Wow you got about 1500000 anti virus and anti spyware.
Wow !!!
Remember that some people only use avast!,Malwarebytes,Windows Defender and 2 ways firewall and their pc is very fast and protected alot. So you dont need like 150 security program for be so much protected… Wow…
Site Advisor i would say it isnt needed excepted if your a guy who click every site you see in a page.
Other wise Web Shield of avast! isnt that bad. My self i never got problem with it ;D
See my signature for the security programs on my system. I’m having no problems with Avast 5.0.396 at all. Except for the SpyBot S&D IE Protection (BHO) SDHelper.dll which loads when Internet Explorer is loaded, I have no other active protection enabled besides Avast 5.
The rest of the programs are on-demand only. I do have the immunizations by SpywareBlaster and SpyBot Search & Destroy enabled, but they are in a sense passive.
I use Firefox as my primary browser with NoScript and AdBlock Plus plus other extensions. Anyone using Internet Explorer should read http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/980088.mspx. I don’t know if Patch Tuesday next week will address this or not. I did use the Fix-It-Now link provided at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980088. That said, I believe that all browsers have security flaws, both detected and undetected. Whether the criminals find them first is a matter of luck. 
Absolute security is a goal which will probably never be achieved. :-\
hi just use Avast 5 for real time protection, and malwarebytes free as on demand scanner, and a decent firewall like comodo with HIPS enabled.
And NoScript.
So I don’t have to worry about Avast 5 and compatibility with my other programs? If not, then I’ll install it today…
Not sure about Spyware Terminator (real time scanner kept on) that you mentioned. :-\ You can answer that after updating to Avast 5. 
Perhaps another forum member is using it, and can answer beforehand.
Im really frustrated with the new avast 5… It has lots of bugs but still released… Everytime I open my computer I have to restart it due to conflict with MBAM so I didn’t allow the MBAM on startup but a while ago I was running the MBAM scanner then my system freeze, I rebooted the PC and run the MBAM scan again and it still freezes… Im switching AV for now… Don’t wanna wait till it completely destroys my computer due to consistent freezes and bugs on this release… 
I had a serious problem with Avast 5 (free) and Outpost Firewall Pro on my Windows 7 netbook. All was well when I had Avast 4.8, but as soon as I upgraded to version 5, I could no longer access the Internet when I was using Outpost and Avast. Since I had paid for Outpost, and since lots of people were reporting problems with Avast, I decided to stop using Avast, at least until more of the bugs are fixed. I replaced it with Microsoft Security Essentials. That’s working fine with Outpost Pro and with MBAM Pro real-time protection.
Avira also works perfectly well with MBAM real-time.
I’m wondering if the people at Alwil are still working on that incompatibility.
They don’t give any feedback on that issue here in the forum.
Still a piece of junk. I have Windows XP SP3.I uninstalled 4.8, deleted the couple of registry entries left and the folder in the "programs folder. Restarted and installed 5.0.396. went online download e-mail using Thunderbird and started Firefox 3.6 within a second or two Firefox froze. Thunderbird froze and then the who puter froze had to hold the power button to get puter to restart. Same problems as before with 5.0.377. No mbam or windows defender on Zonealarm. Unistalled 5.0.396 and reinstalled 4.8 and everything is working OK. Last time I try 5 until there is a 5.1 and nobody is having any problems.
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Can be exported settings?
If you can, where?
I want to save the settings in the event that we need them.
Is it possible to?
I’m not sure what it is you want to save as the quote references MBAM and disabling its resident protection to over come a conflict problem. This problem should now be resolved in avast 5.0.418.
If you are talking about saving/exporting the avast settings there isn’t that function in the program.