Avast Home vs McAfee Home Edition

[Lisandro]

How much teak did you do ?

teak  (tk)
n.
1.
a. A tall evergreen tree (Tectona grandis) of southeast Asia, having hard, heavy, durable yellowish-brown wood.
b. The wood of this tree, used especially for furniture and in shipbuilding.
2. A grayish yellowish brown or grayish to moderate brown.

[mouniernetwork]

sorry I meant tweak 

Al968

[Marc57]

I also have the option to use McAfee for free through my ISP. Needless to say, I'm still with Avast.

[Lisandro]

Yes, I'm tweaking Vista as a crazy guy 
Borders, size of the windows in task bar, IE and Windows Mail... as well installing tons of freewares 

[syotynam2]

I'm new to forums and probably have this in the wrong place but installed Avast Home version on my 3 month old E-Machine because the complimentary McAfee was expiring and am fed up with them and Symantec. Seem to install OK but won't allow the web page to come up or e-mail thru. Terminate Avast and all is ok. Should I totally uninstall McAfee and if so what about firewall issues Open for suggestions...

[DavidR]

You have to get rid of the anti-virus element of McAfee if you are using the suite including firewall. That would normally mean complete uninstall (add remove programs) reboot and custom install excluding the anti-virus element.

Or you could uninstall completely and choose another firewall, comodo (however you don't say what your OS is and I don't know if comodo firewall is vista compatible).

There is also a tool to remove McAfee which you should probably run after uninstalling. McAfee uninstall tool that you could run to ensure any possible remnants are removed.
http://download.mcafee.com/products/licensed/cust_support_patches/VSCleanupTool.exe

With regard to the email make sure your firewall allows ashMaiSv.exe internet access.

[Lisandro]

Should I totally uninstall McAfee

McAfee firewall is compatible with avast. You need to allow ashWebSv.exe to connect.
Also, avast.setup and ashMaiSv.exe should be allowed to connect for you to update and get email.

and if so what about firewall issues Open for suggestions...

Shortly, Comodo firewall

Personal Firewall Tests & Results. Firewall rating:
http://www.matousec.com/projects/windows-personal-firewall-analysis/results.php
About the leak tests limitations: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=29259.msg247460#msg247460

Freeware firewalls:
http://www.firewallleaktester.com/tests_overview.php
http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/firewalls.shtml

Reviews:
XP: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=27646.0
Vista: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=27647.0