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blue_fyre

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Avast compatibility
« on: June 04, 2012, 03:26:58 AM »
 I have not seen the compatibility option in the installer since the beta. However, I am reading in some threads about compatibility, they seem to say avast is now able to install along side other products like Kaspersky and Avira. Am I right? I understand the disadvantages of having two but will I be able to install avast with Kaspersky?

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Re: Avast compatibility
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2012, 03:56:03 AM »
It's there, with the customized installation.
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Re: Avast compatibility
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2012, 05:04:49 AM »
compatibility option is only available when avast detects that u have another antivirus pre-installed on ur system (if it is a clean system, no such option is provided, with other av preinstalled, the option is located below the 'express install' option).

edit: tried the compatibility mode on a VM, configuration is avg as primary av and avast as secondary av. the real-time shield installed in avast is the script shield.

u could also use avast as an on-demand scanner/boot-time scanner.

under additional protection, webrep and remote assistance is available. autosandbox is shown there too, however, i doubt it is available as it is dependent on real-time file system shield, which is not present.
« Last Edit: June 04, 2012, 05:19:24 AM by AntiVirusASeT »

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Re: Avast compatibility
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2012, 03:03:51 AM »
compatibility option is only available when avast detects that u have another antivirus pre-installed on ur system (if it is a clean system, no such option is provided, with other av preinstalled, the option is located below the 'express install' option).
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Re: Avast compatibility
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2012, 05:29:04 AM »
refer to the screenshots. if i miss anything please tell me  :)
« Last Edit: June 05, 2012, 05:48:27 AM by AntiVirusASeT »

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Re: Avast compatibility
« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2012, 07:13:32 AM »
 I guess avast is not recognizing avira. I was curious so I installed avira and then ran avast setup. I got a screen that looks exactly like the second screenshot.