Thread: Avast Home Edition 2000/XP/Vista

Avast Home Edition is a complete ICSA & Checkmark certified antivirus, Checkmark certified anti-spyware & anti-rootkit package. Avast includes the following components: On demand scanner with skinnable simple interface, just select what do you want to scan in which way and press the Play button; On access scanner, special providers to protect the most of available e-mail clients; Instant messaging-ICQ, Miranda; Network traffic--intrusion detection, lightweight firewall; P2P protection for Kazaa, BitTorrent; Web shield--monitors and filter all HTTP traffic; NNTP scanner--scans all Usenet Newsgroup traffic and all operations with files on PC; Boot time scanner--scans disks in the same way and in the same time as Windows CH-KDSKdoes.

Hi what about disadvantages of this product??

Regard,

Hello,

I think that apart from all pluses AVG antivirus offers, the on-access scanner should be mentioned here as it slows down computers.

Regards,

thanks you for your post, you help is appreciated