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thetechfreak
Legend Never Ends
Housecall is an online antivirus which helps to clean deeply infected PC's. It is NOT a replacement for Real time protection AV's like Norton,etc
tkin
Back to school!!
AntiVirus Name: Avast Free Antivirus V6
Free or Paid: Free, Registration required, takes 30 secs and can be done from antivirus control panel, no nagging for paid version, no email verification needed, you can registered using anything, even false info.
Price in INR [If Paid]: N.A
Protection Type:: Virus, trojan, keylogger, rootkit detection, network checking for malicious entry, redirects port 80 requests(browsing) to analyze websites and block malicious websites and malicious scripts present in webpages.
Resource Consumption: Virtually nil, never faced slow down even with my HP 530 laptop, consuming just 5MB ram running in background, updates are fetched 2-3 times everyday, all updates(virus definitions) are less than few hundred KBs every time, useful for limited bandwidth users like me.
Ratings out of 5.
User Friendly: 4.8/5
Detection Rate: 4.8/5(for me, till today it had missed only 2 files, and no. of false positives are virtually nil scanning over plenty of "Modified" exes)
Performance: 5/5
Price: 5/5
Overall: 4.9/5
Recommend to Use: Highly recommended.
Comments: You need to use a firewall alongside this, I suggest comodo firewall(no defense+, just firewall).
FYI I had never been infected ever as long as I had been using me pc and I do visit "Sharing" websites, its probably due to my browsing habit buy anyway avast 6.0 is highly recommended by me.
Free or Paid: Free, Registration required, takes 30 secs and can be done from antivirus control panel, no nagging for paid version, no email verification needed, you can registered using anything, even false info.
Price in INR [If Paid]: N.A
Protection Type:: Virus, trojan, keylogger, rootkit detection, network checking for malicious entry, redirects port 80 requests(browsing) to analyze websites and block malicious websites and malicious scripts present in webpages.
Resource Consumption: Virtually nil, never faced slow down even with my HP 530 laptop, consuming just 5MB ram running in background, updates are fetched 2-3 times everyday, all updates(virus definitions) are less than few hundred KBs every time, useful for limited bandwidth users like me.
Ratings out of 5.
User Friendly: 4.8/5
Detection Rate: 4.8/5(for me, till today it had missed only 2 files, and no. of false positives are virtually nil scanning over plenty of "Modified" exes)
Performance: 5/5
Price: 5/5
Overall: 4.9/5
Recommend to Use: Highly recommended.
Comments: You need to use a firewall alongside this, I suggest comodo firewall(no defense+, just firewall).
FYI I had never been infected ever as long as I had been using me pc and I do visit "Sharing" websites, its probably due to my browsing habit buy anyway avast 6.0 is highly recommended by me.
TheMost
Simply.. Evolution !!
MatchBoxx
the m0nk who sold his PC!
ever used Microsoft Security Essentials???
tkin
Back to school!!
Never, avast doing fine for me.
coderunknown
Retired Forum Mod
emsisoft & avast doesn't conflict?
please post a short review of the new Spybot as you did with Avast. i haven't it yet.
TheMost
Simply.. Evolution !!
Essentinals v1 was performance A+
But v2 is RocKs enough in malware shooting but takes a pretty 60-70MB ...
tkin
Back to school!!
Hmm, avast takes 5-10mb, any other av that takes that low?
TheMost
Simply.. Evolution !!
No, As far as i know avast is the only decent AV which occupies that low memory ( The reason i left that was
1) It has a web shield which acts like a proxy and scans behind while browsing - taking almost 50% of network making it a network hog !
2) Misses an enough amount f spyware ( at least that can be overcome by scanning occasionally with emsisoft anti-malware -free )
The next AV from my choice in norton internet security 2011 occupies around 13MB-16MB ( overall protection + very very good performer )
gameranand
Living to Play
The main AV process is hidden and is not shown directly. Considering this Avira takes about 2MB.tkin said:
skeletor
Chosen of the Omnissiah
NOD32.