Battle Emsisoft Anti-Malware vs Avast premium

[Islam Gamal]

Hi guys,
I need a little help here. I can´t decide which one do i pick so what do you think is the best choice for protection ?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Vincent Valentine]

Emsisoft is a trustworthy company compare to avast. Avast was caught selling user data a while ago.
The feature avast give with its premium version won't make more secure than what it gives with its free version, so I will use it's free version if I have to.

 

[entropism]

Anyone know what the EDU discount for Emsisoft is? The only thing I can find online is "Send us authentication that you qualify and we'll give you a discount code".

 

[forgottenuser79643]

Anyone know what the EDU discount for Emsisoft is? The only thing I can find online is "Send us authentication that you qualify and we'll give you a discount code".

From what I know, you need to send them an email or a support ticket.

Yes. We support education wherever we can. Therefore we’re offering special discount prices for students, teachers, schools, universities and charities. Please send an authentication that confirms that you are eligible for the discount to edu@emsisoft.com, then you will receive an access code, which allows you to order educational licenses with the discount.

Emsisoft Help

support.emsisoft.com

Mind you this support thread is from 2017, so there is a chance it might deviate. The best option is to ask them about it to the email they provided for such inquiries.

 

[entropism]

Right, which is what I found. I was trying to find out if anyone knew what the discount was, so I can figure out if it's worth the effort of emailing them.

 

[FireHammer]

Hi, I have voted for Emsisoft, I do not use either of the 2 software, but I have had Avast Premium with all the Avast Premium software that goes with it for 10 months before I switched to BTS & I am not impressed, I would defiantly go for Emsisoft if I only had these options, Avast AV is good enough I suppose but all the additional software is not worth the large sum of money IMHO.

 

[spaceoctopus]

I chose Avast, but i like Emsisoft too.
Avast is slightly better for me. It has excellent behavioral detection combined with the useful Hardened Modes.Added to that you get features to enchance your protection, to name a few, Sandboxing, Ransomware Shield, protection for your passwords in your browser, firewall.

Despite that Avast is a bigger suite, it feels lighter than Emsisoft. During Signature updates Emsisoft can take huge amount of Ram and the behavioral protection can sometimes be confusing when it is triggered by a safe program, during an update, for example.

 

[Nevi]

I voted for Emsi, but I have a feeling Avast would be a good antivirus too.

 

[SamBill]

Avast works good for me. There's a 3 month trial in the giveaway section, if you want you can try it out and see. It runs light and silent. I like their update strategy, doesn't cause unnecessary spikes in CPU and memory usage.

Just go to settings and deselect the privacy options, you'll no longer receive recommendations and you're data won't be processed by any analytics to offer ads.

 

[CyberDevil]

I would say that Emsisoft is much better as a company, but Avast is better as a product. Although for most users Emsisoft one of the best options, I am under a lot of stress from not being able to configure and tweak antivirus.

 

[Islam Gamal]

I decided to go with Emsisoft 2 months ago and i like it alot. It is very light on my system. the scan is so fast. The UI is well designed and so responsive and the most important thing i can tweak it to notify me about any threat to make a decision.

 

[koloveli]

emsisoft is better, if compared with avast...

 

[Atlas147]

Personally I think that Emsisoft has the better product. It looks more professional and doesn't use fear mongering tactics to get you to subscribe to the more expensive products. Honestly if you need protection, Avast's free protection would probably suffice. But if you want to spend a little extra, emsisoft's BB and commitment to privacy is definitely something that stands out