You guys that hate YouTube tests, and say that they have no correlation between avast!'s real world performance and reality, well you better not tell the mother-ship that. On Facebook, avast! themselves are promoting positive user YouTube video tests in an attempt to advertise their product ( https://www.facebook.com/avast ).

I have always enjoyed YouTube AV tests and still do. I don’t take them as the holy grail of all test methods, and I also don’t use or not use a product based on them alone, but I do get a good sense of how the product might react on my machine. I see no problem with avast! hyping their product anyway they see fit, but now you haters need to get on board too…You know who you are! :wink:

So they are…sigh…

Though…thinking about it…it keeps the youtube videos away from here. ;D

Sure, a company (especially anyone in marketing/customer outreach) will always embrace positive results…and deny or debunk bad ones. Think about it, if there was someone running around town saying “Hey, that Gargamel360, he is drop-dead sexy, a real lady-killer!”, I would feel no need to interrupt or argue (no matter if that is true or not), in fact I might just point this person out to people with endorsements like “This person really knows what they are talking about!” ;D

Right, and thats the best way to view them, not as Tests, but more as a Demo.

Wait, are you taking the “Avast! Pirate” thing too seriously? You will not shanghai me aboard the S.S. YouTube that easily, you are supposed to at least get the person really drunk before you try the shanghai, I feel cheated. ;D

LOL! ;D

I don’t care who is doing the promotion the analysis is the same, sample size too limited to be statistically significant one way or another, good, bad or indifferent.

DBone:
I have to agree with you 100%…I was in sales for 30 years and as a saleman I promoted my product always in the lime light :slight_smile: that is the nature of the business and no difference with software company’s In Avast corner they have a lot to boast about as their products are at the top of the line and should promote them whatever avenue they decide.

I agree with DavidR…it doesnt make any sense with actual AV capability.