the last av-comparatives report prove unbelievable truth
Iam protected more than people who paid for protection so THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU AVAST for your full function and protection free antivirus
http://www.av-comparatives.org/images/stories/test/ondret/avc_od_aug2010.pdf
Not all test results will be favourable, not all testing is relevant, and no product is without fault.
But certainly a point well made for avast! Free.
Very good results, congratulations to avast team 8)
Then you will like this one as well:
Here’s an interesting one for you, http://www.avast.com/pr-avast-free-antivirus-is-a-suite-performer.
[b]PRAGUE, Czech Republic, September 21, 2010[/b] - avast! Free Antivirus was a top performer in the Dennis Technology Labs test sponsored by Symantec, outscoring a number of paid-for applications.Avast! Free Antivirus outscored the paid-for internet security suites from Bit-Defender, McAfee, and Trend-Micro. In addition, avast! topped the below-average performance of free programs from AVG, Avira, and Microsoft Security Essentials.
Get that, in a test sponsored by Symantec 
Dennis Technology Labs… this name reminds me this blog post ;D
http://blog.avast.com/2009/10/30/dennis-technology-labs-vs-vince-technology-labs-can-testing-paid-for-by-an-av-company-be-trusted/
I’d like to see how Symantec performs in this recent “paid” test
Yes – it is a good product – and it seems to take less resources - as a previous McAfee and Norton user, whose products sapped the life out of the computer - Avast is fantastic :)!
Yes that blog was from over a year ago, but the principal is I guess still the same with sponsored test, there will always be a suspicion that the man who pays the piper calls the tune.
The same as the last one it paid for.
This is the Symantec sponsored test at Denis Publications labs, http://www.dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/security/anti-malware/symantec/.
There is a pdf link for the report on that page and avast although a free antivirus, did exceptionally well in the Symantec sponsored test, given what Symantec has said about free products not being able to protect you over paid products. Considering avast 5 free beet many paid suites, I think that particular duck has been shot down.
The problem with the test is that it doesn’t take account of people using firefox and NoScript as that negates many of the various site exploits, even without noscript firefox side steps some exploits that only work on IE. So Chrome would also help in this regard.
Totaly agree, with Avast I can boot up my pc, read a webpage and use email ;D
;D ;D ;D
Yep, avast rocks and the support here is terrific.
I’m glad I switched from Avira. I’ll give up the .1%
Thanks for the links. Of course Symantec is the first prize
There is a pdf link for the report on that page and avast although a free antivirus, did exceptionally well in the Symantec sponsored test, given what Symantec has said about free products not being able to protect you over paid products. Considering avast 5 free beet many paid suites, I think that particular duck has been shot down.+1
I noticed that over the half of the sample malware URLs (21/40) are blacklisted by avast VPS… impressive 8)