TSGL: Avast email scanning

[Ray]

Justin, possibly, more thorough is correct. I hope so. 

There's also that option to have it do a system scan while the screen saver is running.  I like this feature...in that it seems to pick-up where it left off since the last time it ran.  Over the course of a couple of days it probably does a fairly thorough check.  One thing I've noticed is that it does seem to flag a lot of innocuous programs as malicious....particularly things from http://www.diamondcs.com.au/ ...;-)  I know that these are legit so I assume it's just the nature of those type of programs. 


The Computer Whisperer <justin at whisperer.com.au> wrote: one can only assume that Avast is more thorough. (lol)

I find Avast picks up viruses that many other virus scanners do not... ie...
norton.... ca/trust/vet.... etc etc.

After removing the above listed virus protection from computers and
installing Avast, it tends to find numerous threats/viruses almost
immediately... quite often just whilst doing the memory(ram) scan during the
splash screen.


In my experience it is a far more thorough product than most of the paid
products (NOD32 is the exception to the rule)

AVG seems to do a similarly good job with keeping nasties out, although I
prefer Avast due to it's intuitive nature. ie... you just let it do it's
thing and it works it all out.


Justin

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On 08/12/06, Ray  wrote:
>
> I've recently switched from free AVG to the free Avast and have noticed
> that the email scanning seems extremely slow.  I mean it takes between 10
> and 30 seconds to scan about 10 incoming emails.  It just seemed that AVG
> was so much quicker....so quick, I guess, that I never felt the need to time
> it.
>
> Is this just me or has anyone else noticed the same thing?
>
> Ray
>
> (Win XP SP2, up to date on all patches and running the most current
> Avast.)
>
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