App Review Avast Internet Security 2016 (Tweaked Settings) Prevention and Detection Test (safe1st)

[safe1st]

Thank you and have a good weekend everyone!

 

[Crystal_Lake_Camper]

avast still has work to do , bad news for the fanboys thanks for the excellent video

 

[Kate_L]

Looks like they didn't fix the HIPS / DeepScreen. They also need to do something with the default-allow.

 

[Deleted Member 333v73x]

I'm not an Avast! fanboy (anymore ) so I will be honest:

1. DeepScreen has improved but STILL needs to be better
2. Signature wise they are not very good and miss well-known malicious files
3. HIPS is useless
4. Why does it cost so much?!
5. Almost all members of their forums are fanboys
6. Useless customer service asking you to restart etc...
7. Over 1GB which is too much for an AV

I could go on...

 

[Mihir :-)]

HIPS is Useless.But Evo-gen is save Avast!.

 

[shukla44]

I have used avast in the past before using avg so i can see they have improved but not so much with the ever-evolving malware families (unlike AVG, which is improving greatly).

I was using the free version, so i couldn't complain much, but i always found it to use too much memory that sometimes it made my windows crawl.

Still, with all this aside, good test, avast performance was between medium - medium high, which is good but not great.

Thanks for video.

 

[TheMalwareMaster]

Those nasty chinese adwares..

 

[Noxx]

I won't touch AVAST anymore for the simple reason that it's a BLOAT MACHINE (at least, nowadays). See Tornado's post. Over 1GB? LOL.

 

[Mihir :-)]

7.Over 1GB which is too much for an AV-What is this?

 

[OokamiCreed]

7.Over 1GB which is too much for an AV-What is this?

Avast takes up a lot of disk space.

 

[Mihir :-)]

Yes.But it decreased to 500-400MB each time.not 1GB in my case