I just installed Avast in the past couple of days; abandoning Norton Internet Security (which BTW, I’ve been using Norton products religiously for 14 years), to use AVAST and another popular firewall. So far I really like Avast with the other firewall. My computer is at least 3-4 times faster then it was before, and I can EVERYTHING ;D during normal operation. The only Norton product I use now is GHOST.
For anyone that looks at my profile, you will see I originally registered in May, 09 (the reason for the “sortof” in the subject line); but that was during my evaluation of Avast.
Welcome to the Avast family finally, I’m sure you won’t be disappointed in avast or the forums.
The new CEO of Alwil software used to be with Symantec, he likes avast too ;D
Another link to bookmark or subscribe to on RSS is http://blog.avast.com/ to keep up to date with avast related news. Just had the 100,000,000 avast registration ;D
I’m new, too (having abandoned AVG, which WAS good prior to version 9, but too “bloated” for a dial-up user - at the moment - like me)
Just feeling my way around Avast! at the moment.
A question:
How important/urgent is it to run that Virus database Generator thing? The “i” ball. Haven’t done that yet, because I chewed up hours and hours of dial-up time trying 3 times to download AVG version 9, and then ages downloading Avast! and waiting while it did its initial scan or whatever it was doing. I’d rather wait till next month before I run any more lengthy scans.
I am a very non-techy, low-key home computer user (just a few emails and an obscure message board I belong to) and have never had a virus. I use Firefox, which maybe helps a little, security-wise.
I would say the VRDB (Virus Recovery DataBase) isn’t so important now as it was and is something which is actually being dropped from the new avast 5.0 when it is released.
When it was initially released many years ago it was able to deal with repair of many file infecter virus infections. This has up to a point changed as the more aggressive file infecters tend to encrypt the elements they insert into files, some even do more making repair in some cases almost impossible. So prevention, trying to keep them out is a higher priority I would say.
These are my personal thoughts and not those of Alwil software, the team behind avast.
If you haven’t got the NoScript add-on for firefox that too improves overall protection.
