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Title: Portable avast! by ALWIL Software Review....
Post by: drhayden1 on May 18, 2007, 10:13:40 PM
http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/windows/Portable-avast-Review-54885.shtml
Title: Re: Portable avast! by ALWIL Software Review....
Post by: CharleyO on May 19, 2007, 06:17:06 AM
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Nice review!    :)


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Title: Re: Portable avast! by ALWIL Software Review....
Post by: DavidR on May 19, 2007, 03:36:57 PM
Yes a nice review, shame about this comment though.

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The "small" version of avast! is just as powerful as its desktop correspondent. There is no adware or spyware scan engine available as the product is limited to catching viruses running loose on your portable drive and disturbing your activity.

The adware and spyware signatures continue to grow at a pace, so should afford limited anti-adware/spyware protection but not as a dedicated anti-adware/spyware application would.
Title: Re: Portable avast! by ALWIL Software Review....
Post by: Lisandro on May 19, 2007, 11:23:54 PM
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The "small" version of avast! is just as powerful as its desktop correspondent. There is no adware or spyware scan engine available as the product is limited to catching viruses running loose on your portable drive and disturbing your activity.
Another reason to add an antispyware/antiadware module into avast and not only signatures.
Besides, this module could monitor the Windows Registry... Hope they add this in avast 5 version.