Goodbye

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Hello Fellow avast! Forum users,

I have decided to move onto another antivirus application, the new antivirus I am using is Comodo Antivirus, I have many reasons for switching and they will all be explained in this post.

  1. Unknown Virus Sumitting, is one of the reasons I have switched, with avast! if you submit an unknown virus or false positive it may not be removed for weeks if it even gets removed or added. Where I have been submitting multiple virus samples to Comodo that Comodo did not detect and already Comodo detects and removes them.

  2. Forum Helping, I do not feel that this forum is a friendly as it use to be, as some of us saw a moderator changed a post because a forum member simple posted a topic with a link to Firefox Myths. It was not a big deal with what they said on that site, what comes down to it is what you think, it is you who decides if those myths were true or not.

  3. People, ignore new users here who ask a question, a friend of mine posted here asking about the forum and Alwil not caring about the users, (more then 1 person has told me this) I will not list any names, because what they say is private between them and me. Anyway, this topic was completely ignored he told me, it’s as if nobody cared about what he thought and didn’t want to try and change his opinion. Who wants to be on a forum where people don’t care what you think, that just leads to an unfriendly forum in my opinion.

Now with that said I am leaving this forum and will not use avast! or post on the forum any longer, I hope all of you understand why I am leaving. Of course if any of you have a problem e-mail me I will be more then happy to assist you with an application involving avast! or not. If anyone cares to see me again I will be on the Comodo Forums which you can find HERE.

Thank you everyone who has helped me with my questions and problems in the past. You all made it easier for me.

My E-mail: justin1278@iprime,info (notice the , change that to a . when e-mailing me)

Warm Regards,

Justin1278


P.S. S.Z. Craftec thank you for the avatar I will keep it as a memory of your amazing work.

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Anyway, this topic was completely ignored he told me, it's as if nobody cared about what he thought and didn't want to try and change his opinion.
It would have been nice to get a link to the post to at least try to find out why no reply was made. ??? Sorry to see you leave justin1278. All the best to you in your future. :'(
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I will not list any names

I never knew my last post would be number 731 :frowning: I will continue to visit you guys but never post. If I were to give you a link to the topic it would then reveal a name. I will forward a link to that person and they may post here if they wish, giving you the topic link. Now watch as nobody else will posts here and this topic gets ignored.

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Hi Justin1278,

As another avast! user who switched to Comodo myself, I have to say I agree with your post on the avast! forums.
I also have started using Comodo as my main protection and know I will never go back with how these products are developing and the way in which Comodo staff and the CEO Melih are so active to respond to users’ posts.

Mike

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I have long said that Avast! administration has turned its back on the forum members whom have made their customer support one of their leading advantages. By being here we are doing them a favou for free – and yet they give us nothing inreturn. The only reason I remain is the attempt to help people, and see how people are doing on the forum. I will most likely switch to Comodo.

It is regrettable that Avast lost touch with its most dedicated users, but I guess as its popularity spread they stopped caring. Good luck in the future, as they say in Quebec: Je me souviens.

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Ok so it didn’t end at 731 ;).

@Bob

Thank you for your kind comment.

@ Everyone

Join the Comodo Revolution (Firewall, Antivirus, Backup, Encryptor) It All Starts At COMODO

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I wouldn’t say they gave us nothing in return, they gave us avast! Home Edition for free but I guess thats why we are here, but I have other reasons to switch (in my first post in this topic).

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I have decided I will continue to support users here, but will not start new topics, only post in ones already made, and will not be on much at all, but be on the COMODO forums.

Regards,

Justin

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Glad you’re still willing to help others but, IMHO, advertising for Comodo on the avast! forum isn’t exactly the most tasteful thing to do. ???

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Fully agree… detection and virus submition are problems… we’re all complaining about that.

Hope we can ‘solve’ this between the users and, if not, Alwil changes the way the things are taking… It’s not good to stay where you’re unpleased :-\

Sorry. Disagree. We tried to avoid this most…

Cool 8)

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Justin,

Just a few days ago you gave Mrcomputer some pretty compelling reasons to stay with avast! when he was considering Comodo AV. I’m not trying to argue - just wondering if there’s more to this.

M

ps Glad your sticking around.

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Glad you're still willing to help others but, IMHO, advertising for Comodo on the avast! forum isn't exactly the most tasteful thing to do. Huh
Bob, I'm not advertising just the antivirus, but the Firewall and Backup utilities as well, so I'm not really going against avast! but just saying they can help work along with avast! by using the Firewall.

@Mauserme,

No there is no more to this, but over the past couple of days people have come and told me how they feel and I completely agreed with them, then I simply asked myself, if I know they are doing these things, then why should I use their product? I will stay here for a while and continue to help other people here, although I will most likely not use avast! again I must say a lot of the people here are worth staying for :wink:

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Such scenario happens to me too. :-\

I keep on recommending avast! Home Edition to many people but most of them switched to AVG Free, they tell me avast! is obtrusive and slows down their computers (even avast! 4.7 has real-time scanner speed optimization). It seems to me that they like AVG Free over avast! Home just because of AVG Free is faster, lighter and less obtrusive than avast!.

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:slight_smile: Why anyone would “switch” to an antivirus ( “Comodo”)
that will NOT be ready for “prime time” in at least 2 yrs,
if ever, is irrational . CEO Melih salesmanship appears to
have swayed Justin.
And no mention as to why one of Comodo’s Products is
in SpywareBlaster’s database; seems a “stain” on the
company and make their products “suspect” !?

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Spiritsongs,

With all due respect, please look at THIS TOPIC

Me and a few other avast! users have switched completely to Comodo and like it a lot. Here is a nice review of their Firewall view the review HERE

Regards,

Justin

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Hi justin1278…

I’m glad you’ve decided to stick around, good help is always needed :slight_smile:

Best Regards…

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I agree with that. Please read this thread: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=130055 . It’s just not ready yet, and if I remember correctly it has a 28% detection rate. Anyway, good luck with whatever you deside to do.

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Well Comodo Firewall is just fine, but i wouldn’t use Comdodo Antivirus yet. It’s simply not mature enough, even though it has great potential.
AV-Comparatives test also showed very low detection rate and from what i heard it also has problems with complex malware (i.e. polymorphic).

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From its antivirus comparison chart table, I think Comodo Antivirus is too good to be true and it’s simply not mature enough.

http://www.antivirus.comodo.com/comparison.html?currency=EUR&region=Europe&country=IS

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Hi justin1278,

Just some remarks here.
I can understand that you rage against some things as they are. But I think this has nothing to do with the forum or with Avast as such. I learned a few things here, and I had to completely review a few of my assumptions, I had before I came to frequent here. And glad I did.

First I had some misconceptions on the workings of AV canners, and especially where resident scanning was concerned. Resident AV scanners, my good friends, are dangerous instruments in the hands of the non-educated, and you all better know it. Not properly used they have ruined many an OS.

Avast is the least unfriendly or I found out it to be at least. Having it on various machines for a couple of years, I can tell this, and because they take “Cure, but do not harm” seriously at heart, I like to stick with this product, because I had terrible experiences in this respect with the big overbloated so-called total solutions.

Just think of the way memory management works on a Windows, and the mysterious ways of defrag and scandisk, restore results, and you know why I make this remarks about scanning, I am not talking about FP’s. Some AV products I would not like to touch with a stick, just for the reason of FP’s.

Then there is another thing. The days that one AV product together with one software firewall could protect you adequately, are long gone, and probably will never return within our days.
Microsoft in Vista is going to randomize system outset every boot-up, but that will not be the last answer as well.

To cover the complete malware range in protection, you need multi-layered protection, also where scanning is concerned. I for instance do my online scanning with Bitdefender. have DrWeb’s latetst version of CureIt installed, and to be able to cover a wide range of malware definitions, also run ClamWin as a non-resident scanner, and both scanners perform their in-browser services on demand as well (in Flock, and Firefox).

A major lesson learnt is to avoid drive-by infections or on-the-fly installs of malware in scanning or using your OS without admin rights. This reduces the chances of hitting the malware jackpot enormously. Combine it with a strict mail policy, and your computer has a much better chance to stay malware free. Anti spyware is also essential here. But you know what I mean.

A further lesson learnt is to keep your computer clean after
every session. There I use a whole range of tools: CCleaner, URL view, Odkurzacz, ATF Cleaner. Then also Reg Analyzing is part of keeping the crap out.

Always been a warm supporter of in-browser security: NoScript, AdBlock Super + G updater, siteadviser, surfcontrol on demand, safe searching with Scandoo - Traffic Lights for Web Search – Web Search protected from internet security threats and offensive content.

There is more but it is all in my new line of thinking, and you know where I learn this, the inspiration comes from here in this forum. As the old undoer-of-evil-malware fighter says, and it is particularly true: “The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse eats the cheese”. Security factor one is you sitting behind the keyboard. If you do not know what you’re doing, you can totally get a computer unworkable because of
malware in a couple of days.

I miss some friends here. What happened to good old Marco, gone as in “Nacht und Nebel”. The one who got me hanging around here, Eddy, a friend from around where I live. There are others I came to learn better, but we sometimes have different views. Like Bob. He helped me out twice with some golden tips, and I owe him. Great guy.

What I do not like is trolls just for the sake of trolling. Luring a bit to get a better view of how matters stick together or getting people “in the know” to open up a bit,I have no problem with that. But deliberately starting to attack others is not done. I like netiquette always.

On the other hand always try to understand why others react as they do. Have an open mind. In this way Ilearned a lot.

Evaluate, yes, evaluate properly,always do that. Do not be impressed by the so-called experts, when they speak with authority, but make up your own mind by comparing views and weighing the facts. Some youngsters to-day think that all things
and articles on the net is trustworthy. It is not or it is only partially so.

Have a good day my friend, and stay secure, and malware free is the wish of,

polonus