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Norton Internet Security 2009 - $69.99 (sale 59.99)

Avast Home Edition Free - FREE

I'm not a fan of Free AV suites, I just don't trust them. I follow the expression "You get nothing in this world for free".

Actually, I bought my copy of NIS 2009 from Symantec for a heavily discounted price.

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I'm not a fan of Free AV suites, I just don't trust them. I follow the expression "You get nothing in this world for free".

Actually, I bought my copy of NIS 2009 from Symantec for a heavily discounted price.

I understand where you're coming from. But Avast's reputation is IMPECCABLE. Easily among the most trustworthy of AV suites, free or paid. Feature rich yet lightweight.

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I'm not a fan of Free AV suites, I just don't trust them. I follow the expression "You get nothing in this world for free".

I have put Avast on over a hundred machines which have never had a follow-up issue or a single virus.

Think of the paid vs. free this way: Avast/AVG are paying you (with a free edition) to be one of several million worldwide holding up their bug net, so that they get the widest possible coverage for their bug net, which gives them instantly accurate virus definitions in your database which they turn around and sell to the top corporations in the world for millions of dollars.

Norton does this too, but they charge you money to hold their bug net for them. Sucker?

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In AVG's defence if you do a custom install you can choose not to install the bloat (Linkscanner, Language Files & email scanner) and you end up with a pretty lean resident scanner and not much else, which is how I like it.

Thanks will try that because I have always liked AVG until that last edition came out and was runnin up my CPU.

Has anyone compared Avira free with Avast or AVG? I haven't gotten around to it because with Avast on my machines for the past 10 years I don't even think about anti-virus, even when clean reinstalling it just flies by me in about 5 minutes.

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Avast seems to be working fine for me here :).

Quote - (astrokat @ May 4 2009, 06:36)

ROFL!! I just installed Avast and wtf is up with the "VIRUS DATABASE HAS BEEN UPDATED!!"

I had my speakers really loud and it just scared the crap out of me.

lol, I always disable the sounds straight away after installing it :p.

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I swear if you try to override it when it has blocked a known threat, that voice will argue with you!! You can't do it unless you turn it off (right click icon in tray, Turn off Resident Protection).

You can also turn off the Recovery Database it builds in background and merge that tray icon with main one. I've never had it on so don't know if it would slow you down, but I know I don't want it.

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The problem with free AV isn't necessarily the detection rate, but configuration and management. All require more out of the box configuration than your average end user can stomach.

AVG - Decent UI but too much of everything (NIS Syndrome)

Avast - Good AV with a horrid default UI and sluggish scan times

Avira - Great detection rates hamstrung by gay popups (my fav)

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McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.7.0i installed and run fine on my Windows 7 RC (x64).

This version was released for Windows XP/Vista and license through my school.

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The problem with free AV isn't necessarily the detection rate, but configuration and management. All require more out of the box configuration than your average end user can stomach.

Exactly. They may be good at what they do but they require more configuring than most paid-for suites, and also I'd rather not recieve messages or pop-ups trying to make me upgrade to their 'paid-for' versions.

NIS 2009 requires very little configuration, though the options menu is confusing, its very rare you have to change something.

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The problem with free AV isn't necessarily the detection rate, but configuration and management. All require more out of the box configuration than your average end user can stomach.

AVG - Decent UI but too much of everything (NIS Syndrome)

Avast - Good AV with a horrid default UI and sluggish scan times

Avira - Great detection rates hamstrung by gay popups (my fav)

Latest versions of Avast have a "minimal" install that is just bare bones and no idiot boombox UI.

When you claim these "gay popups" does it occur to you that you are announcing inner fantasies to everyone on here, like we care what you think about all the time? :blush:

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im using SEP MR4...you can install "antivirus antispyware" part of the program though...just install liveupdate first and then do custom install and remove all but "antivirus antispyware" :) works great!!!
The newest MR4 update seems to fix the rollback problem people are having trying to install it on their Windows 7 setup. and SEP FTW. I love the x64 support :D
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Can you verify your build number Cldmani? Can anyone confirm this on x86? It will install but scan performance and other oddities still abound for me.

While the Avast minimal skin is much better, its still not great. While it isn't nearly as horrid as the default skin, its still quite lacking in comparison to the others.

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