I read the blog post, and.. well, both of those things are true. If all you want is anti-virus, Avast! and Avira both offer some of the best detection rates. Their paid versions use the exact same databases as the free versions (as most AV's with two versions do), so you're getting that crazy detection rate for free.[QUOTE="Makari"]
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How the **** can that be a credible guide when
1) He states that many of the best anti viruses are free (you get what you pay for ffs)
and 2) He suggests avast free edition which is utter ****!
After scrollign down and reading that i didnt bother with the rest.
Daytona_178
In the latest AV-Comparatives PDF that I saw from Feb, Avira pulled 2nd place in detections (99.7%), putting it well ahead of Avast! (98.2%), NOD32 (97.6%), Kapersky (97.1%), and especially AVG (93%).
LOL, thanks for the backup guys :) Anyhoo Eddy doesent know what he is on about, by his logic Norton & McAfee should be top of the line ^^ If its of any relevance i work as a PC technician for a living so i use a large amount of AV programs on a dialy basis...Avast is Amazing for a freee program and Antivir is also good.
If you really wanted to look after your comp from the **** that is out there on the net you wouldnt use a free program, simple as. I work in I.T and through some stupid company policy avast pro is used on all comps and servers. The ammount of times the servers and comps have had to be formatted, slowed down etc from viruses that avast has no detected is unbeliveable. Its happned around 4 times this year already costing the company a **** load of money. If thats the pro version then i dread to think about the ****ness of avast free. Plenty of better antivirus and i would personally never use that avast ****e on my pc.
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