New free AV comparative test: and the winner is…
I usually don’t bother writing about individual AV tests and how great we did here and there, but this time I’ll make an exception. Malekal Morte, a very well-known (and influential) security person (tester/blogger/expert) from France recently performed a test of all leading free antivirus software products, and I’m very delighted to say that avast 5 was selected as a winner of the test.
Malekal is known for his rigorous testing methods and relentless criticism of poorly-performing products. Winning the 2010 test is even more precious considering that in the past, his attitude against avast was very reserved, and his tests were dominated by other products. But all this seems to have changed with the new avast version 5.
Malekal especially appreciated the way we bulked up the web protection module. The improvements in the avast Web and Network Shields, combined with its enhanced javascript detection engine, secured avast a smooth victory in the real-world test of protection against web-based threats. With over 85% of all infections coming through the Web these days, such improvements really make a difference for all our users.
The tester also liked the avast cleaning capabilities, mainly thanks to our unique boot-time scanning technology.
The final standing are as follows:
Gold medal: avast
Silver medal: Avira, Microsoft Security Essentials
Bronze medal: AVG, Panda cloud
Link to full review (in French): http://forum.malekal.com/comparatif-antivirus-gratuits-2010-t23535.html
Amazing…great great great
Understanding what y’all doing for the poor pc users under attack these days..
Keep on going,
Robert P Williams
Hello,
Windows 2000 and later
Working on ME? Time to update friend!
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Have Avast on all my machines-7 in all. Yesterday I tried MSE & it found 3 virues that Avast did not. Maybe you should real time test.
after the first install: had to reinstall xp as it would log in, and then log out continuously. Lost all emails, restore points, and program .exe’s. Second install: again, all desktop icons lost, all my program .exe’s were deleted from their folders. Even system restore would not load. Had to copy the restore program from another puter and put in windows\system32\restore to get it to work. Thankfully, I did not have to do another xp install. AVAST just does not work for me.
Estoy probando Avast Antivirus Free, debido a que he escuchado que es bueno, antes usaba el Nod32 con el cual no he tenido problemas, simplemente quiero ponerlo a prueba para comparar con hechos reales cual es mejor.
Hasta ahora me siento super comodo con esta nueva version de Avast =)
@Björn Lundahl
Hello again Bjorn. Sorry for your troubles. There was actually a license server issue over the weekend that stopped license keys for names with “strange” characters from being delivered. Unfortunately that is the “o” in your name. Nothing was lost–they were all queued. Glad to see you got the license and thanks for your support.
very good
Hello,
please add the files to the exception list in Avast.
Congratulation Avast team, we bought the 5.0 version because we trust in the product free for 2 years.
Tanks