I bought avast4.8 professional and found it very good antivirus what u think?

@umer5222 (724)
Cyprus
November 25, 2009 12:55pm CST
I bought it 39.9$ online in which i got key W9654686R8800U1106-6L51HC20 and now working and getting daily updates. I want to ask Will it worth for me in future or i bought crappy anti-virus?? what you say about this product??
2 responses
paleorainy
@paleorainy (630)
• Italy
25 Nov 09
avast
I use avast, but the free version. It is good for me, before I have used: McAfee - good but it takes forever to update Norton - I had 43 viruses on my laptop thanks to norton AVG - good and free but many times it'd fail to update and lately Avast, with which I'm really well. If it keep working I'm not going to change that again.
Just an Ordinary Owl?
@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
25 Nov 09
AVG is also good but has recently been getting slightly lower ratings than Avast. I agree about the updates! Very often it gives an error on the automatic updates but when you then go to update manually, there are no problems. Norton is quite reliable but a memory and resource hog. I'd be interested to know what the 'viruses' were that you claim Norton was unable to detect. Many AV products are over enthusiastic and report 'false positives' - that is, they report code that they can't understand as a 'virus'. Usually the name they give contains the word 'Generic'. If you had errors from another AV product that reported a 'Generic Trojan', it's unlikely that it was a real threat.
Just an Ordinary Owl?
@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
25 Nov 09
I used to use the free version of AVG for many years but recently I read a review that gave Avast slightly better ratings so I changed to the free version of that. I have been very pleased with it so far. It updates almost daily and doesn't keep telling me that I ought to buy the paid version. It has given me a couple or warnings recently about unsafe websites and has prevented me from downloading what it said were trojans. I rarely visit 'dangerous' sites but I was glad of the warnings. On the whole I'm very happy with it. You should NOT have put your key in the discussion, by the way. It's unlikely that it will work for anyone else (since it is usually made for a particular username and/or computer ID) but it is actually a breach of their Terms to share it.