Have been using Avast Home addition for around 6 monthsnow and before used F-Secure. I have been very impressed with the program, updating and support from this forum.
I have a question? Norton, Mcaffee and Avast Pro have script blockers yet home edition, F-secure and some other AV programs do not?
Would the on access scanner not detect a script or what indeed does the script blocker do? Why does a top program like F-secure not have it if its imortant. (Top as good as Avast of course : ;D
I have a question? Norton, Mcaffee and Avast Pro have script blockers yet home edition, F-secure and some other AV programs do not?
I think the easyest answer to that one is "You get what you pay for"
As noted in your quote, the programs that offer it, are programs you pay for. Hope that answers your question. :)
No I agree with you that Avast is excellent. I used to use F-secure as I like the fact it used 3 engines to scan (KAV, F Prot and Orion which is there own engine) and if you put it on some ‘zoo’ virus samples I am sure F-secure would out perform Avast but after all its the in the wild virus’s we need protection from! Avast seem to update the VPS files very quickly and regulaly when new virus’s occur.
I have since moved to Avast and in fairness it has detected all virus’s sent to me in the wild no probs, Has a great E mail scanner and very good auto update feature so I am well happy.
Script Blocker scans scripts loaded by the browser; Standard Shield scans files read from/written to the disk.
A faulty web browser may execute a malicious piece of code opened directly from a web-page; the code may not be written to disk at all (or just for caching purposes; the original code may be already active, however, so blocking the cache access may not be very useful).