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Avast?

Dec 9, 2003 11:57AM PST

Any experience with Avast antivirus?
I am trying the Home version and so far it does a better job than AVG has been.

I tried AVG 7 but could never get the email scanner to work.

Avast did on the first try.

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Re:Avast?
Dec 9, 2003 2:21PM PST

No, I can't say "experience" - I am trying AVAST free version on my win98 as an "on demand" scanner.

Didn't have problems so far - Had only once a "false positive".

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Re:Re:Avast?
Dec 10, 2003 12:39PM PST

I tested it by sending and receiving the eicar test.

It worked well on that. But that is like standing in front
of an elephant and asking if you can see any animals.

I'm going to keep using it for awhile.