How many virusdefinitions has avast, i am still in doubt to try the avast pro version and it’s important to know how many virusses, worms, trojans and malware this version can catch
its somewhere in the 27000 i dought.But i am not sure
The number of virus definations is not an accurate indication of how effective and AV is, because there is no common database of definations, let alone virus naming being the same between AV companies.
Some will group some of the more obscure varients in the same virus together others will count each and everyone. There is no way these can be compared.
This has been discused previously (many times before), a search of the forums may prove useful.
vlokkie
How many virusdefinitions has avastOne more thing to keep in mind. It's not how many but, which ones that count. As long as the AV program that you use stops any potential viruses that you run into that's really all that's important. IMHO Avast! does that job for me and that's why I chose it.
If you count all generic detections it goes far far beyond 40k. But this is a very estimated number. You cannot predict how many malware can be detected with GEN detection or maybe heurstics.