BryanChung Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Has anyone compare this with Kaspersky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dance. Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Looks good. Very good infact. Hope it's as responsive as it looks good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwod Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 UI looks good but I'm sticking with MSE. I simply won't tolerate upsell ads in my free security programs any longer! upsell ads?? Where did that come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BertilDator Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Used about 5-10 Mb so far, The new interface is simply great, It's very light when going from element to another in the interface too. Criteria for good anti-virus program is not how great the interface is, IMHO. Although you can annoy people by showing strange dialogs all the time, such as Norton does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Xomkey Subscriber² Posted January 21, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted January 21, 2010 Either you have crap speakers or a crap soundcard because the voice has gone from a robotic male voice to a smoother female voice - how on earth is that worse?You obviously don't have many large folder structures then. This MSE bug has been in MSE since BETA, large folder browsing makes disk i/o crawl as the resident engine scans every file very slowly and uses most of the CPU %. My software folder conatins all downloaded software installers and disc images of mine so is around 21GB in size, loading it takes ages in MSE where as in AVAST it's instant. The heuristics engine and scanner behaviour allow more control in AVAST too and it's more feature packed. I have this exact problem, huge folder full of downloaded installers that takes ages to load all the icons. I never thought MSE could be the culprit. Disabled it in Services, and voila, the icons loads almost instantly now. Time to go back to avast I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrk Reviews Posted January 21, 2010 Reviews Share Posted January 21, 2010 upsell ads?? Where did that come from? His backside :p AVAST Free has no ads, either he installed something else or downloaded AVAST from a 3rd party who packaged ads. I've said it before but common sense people, you lack it if you cannot figure out how to not install the AVAST 4.8 skins or disable the sounds and then proceed to complain about an ugly UI and ugly sounds....or ads (wtf). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbaba Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 His backside :pAVAST Free has no ads, either he installed something else or downloaded AVAST from a 3rd party who packaged ads. I've said it before but common sense people, you lack it if you cannot figure out how to not install the AVAST 4.8 skins or disable the sounds and then proceed to complain about an ugly UI and ugly sounds....or ads (wtf). Avast shows you upsell adverts after 30 days of using their free version. The upsell ad has a small link at the bottom to register for a "home" key which removes the annoying red popup informing you your license has expired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrk Reviews Posted January 21, 2010 Reviews Share Posted January 21, 2010 That has never happened for me after 30 days, it only happens if your license is expired - that would mean you never bothered to re-register to get a new license key (free). AVAST does remind you that the license is about to expire and that you should re-register/get a pro license etc. In AVAST 5 it's even simpler as it's all done through the main UI itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red. Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Nice, i've been waiting for it to come out of beta for a while and the one time i don't check, they release it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hani Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 (edited) so any nod32 users tried this and thought it was better? by better i mean provides better performance or at least the same. Edited January 21, 2010 by Hani Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueFlame Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Thanks for the info, I will try this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Old Man Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 so any nod32 users tried this and thought it was better? I was a NOD32 user for a few years. It's definitely got a faster scanner than Avast and it took up less resources than the old Avast 4. If you still have a subscription to NOD32 then there's really no need to switch until it runs out. If you want something free though, and without bloat then you should give Avast 5 a go. Also, is it just me or does the Avast 5 woman's voice sound a lot like the Star Trek (TNG, DS9) computer voice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zmijutin Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 About 10 days ago I've bought Norton 2010 AV subscription :/ ... Only if I knew ... Can you tell me how much services its running and how much memory it uses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lamminium Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Normally, 2 processes (one additional process when the update runs). Take up about 40MB on average on my WinXP machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueFlame Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Anyone knows when avira 10 is going to be release? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borimol Posted January 21, 2010 Author Share Posted January 21, 2010 so any nod32 users tried this and thought it was better? by better i mean provides better performance or at least the same. I think NOD32 is much better than avast!. Maybe the "shell" of avast! is better, but NOD32 has a very good performance, and a very good defintion rate, much higher avast Avast! is a very good product, but it only can compete with the free solutions. Kaspersky, Norton or NOD32 are different solutions, with innovative technologies, that add new services like Parental control, Virtual keyboard, sandbox... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGeorge Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 His backside :pAVAST Free has no ads, either he installed something else or downloaded AVAST from a 3rd party who packaged ads. I've said it before but common sense people, you lack it if you cannot figure out how to not install the AVAST 4.8 skins or disable the sounds and then proceed to complain about an ugly UI and ugly sounds....or ads (wtf). I looked at a screenshot of Avast 5 free and it had an ad at the bottom of the UI similar to AVG's. If its not there, great but I'm still not interested in it till I see how effective it is. A pretty UI doesn't = effective security. Oh and about the backside comment....**** off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hani Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 I think NOD32 is much better than avast!. Maybe the "shell" of avast! is better, but NOD32 has a very good performance, and a very good defintion rate, much higher avastAvast! is a very good product, but it only can compete with the free solutions. Kaspersky, Norton or NOD32 are different solutions, with innovative technologies, that add new services like Parental control, Virtual keyboard, sandbox... i don't care about these additional services. i just want a decent lightweight av. nod32 isn't free, so if avast is able to match its performance, i'll make the switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrk Reviews Posted January 21, 2010 Reviews Share Posted January 21, 2010 I looked at a screenshot of Avast 5 free and it had an ad at the bottom of the UI similar to AVG's. If its not there, great but I'm still not interested in it till I see how effective it is. A pretty UI doesn't = effective security.Oh and about the backside comment....**** off! You mean this? That's hardly the ad you're making it to be, talk about exhagerration, it's not even obtrusive and it's not an ad in the standard sense anyway, just a banner explaining what the paid for version gives and a link - otherwise there'd be a huge white space there on the summary tab since it's only on the summary tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Old Man Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Anyone knows when avira 10 is going to be release? Avira really needs an interface update too. It looks horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo1911 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Am I the only one who doesn't like 3rd parties skinning window borders ? This just looks ugly. Why not let Aero take care of skinning and save yourself the hassle of creating this hideous dark skin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakers Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Been using Avast 5.0 for about 12 hours now. About to uninstall. Failed miserably at detecting sandboxed trojans, and the computer is noticeably slower under load. Back to MSE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted January 21, 2010 Subscriber² Share Posted January 21, 2010 Am I the only one who doesn't like 3rd parties skinning window borders ? This just looks ugly. Why not let Aero take care of skinning and save yourself the hassle of creating this hideous dark skin? +1 That annoys me so much.... ALL applications should be made native to fit in with Windows as much as they can THEN give the option of obscure Windows Blinds like skins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subject Delta Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 You obviously don't have many large folder structures then.This MSE bug has been in MSE since BETA, large folder browsing makes disk i/o crawl as the resident engine scans every file very slowly and uses most of the CPU %. My software folder conatins all downloaded software installers and disc images of mine so is around 21GB in size, loading it takes ages in MSE where as in AVAST it's instant. The heuristics engine and scanner behaviour allow more control in AVAST too and it's more feature packed. I never noticed that before, but you are right. I tested this by going through my own downloads folder (16 GB, 2025 files and 258 folders), and my CPU usage (consumed by the MsMpEng process) went up to 96% and my HDD activity LED came on pretty heavily. Think I will go over to the new version of Avast myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i_was_here Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 +1That annoys me so much.... ALL applications should be made native to fit in with Windows as much as they can THEN give the option of obscure Windows Blinds like skins. +1. However with skins, at least v5 looks better than v4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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