Avast WEBforum
Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: loungehake on January 20, 2022, 10:56:20 AM
-
For the best part of twenty years, I have from time to time tried alternatives to Avast. This time it was Kaspersky Security Cloud free. I turned to it because I have an old Toshiba Satellite Pro P200 laptop which has a superb display screen and runs Windows 10 21H2 passably. Kaspersky has a repution for being light on resources and so it seemed a good bet. Not a bit of it! Avast free showed it a clean pair of heels. With Avast, the Patch Tuesday updates took a little over half the time taken with Kaspersky.
It seems that I absolutely cannot find a decent alternative to Avast, popups, nags and all. C'est la vie I suppose.
-
Welcome back. 8)
-
Nice to be back Asyn. It feels like I have returned home. Actually I was never away but I had to give Kaspersky Security Cloud a try and there was some stuff that I liked. However the support was not good. To have access to the forum seems to require that I use the paid for version. I had gotten the idea that Cloud was what Panda Security used but Kaspersky virus definitions must be downloaded to a local on-device database. There is no streaming update which is a downer. Avast is lighter on resources than Kasperky Security Cloud. It uses a similar amount ofmemory but is less hungry for processor power. I cannot express an opinion on a comparison between Kasperky Security Cloud and Avast Behaviour Shield and Anti-exploit. All that I can say is that Kaspersky hates Malwarebytes Anti-exploit and wants to uninstall it. I guess that there are incompatibilities. MBAE and Avast do not seem to fight each other.
I hope that Avast continues in the form that I am using. I have tried Avast One and consider that it is far from fully developed. For instance, I found the GUI an absolute maze in which I went round and round. Avast One has a larger memory requirement than current Avast by about 25% and it makes the host system feel less responsive. I have total faith in the Avast that I am accustomed to using. My non-techie user friends can use it long term without need of my support. Avast keeps itself in good shape. It is very robust and effective and I cannot imagine life without it.