such a light and very quick av!

system · 2015-07-22T18:08:46.000Z

I have been with bitdefender for a year and they have recently had a memory leak which uses anywhere between 300mb up to 800mb other people have seen it go to 2gb!. the memory leak gradually builds up over time! it’s a nightmare.

I went from bitdefender to kaspersky since it’s number 2 for the best protection/performance due to bitdefender having that leak but some guy on g2a sold me a dodgy key. I remember being on avast a few years back and it was good but everyone was saying bitdefender and kasperksy had the better performance but I can tell you now that avast is so much quicker than both bitdefender and kasperksy.

It uses around 50mb compared to kaspersky’s 80mb/100mb I think when bitdefender didn’t have the leak it was hoovering around 150/200mb, this must be the lightest av going. The only thing that puts me off avast is the protection it hasn’t got the same protection as kaspersky and bitdefender.

I think the optimization tool should be free with avast premier! bitdefender has a clean up tool and they don’t charge extra for it! paying £49.99 is a fair bit and to not put the clean up tool in there is a bit greedy in all honesty! so you have to fork out £70 to add the clean up tool.

system · 2015-07-23T00:25:11.000Z

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so much for being one of the best AV’s right… 2 months and still issues… they were saying it wasn’t a bug it was normal, a few weeks later that’s when they found out it wasn’t a bug! it’s past 2 weeks and still no fix. An update is supposedly coming this week to put it back down to 200mb even 200mb is a lot!.

Please avast make your protection top notch and keep your memory low, also keeping the best performance, I’ll be back to you’s in a hear beat.

Eddy · 2015-07-23T01:00:01.000Z

Did you completely remove BitDefender and Kaspersky completely before installing avast ?

See http://www.ache.nl for removal tools/instructions.

system · 2015-07-23T01:07:07.000Z

thanks man will be saving this to my favourites awesome site.

The issue isn’t with avast though just letting people know that bitdefender is in a mess at the minute and avast uses less ram and is much quicker than the both of them.

I will use these uninstall tools to make sure the AV’s are completely off the pc. I normally just uninstall them via control panel and the use ccleaner to get rid of anything.

Eddy · 2015-07-23T01:37:36.000Z

thanks man will be saving this to my favourites awesome site.

Wow! Thank you. Never expected to hear someone saying that about my simple website.

With almost every nowadays software, uninstalling through control panel is not removing everything.
CCleaner is a good tool, but it also doesn’t remove every leftover(s).

What I normally do is this:

Uninstall through control panel.
Reboot.
Check if there is a removal tool and if there is, use it.
Reboot.
Check manually for leftover folders/files.
If there are any, delete them.
Reboot.
Run CCleaner to scan/clean the registry.
Keep scanning/cleaning until nothing is found anymore.
Reboot (Windows only read certain registry entries at boot time).
I check again for leftover folders/files/registry entries.

Yes, I know, it is quiet some work.
But it is the best way (in my opinion) to remove things.

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