Hi...
Have read almost any reply in this forum and I am quite surprised to se the passion from users and volenteers for the avast product.
I use it myself on my 7 home computers and have been very pleased with the product for a long time. I have told all my friend about this fantastic product but I have to say....
I have been infected severel times with viruses, trojans, rootkits etc. that avast did not find and I think that many users are living happely without knowing that there systemt are infected. My consern about using avast is that some of the viruses that have infected my computer are old viruses that should have been implemented. Small virus scanners as eScan and PROVX CSI can find the Win32.Bagle, Win32.Pakes and rootkit virus that avast can not.
On the other hand .... Norton, Symantec and McAfee are not doing the job better than avast so avast is still a good alternative and often better than the three.
I think that today it is quite volneroble to only use one base virus scanner. I myself use a packet of scanners to be confident that all viruses, adware, malware, rootkit, trojan are found.
I would be happy if avast would focus on some on the bad viruses that are still harming our systems. Some of which are very difficult to locate and remove from the system (like win32.bagle). As a system engineer I can do this myself but normal users are lost and have to start all over again.
Best regards and keep up the good work.