In past I mentioned that I removed Avast from my laptop and installed back Norton which was shipped freely with my laptop but my home PC still has Avast. Just for the test I refered to the following web site and used the tool to check if Avast passes.
http://damselsoft.freeservers.com/
I was not able to genrate the Positve test out of Avast. Avast failed on all 4 tests on my home PC and I’m bit scared again. Guys please do check the link and test u r Anti virus and then let me know if you manage to genrate Positive Output out of these tests?
May be I’m doing something wrong while testing! If you manage to get +ve result please paste the steps to reproduce it!
I would not be to worried about the results. Avast is a very reliable AV.
If you read through the vendor notes, not any of the AVs tested really did well.
That indicates to me that the test file is not a fair indication of the AV protection.
Kumar did not list ONE antivirus program that passed the test.
I would be more inclined to judge an AV by Virus Bulletin.
Avast does well against the Eicar Test Virus but some users have had resultant problems with their systems after executing the file, not because of Avast, but rather how their system reacted to what it “thought” was a real virus.
I have been using Avast Home and Pro for more than a year now and Avast has saved my “butt” many times over.
Maybe… Which configuration did you use: High, Normal, archive files scanning… :
To work properly (and fill your needs), avast must be properly configurated
The default of Avast scanner is Normal. Setting it to high may slow down the computer a bit since Avast now takes a longer, closer look at files…
so expect a difference in performance.
You may also start receiving false positives at the HIGH setting. If the error messages are verified as false, then I suggest you set it back to Normal.
Actually we did have a couple of def updates over the last 6 months or so that generated unusual numbers of FP’s. But in both cases they were corrected by the team almost immediately and replaced with fresh updates.
This is what I’m talking about…
I’m not saying the false positives do not exist. Only that is unfare to say that avast has a lot of them or, even worse, Alwil does not correct the virus databases.
High setting just means it has more agressive scanning,but detection rate is theoretically the same (no more false positives). The only biggest difference is that on High you cannot move viral files over hard disk (detected on copy/move command) while on Normal you can move viral files and are scanned and blocked when trying to execute it (open command).
