Upgraded from Norton 2005

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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After using Norton’s AV for years I decided to search for another AV since a lot of people complained abot NAV. I tried AVG and allthough very light it gave me a lot of problems on Updating virus defs. I have been running Avast 4 now for a few weeks and in all 4 pc’s at home it has found some trojans and some spyware that norton or Spybot dod not find! Also in a lot of pages I regularly visit it will block certain spyware or malicious scripts. Since I am running a P4 3.2 with 1gb RAM and winXp pro I have not noticed any system slowdown even on all the rest of the celeron PC’s at home.

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I sure hope you have removed NAV completely using the uninstall/removal util from Symantec. If not it can lead to conflicts/problems.

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Hi, welcome to the forums and avast! I’m sure you won’t be disappointed.

As Eddy said, I too hope the uninstall of NAV went well, this forum is littered with people tripping over the debris left behind after a NAV uninstall.

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I to congradulate you for the switch as well. The NAV pot holes are a deff. problem. I wold recommend the Professional version if you are visiting sites that need script blocking. I have found that the pro version has block many of the problimatic sites that I reach through out the day.

But for your home, the home version is more that adequate at this point.

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I swiched from McAfee to Avast! yesterday… It’s awesome :smiley: and the beta is even better, can’t wait till the 4.6 final version :slight_smile:

Thanks for the hard work guys at Awill, btw, if I visit Praha again, can I bring you guys a little gift???

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Congratulations on your choice! Yes I have tried AVG and it gave me problems too (so it is confirmed) when updating definitions – I was behind a router. avast! had no problems whatsoever updating or loading.

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Congratulations. You did good. I also tried almost all possible av solutions, and I stayed with avast! Home, as it’s ideal for me as for student. Very good free AV program. AVG has a lots of problems with its update server already for two weeks. Avast neither had it. I hope you’ll enjoy this av and friendly forum.