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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Topic started by: Sutieday on May 21, 2009, 05:34:14 AM

Title: Avast v.s. Adware
Post by: Sutieday on May 21, 2009, 05:34:14 AM

Avast needs to detect more adware. There needs to be web shield improvements to help detection. It was proven at www.youtube.com/mrizos

Title: Re: Avast v.s. Adware
Post by: Bluesman on May 21, 2009, 12:15:25 PM

Quote from: Sutieday on May 21, 2009, 05:34:14 AM

Avast needs to detect more adware.

I am sure that the goal for avast from the alwil-guys is to be better and better, and to detect more and more stuff :)

Title: Re: Avast v.s. Adware
Post by: Tarq57 on May 21, 2009, 02:02:19 PM

Actually if you look at most reputable testing sites Avast detection rates are considered rather good.
mrizos' youtube channel does offer some interesting thoughts, but hardly represents proof.
Always has been a problem running these sorts of tests, because there are thousands of new malware created almost on a daily basis. By the time a test has been compiled, performed, and released, the landscape has changed.