Pandora,

Thank you for posting such this article however, next time, would you please obtain a translated copy. Many users here are not Dutch speaking. I have provided a fair translation for you. It really did not say too much damaging about Avast. I have not detected any failure of Avast to identify, isolate and clean any virus in downloaded email or documents.

THE HAGUE - Antivirus programmes intercept not nearly all viruses on the computer. That message was communicated Wednesday to the consumer association as a result of a study into virus scanners.

The consumer association with the British consumer group Consumers Association the antivirussoftware available in the Netherlands have for free tested internet antivirus programmes. From the research it becomes clear that virus scanners frequently let fall through Trojan horses, and viruses which have been disguised as ordinary programs and allow them to come in the computer at some points easily.

The free antivirus software AVG let four of five Trojan horses by and the program Norman, let through half of the trojans. Infected Word-documents were used as an extra test and the software let the infected files be downloaded. The virus scanner Avast permitted downloading the viruses simply. The well-known programs McAfee, Norton and Kaspersky did well in the test.

The consumer association has examined eight virus scanners, three firewalls and celebrate cords with both types software.

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