I found their skins page & downloaded a few. I think the one called Silhouette is more my style. (Similar to Avast web page design.)
I've never noticed any slowdown whatsoever with Avast in comparison to other AVs I've tried, in fact just the opposite. It seems to run beautifully in tandem with Windows Firewall on my system.
Just my two penneth.
I'll skip all the skin talk for now.
Dennis,
Your two penneth grabbed my attention in the above statement.
I think that is what I have been waiting to "see" or "hear" or whatever.
June 25,2008 is getting to close for us AVG 7.5 die hards.
I can't use AVG 8.0 it eats up my RAM and bogs my PC.
I think Avast will be my next adventure.
davey
I'll skip all the skin talk for now.
Dennis,
Your two penneth grabbed my attention in the above statement.
I think that is what I have been waiting to "see" or "hear" or whatever.
June 25,2008 is getting to close for us AVG 7.5 die hards.
I can't use AVG 8.0 it eats up my RAM and bogs my PC.
I think Avast will be my next adventure.
davey
Avast there mate.
I use avast! Home free on my 256MB RAM WinME, 512MB RAM XP Home and my 768MB RAM XP Pro systems and work well.
I'm another happy avast! 4.8 Home Edition user , and the only changes I made were on the...
Report file page
Selected> Create report file
Selected> Overwrite existing
Troubleshooting page
Selected> Check for full screen applications (e.g. games) before displaying pop ups
I'll skip all the skin talk for now.
Dennis,
Your two penneth grabbed my attention in the above statement.
I think that is what I have been waiting to "see" or "hear" or whatever.
June 25,2008 is getting to close for us AVG 7.5 die hards.
I can't use AVG 8.0 it eats up my RAM and bogs my PC.
I think Avast will be my next adventure.
davey
That June 25, 2008 is not official. They are are still saying Dec 31, 2008 on the official thread on the AVG forums.
I have switched to AntiVir on one of my machines and couldn't be happier. Small foot print. Uses under 10 MB of RAM. Clean and simple interface and I have had no update issues at all. Updates faster than AVG 7.5 did and less intrusive when it does update. The nag screen on updates is simple to get rid of.
The nag screen on updates is simple to get rid of.
The problem in AntiVir v7 was disabling the nag screen also disabled the ability to get virus information. I don't know if the same problem exists in AntiVir v8 or not, however even if it does it's better than seeing that nag screen everyday.
The problem in AntiVir v7 was disabling the nag screen also disabled the ability to get virus information. I don't know if the same problem exists in AntiVir v8 or not, however even if it does it's better than seeing that nag screen everyday.
I will have to try that out if and when I ever get a detection to check out. There is always Google
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2282704,00.aspavast! antivirus 4.8 Home EditionREVIEW DATE: 04.10.08
by Neil J. Rubenking
When the version number of a new software release is just 0.1 higher than the old one, I expect a ho-hum incremental update. So I was pleasantly surprised to find that avast! antivirus 4.8 Home Edition adds significant functionality: It now protects against spyware, rootkits, and other forms of nonvirus malicious software. Best of all, it's free for personal use.
I finally got hold of a help file for Avast and looked it over. From what I read there are two GUI. Simple interface and Enhanced. The Simple user Interface looks very basic. The Enhanced User Interface is only available in the paid version according to the help file. So how do you control the settings for the half dozen Shields in Avast? What if you want to turn some off or tweak them? Is it possible in the free version?
I finally got hold of a help file for Avast and looked it over. From what I read there are two GUI. Simple interface and Enhanced. The Simple user Interface looks very basic. The Enhanced User Interface is only available in the paid version according to the help file. So how do you control the settings for the half dozen Shields in Avast? What if you want to turn some off or tweak them? Is it possible in the free version?
Hi Anthony
You have full control of the shield settings in the simple interface(free version) +you can turn on/off any shield. All easily configured following the help file or intuitively.
Good luck
Eli
Always been a fan of avast. They also have a rootkit detection software that is based on GMER, though it is in the beta stage.
Would be glad to change to Avast but the last time I used it on my WinXP 256MB it seemed to be terribly slow, much slower than my AVG 7.5 !
Besides it checks each and every site for every new connection I make to the internet, and on every tab it tends to slow down the connection, AVG 7.5 doesn't really slow down the internet connectivity and page downloads does it??
I had all the available options checked in Avast , dunno if that slowed it down but If any of yous have suggestions I'd much appreciate
many thanks
Windows XP on 256MB of RAM is slow regardless. Doubling the RAM to 512MB will make it feel really smooth.
I forgot to mention that I sail happily along with 512mb of ram.
One of the things you have to think about is whether or not your firewall is slowing things down. Of course this is one of those things where a definitive assessment is hard to make. My system showed some slowdown when I ran Avast with a couple of third party firewalls.
Was it the firewalls to blame? Or was it just that Avast and these firewalls didn't run very well together?
I have no idea, but by a process of trial and error, I've found that on my system, Avast and Windows Firewall just work well togther.
And may it long stay that way.
I forgot to mention that I sail happily along with 512mb of ram.
One of the things you have to think about is whether or not your firewall is slowing things down. Of course this is one of those things where a definitive assessment is hard to make. My system showed some slowdown when I ran Avast with a couple of third party firewalls.
Was it the firewalls to blame? Or was it just that Avast and these firewalls didn't run very well together?
I have no idea, but by a process of trial and error, I've found that on my system, Avast and Windows Firewall just work well togther.
And may it long stay that way.
Dennis, how many processes does Avast have running and how much RAM is it using? With AntiVIr I have 3 processes running and 11MB of RAM being used. Not as good as AVG 7.5 where I have less than 2 MB of RAM being used but a lot better tha AVG 8 which uses about 75-90 MB of RAM.
I know avast and Comodo work fine together, as my friend has it on his Vista machine and it flies. Heck, my VMs where I test these things tend to zoom along.
I've got 4 modules running as listed above, and as Confucious say "a picture is worth etc":
Not the smallest footprint, but it's worked no worse for me than the other AV's I've tried including Avira. And if you look at Opera there, I'm downloading a few things right at this moment.
Avast is the ash*.* processes.
I've got 4 modules running as listed above, and as Confucious say "a picture is worth etc":
Not the smallest footprint, but it's worked no worse for me than the other AV's I've tried including Avira. And if you look at Opera there, I'm downloading a few things right at this moment.
Avast is the ash*.* processes.
I would assume some of those Avast processes can be disabled if wanted? Are some of those the shields Avast is famous for? Even as it is there in your screen shot it's much lighter than AVG 8.
I have never seen Opera get that high in Memory use. I set the memory cache in Opera settings to 60 MB and it keeps memory use low and I notice no problems what so ever. The default setting is "automatic" and when set to that it determines how much RAM it will use based on the amount of RAM you have installed.
Actually if you want to reduce avast's memory usage further, simply go under Custom for each shield and untick what you never use.
Actually if you want to reduce avast's memory usage further, simply go under Custom for each shield and untick what you never use.
That's what I was asking. Those shields don't have to run.