I’ve gotten some mixed information here from reading previous post but I wanted to know if like the major antivirus vendors, does avast! also do a good job of detecting trojan horses. ??? I think this is especially important considering that trojan horses and not viruses are on a major rise. It appears trojan horses and spyware is becoming more of a problem than viruses according to some security articles I’ve read in the past for 2006 and beyond.
Whilst avast does detect some trojans it is not a specialist anti-trojan tool and for that you are better combining a program that specialises in that area such as Ewido anti-spyware If using winXP. or a-Squared free if using win98/ME.
Anti-spyware is another specialist area, avast does detect some spyware but you would be better of including a specialist tool such as.
- Ad-Aware
- Spybot Search and Destroy
- Spywareblaster Don’t install this until you are clean.
All of the above work well with avast and this multi-application/level gives a better overall level of protection than a single application.
Yeah, I figured this was the case. I think I might add ewido to my lineup depending on how Windows Defender will perform once it’s out of beta.
Yes, avast! can detect trojans as well as other type of malware, see the VPS history and you’ll see that most of items end with [Trj] tag.
http://www.avast.com/eng/vps_history.html
[Trj] = Trojan Horses
A review of AV Comparatives indicates that Avast has a detection rate with trojans of 80.35%. Some others such as Kaspersky show over 99%.
My personal view is that with Avast, security of the computer profits much from the addition of Ewido or a-squared to layer the security.
I like to layer with any AV.
Jerry