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Topic: Anyone recommend Avast?

Keypek Posts: 3,908 Registered: Sep 12, '06 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 3,904 User ID: 1,170,534	Subject: Anyone recommend Avast?
	Just curious if it is as good as I hear it is for free? I hate Norton but got it free and is almost up. I'd rather never touch anything by symantec ever again so just curious about avast since I hear people mention it a lot. -----signature----- SWTOR: ICE Breaker altoholic Rift, Aion, STO, Warhammer, UO: Retired DAOC: 12L0+ RRs of various daoc junk retired
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Greybear1andonly Posts: ???? Registered: ???? Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 0 User ID: 0	Subject: Anyone recommend Avast?
	I liked AVAST before this latest version they have. Yes, it is free...they require that you REGISTER it to get the key, which is also free, and you have to REGISTER it each year. Lately I have been pushing the free MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS. -----signature-----
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G0d Posts: 1,607 Registered: Aug 20, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 1,585 User ID: 333,736	Subject: Anyone recommend Avast?
	ya, security essentials is all I use as well. non-invasive, no bloatware, and works great. and its free. don't have to sign up for nada. -----signature----- - Only when you've lost everything, are you free to do anything. Science flys us to the Moon. Religion flys us into buildings.
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Keypek Posts: 3,908 Registered: Sep 12, '06 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 3,904 User ID: 1,170,534	Subject: Anyone recommend Avast?
	Hmm, will try out the essentials. Been using an extra copy of norton from a buddy who buys the family pack every year for two computers so he always gives me the third one. And I just take it and act grateful but it is really causing me issues since i upgraded to win7 a couple weeks ago. Even getting the dreaded BSOD which miraculously disappears when I remove all symantec stuff off my computer. But I really don't understand why anyone pays for this stuff anymore regardless. Unless there is some advantage I don't know about that makes the constant bugs and issues norton brings worth it. I'm definitely not an expert on it though. Thanks for the replies! -----signature----- SWTOR: ICE Breaker altoholic Rift, Aion, STO, Warhammer, UO: Retired DAOC: 12L0+ RRs of various daoc junk retired
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Greybear1andonly Posts: ???? Registered: ???? Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 0 User ID: 0	Subject: Anyone recommend Avast?
	Its not a matter of what you truely need, its a matter of what others can convince you that you need. The Free ones, like AVAST generally have a pay version also. The free version is thier, umm, ""BETA"" for a lack of a better word. What they learn using it is applied to their retail version, is the way I understand it. You generally get no support and no guarantees. Nortons has been getting worse for a long time. They are to slow to react to bad patches that leave users unable to access the internet or work with trends like Completely uninstalling when you tell it to. -----signature-----
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Seffrid Title: Ancient One Posts: 13,210 Registered: Dec 21, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 12,930 User ID: 567,791	Subject: Anyone recommend Avast?
	I used Avast for quite a long time (since giving up on AVG) up until the beginning of the year when I took the opportunity of starting afresh with the hard disks on my two machines to review my AV software. I was finding that both Avast and Spyware Doctor which I used purely for malware were getting very bloated, slowing things down, and were also both prone to false positives. Following the usual consultations here (of course!), and with advice from my local computer engineer, I settled on Microsoft Security Essentials for constant AV protection coupled with the free version of Malwarebytes for manual malware protection. I've been very happy with both thus far. I haven't used Norton for many years, and in those days it had a terrible reputation, but it has improved in recent years as I understand it and my son had it pre-installed on his machine and has stuck with it quite happily ever since. My computer engineer's colleague also recommends it, but stresses it's just the basic AV software he favours rather than all the extra stuff Norton offer as well. -----signature----- (none)
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Keypek Posts: 3,908 Registered: Sep 12, '06 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 3,904 User ID: 1,170,534	Subject: Anyone recommend Avast?
	Thanks for the replies all. Giving the MS security essentials and malwarebytes combo a spin. So far no more BSOD problems since i dumped norton and picked these up instead lol. -----signature----- SWTOR: ICE Breaker altoholic Rift, Aion, STO, Warhammer, UO: Retired DAOC: 12L0+ RRs of various daoc junk retired
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Sprawl-zero1eye- Title: IGN Vault Staff Reziztance iz Futile Posts: 53,263 Registered: Jun 28, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 52,657 User ID: 692,733	Subject: Anyone recommend Avast?
	Security Essentials is what you need. Besides, even if you don't like it, you will be using it come Windows 8. -----signature----- Mirkwood MUD, OneEye IvoryFang, Lord of the VampireZ (Retired) AC Frostfell, Clan Z - Lvl 239 Grief Dagger (Retired) WoW Lightbringer Alliance, Z Guild - Lvl 85 Combat Rogue (Retired) Making iOS Apps these days at http://zsprawl.com/iOS
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