Author Topic: Avast 4.8 free edition not recognized by Symantec security scan  (Read 2481 times)

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After running a free Symantec scan, it tells me no virus protection is there,, what am I missing??? Sorry if this was answered elsewhere, didn't find it, thanks
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Re: Avast 4.8 free edition not recognized by Symantec security scan
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2008, 04:50:00 PM »
I'm hardly surprised that Symantec is saying you don't have protection after all they are trying to sell products.

Zone Alarm to also doesn't detect avast as it too has a suite with an av that they are trying to sell.

Base your decisions on if avast is running and working on your system rather than the comment of a competitor AV, after al what would an on-line scanner be doing telling you you haven't got protection, that isn't what you asked it to do.

There are many on-line scanners and many better than symantec at that IMHO. On-line Virus Scanners and other useful Links Security-Ops.eu.tt
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Re: Avast 4.8 free edition not recognized by Symantec security scan
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2008, 06:05:14 PM »
Thanks for the response. Seems to me that everything was fine regardless of what I was being told, couldn't find anything untoward.. thanks again.

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Re: Avast 4.8 free edition not recognized by Symantec security scan
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2008, 06:31:13 PM »
No problem, glad I could help.

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