Avast not found

[sears54]

When I run zonealarm or the free online scanner Symantec they say they do not see Avast anti virus scanner on this machine...Why is that? I was just wondering why this happens..Please advise me on what the problem is?

[RejZoR]

ZoneAlarm was "sold" to McAfee and Norton. Only these two get recognized by the latest ZA firewall. All others are not (even Pc-cillin,NOD32,F-Secure or avast! are not recognized.

Symantecs Online Security Check is the same nasty thing. It tries to convience you that your current installed antivirus is not really a antivirus so you'd purchase their *cough* crappy *cough* Norton Antivirus. My recommendation? Stick with avast!. Its way better than Norton. Also if you wan't to check your PC with on-line antivirus,i recommend HouseCall or Command On Demand (both can be found on my page) instead of Norton.

[CharleyO]

Sears54 - my advice is to stay away from anything McAfee, Norton (Symantec), or Panda ... since Panda does not encrypt their files correctly.      

I knew ZoneAlarm was sold to another company but do not know if it was anything to do with Norton & McAfee. The ZoneAlarm website mentions another company.          

Maybe RejZoR has information that wasn't included on ZoneAlarm website or maybe the information has changed since I was there a couple of weeks ago.      

[RejZoR]

Ok,i'll ask around at Zonelabs on which scan engine is used in ZoneAlarm with Antivirus

[zappafan]

As long as the seperate programs work, I think all is alright.
Dont worry.
This is better than just nothing.
The e-mail stuff in ZA is some "new" stuff. So dont bother.

[sears54]