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I also had a play with the Eicar test virus files with Avast! home edition and found that the email virus was picked up straight away whatever the setting, but the the one that tests internet explorer was only picked up when the standard shield was set to ‘high’.
I didn’t have to download the file though and ‘manually’ test it, Avast! jumped on them straight away. I set mostly every setting to high now as it doesn’t appear to make any performance difference between normal and high with my Barton XP2500 
Overall i’m well impressed with Avast! and recommend it to everyone I know!
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