Most of them failed, especially Kapsersky and Nod32, abandoning your computer completely to all infections once you don’t pay anything to their money-hungry developers during their expirations.

Tried Avast! and had been stuck to it. My brother likes Avast! too but never tried to install the professional version of it or even the home edition to his gaming PC since it continuously kept stopping some games popping out its warnings especially with internet online games.

However, for me who’s not a gamer at all. Avast! is okay. It’s what I have recommended to all my friends.

I just so happened to land on this blog because I am rethinking for other alternative like switching back to AVG. My door is still open for options and I will hop from several websites and blogs to see if I really need to stick with the Avast! This anti-virus had been in service for me for the past 4 years now. Had minor problems like an adware somehow successfuly penetrated in my system. Still understandable though, all anti-viruses have its limitations and certain weaknesses as well. And choosing the one with the least if such limitations would be the best. So far for me, it’s still Avast! Update you all just in case there’s one better than Avast! soon.

Avast hasn’t detected any viruses and Spybot detected spyware. So I assume I’m doing a good job…

Overall I prefer Avast for number of features and protection.

avast! has anti-spyware, anti-trojan, anti-trojan horse, anti-virus, anti-rootkit, anti-adware, and other anti-malware protection. AVG Free? It doesn’t begin to compare. Plus I tried AVG Free before and it was quite annoying to see a “Warning – get full protection!” advertisement message whenever I had the AVG Free user interface open. It could mislead some people in to thinking that AVG Free isn’t fully protecting them. The irony is, whether AVG intended this or not, is that this is actually TRUE! AVG Free is NOT full protection!

If you have AVG Free installed on one or more of your computer, please, for the benefit or your computer’s health, get rid of it A.S.A.P. and replace it with avast! Home Edition. I assure you you’ll be doing the right thing. Anti-rootkit and all of the other protection avast! provides is what people need in this day and age, where infections can be found around all sorts of twists and turns on the internet. Rootkits are much more common now than 5 years ago. I should know, just under a quarter of randomly tested files on the LimeWire P2P network were infected with rootkits. Most of them contained trojan horses or adware. Some were viruses and one file included spyware. Anyway, the point is, simply put, avast! is THE best protection you can get. Especially considering its oh-so-large compatibility with operating systems and applications. avast! is also very lightweight. It updates on a regular basis, and the Home Edition has an unbeatable price for unbeatable protection: FREE!

This blog post is also very good. Thank you for sharing your views on AVG and avast!, too! Lots of interesting comments too.

If you want help with anything avast! related (Install, setting up etcetera.) OR computers in general, please don’t hesitate to contact me via E.mail at: @hotmail.co.uk">naean@hotmail.co.uk.

Stay safe out there! Regards,
> Naean.

You say AVG has been around for a long time, which is true, except you apparently don’t know that Avast! has been around for three years longer than that.