Anybody use Avast?

I use avast on all my pc in the house and we are currently running 5 and have had no problems.

Although i was warned the other day although avast says it works with windows 7 it apparently does not i was told by the tech guys at pc world.
HTH.

if it continues i can recommend trend antivirus which mrs zsrob as just purchased for her new laptop

Microsoft Security Essentials is good and free, or if you dont want that then AVG.

i use to use avg but it started slowing my pc's down terribly in the end so switched to avast.

i have also used avira which is free and very good with no conflict to your pc's speed

Seems to have sorted itself out overnight - since yesterday morning its been ok.
Cheers for replies!

caled said:

Microsoft Security Essentials is good and free, or if you dont want that then AVG.

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I downloaded MSE out of desperation but it was useless. It missed all the infections that MBAM successfully cleaned up. In the end you need a combination of AV programs. I use AVG Free (good at blocking attack sites, but useless at cleaning sophisticated virii and trojans). MBAM Free is excellent, but the Free version isn't realtime so it wont stop you from getting infected. Adaware is a lot more sophisticated than it used to be but the interface is rubbish and it keeps disabling legitimate online games that I have installed (even when you tell it not to!) The "nuclear option" is always "Combofix", but that's a last resort.

mine was going mental last night, is it sorted now?

I am at work, so not at home with my lappy to find out!

Gary Gee said:

If so are you having trouble tonight? On almost all my favourites sites on other laptop I am getting warnings of trojans, viruses etc

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Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebytes (You have to periodically scan) would be what I recommend for staying safe. Also, steer away from Internet explorer and stick to firefox and chrome and you'll be fine. Avast and AVG are both great pieces of software and I'd recommend them also if you don't want MS SE. I find MS Security Essentials to be better on PC resources though.

Keosk said:

I downloaded MSE out of desperation but it was useless. It missed all the infections that MBAM successfully cleaned up. In the end you need a combination of AV programs. I use AVG Free (good at blocking attack sites, but useless at cleaning sophisticated virii and trojans). MBAM Free is excellent, but the Free version isn't realtime so it wont stop you from getting infected. Adaware is a lot more sophisticated than it used to be but the interface is rubbish and it keeps disabling legitimate online games that I have installed (even when you tell it not to!) The "nuclear option" is always "Combofix", but that's a last resort.

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MSE won't pick up most malware, it was never really intended to (Malware and Viruses being two different peices of software loosely speaking), A mix of anti viral software and MBAM is the safest way to be. I work in IT Support and MSE is a piece of kit we totally recommend.

Hi All

I also use Avast and the other night notified me of trojan horses and had to do all sorts to clean the PC up.
Now it runs extremely slow and don't know really what to do and seemed to have lost my internet connection.
Cheers
Giuseppe
MG ZT-T 2.5 V6

MGJOE said:

Hi All

I also use Avast and the other night notified me of trojan horses and had to do all sorts to clean the PC up.
Now it runs extremely slow and don't know really what to do and seemed to have lost my internet connection.
Cheers
Giuseppe
MG ZT-T 2.5 V6

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Exactly what mine did but seems to have sorted itself out, thank God!

Been using Avast for a few years on home and work PC, it seems to run fine with XP Pro with SP3 and MS updates firmly diasbled.

ViT said:

MSE won't pick up most malware, it was never really intended to (Malware and Viruses being two different peices of software loosely speaking), A mix of anti viral software and MBAM is the safest way to be. I work in IT Support and MSE is a piece of kit we totally recommend.

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I used to get fed up with people going on about MBAM but now I'm a convert myself. As you say, a mix is essential. It's very rare for one piece of kit to fully restore your system to it's original state. The new trojans are pretty sophisticated. You think you've cleaned them up but crazy things can happen afterwards, like .dll files to do with Windows Security Center getting deregistered, or orphaned virus entries in the registry causing problems.
Thanks for the info on MSE. I never really studied what it does but figured if Microsoft designed it its got to be good for something. So now I know.

I've used avast for the past 3 years and never had problems with trojan/viruses nor with PC slow.
Previously I had McAfee and Norton either one made the PC slow.
I've also used kaspersky and I liked it.
I didn't like panda. Once I caught a virus. Perhaps it was just bad luck, there isn't a perfect antivirus. I could get a virus with avast. But I gave up on panda ever since.