TSGL: Avast w/additional features

[Lee Bunyard]

I've been using Avast 4.8 Free for about 6 months now, ever since my old 
desktop pc went south and I bought a new one running Vista.  I've been 
using AVG AV for years on my desktop and laptop running XP OS but 
couldn't get it to work right with the new pc running Vista--AVG worked 
OK for everything except I couldn't get the email scanner to work 
properly.  AVG Tech Support told me that the freeware AVG AV product had 
not been updated yet to fully support Vista.   So I downloaded Avast and 
have been using it.  I like it a lot.  There are 7 modules in the Avast 
AV program, you can use or disable any of them as you see fit.  I ended 
up disabling the Outlook/Exchange and Internet Messaging modules because 
I don't use them and also disabled the real time Web Shield, as it 
significantly slowed down the bringing up of web pages, and AVG and most 
of the other AV products don't do real time web page scanning anyway, so 
I wasn't losing any protection.  Avast works fine and has caught a 
number of viruses.  I'm still running AVG Free AV on my laptop running 
XP but am thinking about switching to Avast on that also.  I do run the 
AVG Free Anti Spyware product on both the desktop and laptop and it 
works great on both.
Lee in the Mountains of Northern California

H Davis wrote:
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2282704,00.asp
>
> This looks pretty good based on this review. There was some discussion 
> on the list a while ago about which free AV to use. This seems to have 
> upped the anti as far as capability goes.
>
> Are any of you using this yet and, if so, what's your impression.
>
>  From the review:
>
>     Avast 4.8 now protects against spyware, rootkits, and other forms of
>     nonvirus malicious software. Best of all, it's free for personal use.
>
> H Davis
>
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