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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: varick.addison on January 31, 2020, 01:51:04 PM
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So,
After knowing the data spying scandal, what do you use as Avast replacement?
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I went for Windows Defender with HardConfigurator. But this (https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=231823.msg1534183#msg1534183 (https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=231823.msg1534183#msg1534183)) seems true as well.
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So,
After knowing the data spying scandal, what do you use as Avast replacement?
Why do you need a replacement? Avast is still one of the best AV programs available.
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What do you use as Avast replacement?
My ISP give me free F-Secure safe
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Kaspersky security cloud free is one of the best free antiviruses. No proof has been shown that they are working with the Russian goverment. Also Eugene has invited the public and researchers to review it's databases to prove they are not.... i trust kaspersky before i trust avast!!! Also kaspersky has no aggressive scare-ware tactics after performing a full system scans that prompts you to download extra garbage you don't need. bob3160 is sponsored by avast! so i take what he has to say about avast! being the best with a gain of salt... Considering he has a profile picture of him with an Avast! T shirt on. L0L... Kaspersky is also moving it's headquarters out of russia.
Being sponsored means that a company believes in you and what you're doing and wants to help. ... You have a fairly good-sized following, so they approach you and offer to sponsor you in exchange for promotion a video, a link in an article or even a social media status. - bob is sponsored by avast which means he will never say anything bad about the product no matter what they do as a company to continue his sponsorship
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Kaspersky security cloud free is one of the best free antiviruses. No proof has been shown that they are working with the Russian goverment. Also Eugene has invited the public and researchers to review it's databases to prove they are not i trust kaspersky before i trust avast!!!
I on the other hand DO NOT. :-X
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Kaspersky security cloud free is one of the best free antiviruses. No proof has been shown that they are working with the Russian goverment. Also Eugene has invited the public and researchers to review it's databases to prove they are not.... i trust kaspersky before i trust avast!!! Also kaspersky has no aggressive scare-ware tactics after performing a full system scans that prompts you to download extra garbage you don't need. bob3160 is sponsored by avast! so i take what he has to say about avast! being the best with a gain of salt... Considering he has a profile picture of him with an Avast! T shirt on. L0L... Kaspersky is also moving it's headquarters out of russia.
Being sponsored means that a company believes in you and what you're doing and wants to help. ... You have a fairly good-sized following, so they approach you and offer to sponsor you in exchange for promotion %u2013 a video, a link in an article or even a social media status. - bob is sponsored by avast which means he will never say anything bad about the product no matter what they do as a company to continue his sponsorship
Bob's profile picture is of him in a plaid shirt.
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Well that's great you're entitled to you're opinion as i am to mine... But i'd hope you dont believe every Russian propaganda you see out on the internet. Sure russia has had some shady ties but i do not believe they are with kaspersky..... I could say the same thing for Norton when they white-listed a backdoor for the FBI. when the media questioned them they had "no comment"
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Kaspersky security cloud free is one of the best free antiviruses. No proof has been shown that they are working with the Russian goverment. Also Eugene has invited the public and researchers to review it's databases to prove they are not.... i trust kaspersky before i trust avast!!! Also kaspersky has no aggressive scare-ware tactics after performing a full system scans that prompts you to download extra garbage you don't need. bob3160 is sponsored by avast! so i take what he has to say about avast! being the best with a gain of salt... Considering he has a profile picture of him with an Avast! T shirt on. L0L... Kaspersky is also moving it's headquarters out of russia.
Being sponsored means that a company believes in you and what you're doing and wants to help. ... You have a fairly good-sized following, so they approach you and offer to sponsor you in exchange for promotion %u2013 a video, a link in an article or even a social media status. - bob is sponsored by avast which means he will never say anything bad about the product no matter what they do as a company to continue his sponsorship
Bob's profile picture is of him in a plaid shirt.
Look harder http://bob3160.mystrikingly.com/
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Kaspersky security cloud free is one of the best free antiviruses. No proof has been shown that they are working with the Russian goverment. Also Eugene has invited the public and researchers to review it's databases to prove they are not.... i trust kaspersky before i trust avast!!! Also kaspersky has no aggressive scare-ware tactics after performing a full system scans that prompts you to download extra garbage you don't need. bob3160 is sponsored by avast! so i take what he has to say about avast! being the best with a gain of salt... Considering he has a profile picture of him with an Avast! T shirt on. L0L... Kaspersky is also moving it's headquarters out of russia.
Being sponsored means that a company believes in you and what you're doing and wants to help. ... You have a fairly good-sized following, so they approach you and offer to sponsor you in exchange for promotion %u2013 a video, a link in an article or even a social media status. - bob is sponsored by avast which means he will never say anything bad about the product no matter what they do as a company to continue his sponsorship
Bob's profile picture is of him in a plaid shirt.
Look harder http://bob3160.mystrikingly.com/
Not the same shirt as in his profile image, no Avast logo.
And expanding the image, does that look like a plaid (big checked) shirt ? :)
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Kaspersky security cloud free is one of the best free antiviruses. No proof has been shown that they are working with the Russian goverment. Also Eugene has invited the public and researchers to review it's databases to prove they are not.... i trust kaspersky before i trust avast!!! Also kaspersky has no aggressive scare-ware tactics after performing a full system scans that prompts you to download extra garbage you don't need. bob3160 is sponsored by avast! so i take what he has to say about avast! being the best with a gain of salt... Considering he has a profile picture of him with an Avast! T shirt on. L0L... Kaspersky is also moving it's headquarters out of russia.
Being sponsored means that a company believes in you and what you're doing and wants to help. ... You have a fairly good-sized following, so they approach you and offer to sponsor you in exchange for promotion a video, a link in an article or even a social media status. - bob is sponsored by avast which means he will never say anything bad about the product no matter what they do as a company to continue his sponsorship
Total bullshit. :(
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Total bullshit. :(
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May be , but show us a post or replay where you criticize or disagree at least, with Avast!
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Total bullshit. :(
Maybe , but show us a post or replay where you criticize or disagree at least, with Avast!
Wow, so now I'm guilty till I prove myself innocent?
I'd repeat my last comment but that's not necessary.
https://bob3160.blogspot.com/2020/01/avast-and-your-privacy.html (https://bob3160.blogspot.com/2020/01/avast-and-your-privacy.html)
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IMO some people are too critical of Bob.
He just thinks battle for privacy on internet is lost.
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IMO some people are too critical of Bob.
He just thinks battle for privacy on internet is lost.
Maybe those that think they still have some privacy left should do a simple search
on their name and/or user name. The results might surprise you. :)
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Hello Bob,
You are a member on this forum from 2004 and have 42,400 posts so far.
That is on average 8 posts per day , each and every day , work day, weekend, day or night.
If you cannot find ONE POST in 42,000 in which you disagree with Avast! in all this 16 years, maybe there is some truth in the sponsorship idea....
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Hello Bob,
You are a member on this forum from 2004 and have 42,400 posts so far.
That is on average 8 posts per day , each and every day , work day, weekend, day or night.
If you cannot find ONE POST in 42,000 in which you disagree with Avast! in all this 16 years, maybe there is some truth in the sponsorship idea....
It's funny, Bob's outright worship of avast! is something I remember seeing years and years ago. I don't recall the specific thread but there was an issue with one of the browser plugins when it first launched which was objectively a plugin issue and Bob was basically flinging himself on the grenades over and over trying to put the blame on the end user. He and his fellow cultists are one of the main reasons I never saw any value in these forums and up until last year I had been a free or paid customer since the Alwil days.
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I'm gonna go with ESET.
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Hello Bob,
You are a member on this forum from 2004 and have 42,400 posts so far.
That is on average 8 posts per day , each and every day , work day, weekend, day or night.
If you cannot find ONE POST in 42,000 in which you disagree with Avast! in all this 16 years, maybe there is some truth in the sponsorship idea....
In this country, you are innocent till proven guilty. It's time people remember that fact.
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Hi, mike , does eset provide a free av
does it scan the router/network
please
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does eset provide a free av
no
does it scan the router/network
yes --> https://help.eset.com/eis/13/en-US/?idh_page_homenetwork_protection.html (https://help.eset.com/eis/13/en-US/?idh_page_homenetwork_protection.html)
Just for your information :)
Edit: need to specify that the vulnerability scanning is just towards the router and not the entire network
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Bitdefender free is also a great program scores as high as kaspersky.
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Hello Bob,
You are a member on this forum from 2004 and have 42,400 posts so far.
That is on average 8 posts per day , each and every day , work day, weekend, day or night.
If you cannot find ONE POST in 42,000 in which you disagree with Avast! in all this 16 years, maybe there is some truth in the sponsorship idea....
In this country, you are innocent till proven guilty. It's time people remember that fact.
Ha Ha, not anymore. Trump changed all of that.
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Ha Ha, not anymore. Trump changed all of that.
Hello there fellow MT member!
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Hello Bob,
You are a member on this forum from 2004 and have 42,400 posts so far.
That is on average 8 posts per day , each and every day , work day, weekend, day or night.
If you cannot find ONE POST in 42,000 in which you disagree with Avast! in all this 16 years, maybe there is some truth in the sponsorship idea....
In this country, you are innocent till proven guilty. It's time people remember that fact.
Ha Ha, not anymore. Trump changed all of that.
I think you've got your facts backwards.
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I have tried quite a few alternatives to Avast, e.g. AVG, Avira, Panda Dome, Bit-Defender, but have always returned to Avast. It isn't perfect and some things are as irritating as hell but I like the way it works and it hardly ever causes problems. I love the Wi-Fi Inspector but mostly it is the antimalware effectiveness which keeps me in the fold. It is also very economical with memory.
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...but mostly it is the antimalware effectiveness which keeps me in the fold. It is also very economical with memory.
Windows Defender scored identical with Avast! in latest AV-TEST.
In AVComparatives , Avast has 0.7% compromised while Defender 0% compromised.
In other words, from 1000 malwares , 7 will affect your PC , if protected by Avast!
So, what "effectiveness" are you talking about????
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Windows Defender scored identical with Avast! in latest AV-TEST.
In AVComparatives , Avast has 0.7% compromised while Defender 0% compromised.
In other words, from 1000 malwares , 7 will affect your PC , if protected by Avast!
I work in the industry (although I have a marginal role). I know that antimalware tests must be evaluated with a grain of salt. It is not science we are talking about.
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There's also thing called false positives which are rather ridiculous given it's Microsoft. And I have terrible experience with performance which was always horrible with WD on systems ranging from low end to top end. Microsoft improved protection, but I have doubts about their actual real world protection despite these tests. Especially given how I've never in my life seen (anywhere) its active cloud detection or active behavior detection. You can see plenty of these from basically all antiviruses. Except WD. And WD's anti-ransomware mechanism is a freaking joke. It's been a part of a program for 2 years if not more and it's still literally entirely useless. Its whitelist is basically non existent. Which is again funny given this is Microsoft and they should have the best whitelists.
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There's also thing called false positives which are rather ridiculous given it's Microsoft.
Yes, there are FPs in Defender but I would rather want to deal with 20FPs than a ransomware missed.
On the end of the day Defender is doing a great job, and this for several years now. Moreover, the risk of incompatibility is zero, being delivered by Microsoft.
I used ESET for a many years: anti-ransomware shield, machine learning, HIPS, etc; never ever had a detection initiated by any of these shields, always signature based.Same with BD.
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There's also thing called false positives which are rather ridiculous given it's Microsoft.
Yes, there are FPs in Defender but I would rather want to deal with 20FPs than a ransomware missed.
On the end of the day Defender is doing a great job, and this for several years now. Moreover, the risk of incompatibility is zero, being delivered by Microsoft.
I used ESET for a many years: anti-ransomware shield, machine learning, HIPS, etc; never ever had a detection initiated by any of these shields, always signature based.Same with BD.
Maybe you need to take a look at the following 2 videos,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXtTgP8JkSk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXtTgP8JkSk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km4aKjA2T_c
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Where in this test is avast ? done by Se Labs
(https://malwaretips.com/attachments/1580572198204-png.233138/)
There will always be a different result .....
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Chosen Windows Defender here, One No Peformance issues experienced in my own usage that i can tell, 2 it's built into Windows, backed up by Malwarebytes Free, and Emisoft emergency kit monthly scans on each system, and nothing found at all
So far no false positive issues either
Fine tuned with Configuredefenderx64 little app on each system
Overall happy do think
For many many years used Avast free, but after this data sharing scandal, and lost trust i figured it was time to configure entire network to 1 Antivirus, Defender is my choice so far working well.
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Hi, patrick, i am win 7
and read that windows defender only protects spyware for windows 7. is that true
what about full threats for all the versions of windows , from win 7 to win 10
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Yes on Windows 7 it only protects spyware, they made Microsoft Security Essentials previously for Windows XP, Vista and 7,
They used the Windows Defender name for Windows 8, 8.1 and 10, only different is it now provides full protection in 8, 8.1 and 10 with Defender for malware/viruses, ransomware, It's not the same as Windows 7 Version, scores good on Comparatives tests
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Hi, patrick, i am win 7
and read that windows defender only protects spyware for windows 7. is that true
what about full threats for all the versions of windows , from win 7 to win 10
Hi, for Win 7 i would say try with Bitdefender antivirus free edition.
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Where in this test is avast ? done by Se Labs
(https://malwaretips.com/attachments/1580572198204-png.233138/)
There will always be a different result .....
Yes, but there are ways to see how serious the results are.
In yours, for example, how do you explain the difference between avast and AVG?
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Hi, I have given a useful link and some may find it useful
https://newsletter.askleo.com/794-what-security-software-do-you-recommend/
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Hi, I have given a useful link and some may find it useful
https://newsletter.askleo.com/794-what-security-software-do-you-recommend/ (https://newsletter.askleo.com/794-what-security-software-do-you-recommend/)
I certainly find this odd,
(https://screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1580878441637-57615.png)
He states he's using AVG which is owned by Avast but has apparently removed his endorsement of Avast.
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Those are the 2 Other Alternative Antiviruses he recommends for folks, Otherwise it's Defender recommendation what i understand from that article
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Those are the 2 Other Alternative Antiviruses he recommends for folks, Otherwise it's Defender recommendation what i understand from that article
Makes no sense if he is ok with AVG why isn't he ok with Avast?