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Safe Avast with Ad aware free antivirus?
« on: August 09, 2012, 03:06:19 PM »
I have installed avast and ad aware. Will this cause any problems? What i must do?
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Re: Safe Avast with Ad aware free antivirus?
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2012, 06:27:37 PM »
I have installed avast and ad aware. Will this cause any problems? What i must do?
No problems but, adaware is old and outdated technology. I would suggest uninstalling it and replacing it
with Malwarebytes.
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Re: Safe Avast with Ad aware free antivirus?
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2012, 06:40:21 PM »
Since the subject mentions Ad aware free antivirus, then generally the answer would be NO.

Later versions of AdAware may have an antivirus module, but we don't exactly what version of AdAware you have, if it includes an antivirus module then a custom install and not installing that module would be the only way to go.

That said, I too don't feel that AdAware is anyway near what it was years ago in comparison to its competitors.
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Re: Safe Avast with Ad aware free antivirus?
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2012, 06:55:33 PM »
@Sizzerb: You are advised to only use 1 realtime AV at the same time. Decide which one you want to keep and uninstall the other one. My vote goes to keeping avast!. :D

@Bob3160: Actually the new Ad-Aware product appears to be using the Vipre engine so detection should be on par i guess. They did extremely well in the latest VB RAP test:

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/rap-index.xml

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Re: Safe Avast with Ad aware free antivirus?
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2012, 07:00:09 PM »
@ Mike,
My remarks where strictly related to adaware not the AV at all.
I read his post not the topic so didn't catch what David obviously did.
Only one resident AV at a time and before you install a new one, you need to fully remove the old one.  :)
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Re: Safe Avast with Ad aware free antivirus?
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2012, 01:46:33 PM »
That said, I too don't feel that AdAware is anyway near what it was years ago in comparison to its competitors.
This has changed a lot lately. See comparative tests and you'll see how they improve...
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Re: Safe Avast with Ad aware free antivirus?
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2012, 02:58:48 PM »
Changed or not with an antivirus module, it is clearly not compatible unless the AV module isn't installed. That then only leaves their normal AdAware adware stuff and I still feel MBAM the better option.
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Re: Safe Avast with Ad aware free antivirus?
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2012, 07:30:26 PM »
Changed or not with an antivirus module, it is clearly not compatible unless the AV module isn't installed. That then only leaves their normal AdAware adware stuff and I still feel MBAM the better option.
Sure. Just that the information of weakness is not precise nowadays.
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Re: Safe Avast with Ad aware free antivirus?
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2012, 03:11:58 PM »
Changed or not with an antivirus module, it is clearly not compatible unless the AV module isn't installed. That then only leaves their normal AdAware adware stuff and I still feel MBAM the better option.
Sure. Just that the information of weakness is not precise nowadays.
Not as good as MBAM (One of it's competitors. :) )
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Re: Safe Avast with Ad aware free antivirus?
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2012, 03:22:59 PM »
Bob they don't offer a standalone version of their anti-spyware anymore, they are fully commited to their AV suits it would appear. Instead of comparing to MBAM it would make more sense to compare with avast!. Ad-Aware Free Antivirus+ is a direct competitor to avast! Free...

http://www.lavasoft.com/free_download/trial/

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Re: Safe Avast with Ad aware free antivirus?
« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2012, 03:52:12 PM »
Bob they don't offer a standalone version of their anti-spyware anymore, they are fully commited to their AV suits it would appear. Instead of comparing to MBAM it would make more sense to compare with avast!. Ad-Aware Free Antivirus+ is a direct competitor to avast! Free...

http://www.lavasoft.com/free_download/trial/

June test from AV-TEST:
http://www.av-test.org/no_cache/en/tests/test-reports/?tx_avtestreports_pi1%5Breport_no%5D=121847

avast!:
http://www.av-test.org/no_cache/en/tests/test-reports/?tx_avtestreports_pi1%5Breport_no%5D=121871


All the more reason to remove this from your system since it's installation actually installed a second AV to your computer
which, as we all know, is NEVER a good move.  MBAM is still the recommended program for malware removal. :)
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Re: Safe Avast with Ad aware free antivirus?
« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2012, 04:16:14 PM »
Beware, old versions of Ad-aware with Antivirus Free had nasty driver bug that caused BSOD's when installing other security software. It has been fixed in the very latest version!
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