty, it’s very not work appropriate. :-[