avast! vs Norton?

[big_gie]

Hi,

I'm actually using Norton Antivirus 2004 and when I browse explorer to a folder that contains a file with a virus, I get alerted. I wanted to try avast as norton seems to be a bit bloated... But with avast, I don't get an error until I double click the file, witch then tell me I have a virus...

Is avast reacting the same with you? If so, isn't norton more secure for this??? I think I wont flush norton for now...

 

[banzibaby]

It depends on how U have Avast setup, ie the Standard Shield provider, i always put a certain extention set in the Scan files on open & create/modify

COM,EXE,DLL,SYS,SCR,OV?,VXD,386,BIN,BAT,CMD,DO?,XL?, PP?,HT*,HLP,CH?,{*},ASP,CLA*,CPL,CSS,INF,JS*,LNK,MS?,OCX,PDF,PIF,PO?, PRC,RTF,SHS,VB?,VSD,WS?,SWF,AD?,ASX,BAS,CRT,INS,ISP, MDB,MDE,PCD,PRF,REG,SCF,SCT,SHB,URL,EML,NWS,ZIP,RAR

Avast has never let me down so far & i feel it is a much better proggy than Nortons which is bloated & clogs up the registry

There does seem to be a small bug with the rar unpacker in Avast, the team do know about it, before it would scan a rar file even if U just selected it (highlighted it), now U can actually open the file with no warning untill U try to extract, then it warns U, other than that it is simply the best A/V out there

Also a some viruses & trojans will actually target Nortons & disable it, havent heard of that happening with Avast

BaNzI

 

[big_gie]

Thanks Banzi! I tough I had to let down avast...

I just told it to "Scan created/modified files: All files" instead of "only files with selected extensions"...

Why this isn't default??

 

[roadworker]

Why this isn't default??

Because it slows down a system when scanning.....most virusscanners use "only files with selected extensions" as default.....even Norton..
Lots of file extentions are immune for virusses by nature,leaving those out of a scan,speeds things up.

 

[big_gie]

haaaaaa... good to know thanks! I'll try with all extensions and if my system degrades, I'll check the extensions...

tanks!