Advice Request New Avast Version 21.1.2449 - CyberCapture off by default?

[DDE_Server]

Yes, it forces Windows to resolve DNS by using Avast servers.

For advanced users like most of people on this forum, this feature it isnt that important because they know how to change DNS, to use DNSCrypt and so on, but for the average joe it is a nice security feature to avoid DNS spoofing and similar tactics.

yes especially if i am using another securing DNS such as Adgaurd which have all this option or just it is online DNS

 

[blackice]

I must say I'm pretty sold on this. Really no performance impact difference from any other low impact AV, and much more customizable in an intuitive way than WD, Bitdefender, or ESET. And their detection scores seem to be keeping on par with the other top suites. Might be a good new set and forget long term solution, but with the added ability to also customize as much or little as you want.

 

[Nightwalker]

I must say I'm pretty sold on this. Really no performance impact difference from any other low impact AV, and much more customizable in an intuitive way than WD, Bitdefender, or ESET. And their detection scores seem to be keeping on par with the other top suites. Might be a good new set and forget long term solution, but with the added ability to also customize as much or little as you want.

I can say that it is being my impression and overall experience as well, it seems to be a keeper and all thanks to @McMcbrad

 

[Nagisa]

On Avast' website it shows setting 'automatically quarantine detected threats' as to be the default. What actually comes as default is the other one. According to Mcmcbrad's explanation, it shouldn't be a problem but still I couldn't find any official and explicit information.

 

[Nightwalker]

I would like to say that I am very impressed with the support of Avast / AVG; in less than 24 hours after I reported the bug of the settings resetting to the default state after a system reboot it was fixed.

I received a hotfix that requested a reboot of my system and to my surprise the bug was totally after that.

Bravo Avast staff, well done.

Ps: I guess @McMcbrad had already reported, so it wasn't 24 hours to fix, but it is impressive anyways.

 

[AG3S]

Is Avast using the BD signatures?

 

[SeriousHoax]

Thank you for your reply.
So they are using their own signatures.

One more info. Avast and AVG used to be two different companies from the Czech Republic using their proprietary technology. But in 2016 Avast acquired AVG so all of AVG's technology has been incorporated into Avast and vice-versa. They are still sold as two different products but underneath they are the same thing. Their UI is a bit different and looks like most users here on MT prefer AVG's UI over Avast. But of course, it all comes down to personal preference.

 

[uninfected1]

The million dollar question: how cleanly does it uninstall?

This is one of the reasons, along with plenty of others, why I won't go anywhere near Avast. Caused no end of issues when I tried to uninstall despite using both the official tool and Rezjor's unofficial tool.

 

[blackice]

This is one of the reasons, along with plenty of others, why I won't go anywhere near Avast. Caused no end of issues when I tried to uninstall despite using both the official tool and Rezjor's unofficial tool.

Supposedly it’s improved. Now with all AVs there is always a chance there will be issues. I uninstalled ESET tons of times with no issues, but some people have nightmare problems.

 

[blackice]

One thing I will note: the scans are insanely fast compared to the last time I used Avast. Definitely improved!

 

[Nightwalker]

My longest deep scan was just over 20 minutes for 1.5 TB! Part of that could be new cpu and nvme, but still it also scanned photos on my backup external drive.

My first deep scan took exactly 20 minutes for almost 800 GB of data (NVMe + HDD 7200), pretty damn fast in my book.

 

[Digmor Crusher]

Well I decided to give Avast a try, and AVG too ,cause I'm bored. Actually I used Avast many years ago, was the first AV I used. Used Rollback RX Pro for this. My only comment is, wow, they sure try to upsell you a lot of useless crap, even did a custom install and they still try to get you. Now this isn't a comment on how effective it is, just on how they are the used car salesmen of AV's. AVG is just a clone of Avast, basically whats the point?? Now, my next experiment, Kaspersky free.

Edit: Tried Kaspersky, Bitdefender, and Avira as well, all free versions, quick 10 minute test drives, the only one I might consider ever using is Kaspersky. For now Defender with Configure Defender is good enough.

 

[fabiobr]

I tried to run Cloudcar from AMTSO and my Internet was off, then Avast behavior blocker comes into action.

(After bypassing Windows SmartScreen notification and executing).

 

[blackice]

Uninstalled AVG with my gaming rig. Leaving it on the laptop. The new AMD chipset drivers don’t seem to agree with it or something. Losing 8ish% performance in Time Spy CPU benchmark. That’s all that’s changed recently...saw some slightly lower performance in games and got curious. Who knows, maybe it’s something else I installed. But as soon as WD was back on all is back to normal.