What is Avast 5.00 like these days ?

[digmen1]

Hi Guys
I have an older laptop with XP on it.
I want to install Avast 5.00
What is 5.00 like has it gone bloated like AVG did ?

I liked Avast 4.8

[anon]

What is 5.00 like has it gone bloated like AVG did ?

I couldn't tell you, I stopped using Avast long ago. However, if you're looking for a light antivirus, try NOD32 2.7 plus the fix to get a virtually infinite amount of trial days with full updates.

[khalood]

i like to use eset smart it easy to crack it

[DasFox]

I'm a Tech and the few computers I've tried it on so far have all had problems with it, so I don't like it.

Use Avira it's a better free AV with less problems.

[RasToRizE]

i like to use eset smart it easy to crack it

+1

also i had too much problems with Avast.. so no good there

[whatsalah]

Search for Avira AntiVir Premium impressions... you won't be disappointed.

[Appzalien]

I stopped using avast cause it insisted on tagging all my keygens as trojans when they were actually clean. To me thats like crying wolf, if you get so used to it lying to you , you will not catch the real one when it comes by. Avira is alittle better but I gave that the boot as well after fighting with it for a few months. But I would rather use a free version of something that has to call home to be effective, than to crack one. there is a new free version of Adaware out now thats a combination of spyware and anti-virus (I believe its also real time anti-virus as opposed to on-demand like clamwin is). It doesn't have a firewall but there are other free ones out there. I have downloed Adaware free but haven't tried it yet, I use clamwin and a-squared now in combination but they're both on-demand and I have to manually test files I download. Besides that, a-squared made some drastic changes in version 5 and I don't like it anymore it sucks. I uninstalled it and reinstalled the older version, but I can't let it update itself or it will force you into the sucky one, so without being able to update the data base its toast in a month or so.

If I had to pick one though I guess it would be antivir (avira) since its issue with me was a conflict with BCWipe, a file wiper I use. and it would tag its dummy files as trojans when I was wiping files that it would scan as clean. BCwipe creates a dunmmy file as it wipes (ABCDEFG etc) and as it was wiping, avira would stop the process and say it was a trojan and I would have to click on ignore several times throught the wiping process. It became so annoying I gave Avira the boot. I contacted them about it but they seemed not to care, I even sent then screens of me scanning a file that showed clean and then wiping the same file causing warnings. So basically I dumped them for having terrible customer support, after all I could have used Eraser instead of BCWipe.

[vthl]

avast is a nonsense as compare to avira etc here i m talking abt the free version

[Stabber]

avast had high cpu usage and made my pc very slow so i wouldn't recommend using it

[bigdogg2020]

i tried that avast...it worked ok, but i recommend registry cleanner or even trojan remover

[Anshumanm]

I was using avast 4.8 now upgraded to 5, like it works fine.

[G_P]

+1 to avira

[digmen1]

Thanks Guys

So half of you like it and half don't !

[suz5cam]

I ended up paying for Cyberdefender about a year and half ago and although I got one or two pop-ups saying it blocked some malware.

I can't tell you how much memory it uses though, but I think my system is running fast enough for that it can't be too much.

[worldpease]

Until very recently I had been using Avast because it's free so I can put it on peoples and friends PCs that I fix
and that way they wont have to worry at all about the application expiring and not getting the updates.
And in the year or so that I used Avast I never felt that it bloated the performance of my computer in any way,
but then I have enough RAM and CPU, not the newest but enough I think.
SO I agree with the guys, ESET Nod32 is the best option since you have an older laptop,
It's fingerprint in your system is seamless and still it is a killer Antivirus, arguably the best there is.
My brother also uses it on his older XP laptop for that same reasons, and I'm back to using it too.

The only drawback I've found is that no patch (for the downloadable version out there) seems to be quite definitive,
one has to re-set the user-pass every now and then, but if the comp is yours, that shouldn't be more than
a minor annoyance in exchange of great security.