Hey mark,am i stuped because i have never used avast before and i don't know about the chests size?!
Only 256mb by default?!!!
I have never seen something like that in any single AV,and I tested them a lot for years.They all have unlimited quarantine sizes.
Avira and Gdata have the better detection than Avast,that's for sure.
Accept that fact,and stop cursing people around.
I would have to say yes lacking in knowledge, if you are going to test an AV I would have thought it essential that you know something about it. As far as a default size for the chest goes, for a normal user 256MB is more than adequate enough. Try to run this kind of test and it is likely to prove inadequate, but it isn't designed for that.
How can anyone accept any fact that you present when it is clear you haven't got a clue what you are doing, you know nothing of avast so how can you purport to be testing it. You set the wrong (on-access) shield to supposedly increase sensitivity in an on-demand scan; you fail to include PUPs in your scan; you fail to increase the sensitivity in the actual Explorer scan.
Yet you have the brass neck to say it doesn't matter, well to me it doesn't matter as your test isn't worth the paper that the methodology and conduct of your test is written on, oh yes, you haven't written anything.
I don't care if in an on-demand test that was correctly setup and carried out that any other AV beat avast; what I do care about is that results presented as fact should be totally accurate and yours isn't, it is a total farce.
Sorry to be blunt, but I think you need that.