Is Avast! is better than other antivirus like Norton or AVG??

[kristain]

Avast! Now speaks more than 27 Languages... 

I want to use it in my PC but have so many doubt  ........

Is Avast! Is better than other antivirus like Norton or AVG??


 Anyone can help.. ?

[Vikram Varaprasad]

I never tried avast. Usage of anti virus is of one's personal interest....
Just check some anti virus rating web sites for further details. Try it once and compare it with your previous anti virus. You can get the difference and you may get experience with them too......

[@@]

avast
 is FREE antivirus with spyware protection --& a package of applications
GO ........

[soybean]

I think Avast! is very good.  For personal use, I definitely choose the free version of Avast! over Norton or McAfee.

[overthehill]

I agree totally. I've had Norton and McAfee and paid for both. I have been using Avast free version now for some time and find that is every bit as good. No, better.

[2x3i5x]

AVAST is very good. It works very well. 

AVG is doing ok I guess, it's on my mom's old pentium 3 computer and it's not giving her problems when she uses the old PC to watch videos.

[CBMatt]

In my opinion, Avast is loads better than Norton.  As for AVG...well, that's really your call.  I'd say Avast and AVG are just about even, so it's mostly a matter of which one you like it better.  You might as well give it a shot.  If you don't like it, all you have to do is uninstall.

[zf490]

All support avast
I think that there are better programs, such as pure Kasparsky . But it is not free

[overthehill]

I have heard great things about Kaspersky , and I know it's rated very high. Possibly the best?  Avast though certainly does the job and I'm very satisfied with it.. So my thinking is; if I can get the milk and meat without cost, why should I buy the cow?

[@@]

Correctly. avast  gives the meat and milk
But non-free programs like kaspersky  & non-free avira . Add a lot of spices to the meat

[overthehill]

Well @@ ,I suppose being Canadian, I don't require a lot of spices.

[SuperDave]

MicroSoft Security Essentials works very well for me. Very effecient and not a resource hog.

[gotapal]

I personally use (as well as the company) ESET NOD32 Anti Virus. I have had no problems with this anti-virus at all. AVG (especially the free version) wouldn't really be my choice at all. Their detection rates of Newly-Released viruses isn't very good (as tested by ourselves within a controlled environment). Also, it tends to have a file-scan lag.. Making full scans take longer. As for Norton, I personally wouldn't bother. It uses too many system resources in order to run, the scan times take long and also it tends to leave alot of files behind once "fully uninstalled".