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Anyone Have AVAST on Their Computer?

Sunshine Kate — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 13:20:22 GMT

My Kaspersky is expiring soon and lately have been having problems with it. Has anyone had luck with AVAST free version?

TIA

Re: Anyone Have AVAST on Their Computer?

colliegirls — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 14:07:22 GMT

OMG, never download AVAST, it is a Trojan, comes loaded with problems and is very difficult to uninstall.

Try Stopzilla or Malwarebytes, we have had both and are pleased with them.

Re: Anyone Have AVAST on Their Computer?

Nuttmeg — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 15:51:58 GMT

@Sunshine Kate wrote:
My Kaspersky is expiring soon and lately have been having problems with it. Has anyone had luck with AVAST free version?

TIA

I have used AVG. This is an article about free Anti-virus software programs. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388652,00.asp

You need to remove your current copy of Kaspersky. You can get directions from their site. You can not run two Anti-virus programs on a computer at a time. You can run Malwarebytes, with an Anti-virus program https://www.malwarebytes.org/products/. You can try the real time software for 30 days.

Re: Anyone Have AVAST on Their Computer?

chickenbutt — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 19:20:08 GMT

AVAST has always been a good choice. My husband uses their security suites on his computers but I don't like security suites so I use the free version.

I've been using it for a few years and it's perfectly good. It's not problematic and not intrusive.

I also use Malwarebytes which, BTW, is not another antivirus so you don't want to use JUST that. It's anti-malware and works well with your antivirus software.

Re: Anyone Have AVAST on Their Computer?

tennpal15 — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 19:23:41 GMT

I've had avast for years and have never had a problem ~

Re: Anyone Have AVAST on Their Computer?

sueinsf — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 20:49:37 GMT

I recommend Malwarebytes and the free version of AVG (which I much prefer to AVAST -- tried that in the past).

Re: Anyone Have AVAST on Their Computer?

cowboy sam — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 21:21:45 GMT

I have used the paid version of Avast now for 2 years and love it.

Plus i use the paid version of Malwarebyes and it does a great job.

Re: Anyone Have AVAST on Their Computer?

Stargazer77 — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 22:59:07 GMT

I've used the free version of Avast for at least 10 years and I like it. I also use MalwareBytes.

Re: Anyone Have AVAST on Their Computer?

Moonchilde — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 23:55:27 GMT

I used Avast in the past with no problems. For quite a few years I have happily used AVG and Malwarebytes.

Re: Anyone Have AVAST on Their Computer?

Nightowlz — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 17:37:29 GMT

We have used Avast in the past with no problems. DH installed Microsoft Security Essentials on the desktop. Not sure what he has on the laptop right now. He just installed Win 10 on it. As far as I know Kaspersky is the best. We don't feel the need to pay for it when we can get a good one free. We have the paid version of Malwarebytes so it's always running. We bought it before they started charging a yearly fee. We just had to pay the one time price.

Re: Anyone Have AVAST on Their Computer?

Toppers — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 15:43:09 GMT

@colliegirls wrote:
OMG, never download AVAST, it is a Trojan, comes loaded with problems and is very difficult to uninstall.
Try Stopzilla or Malwarebytes, we have had both and are pleased with them.

Avast is not a Trojan.

It's a legitimate antivirus program.

When I was using a PC with Windows, I used it on my desktop computer without any problems.

I no longer use a Windows-based computer, so I no longer use it. I would still recommend it to someone, if they are looking for an antivirus program for their computer.

It's possible that you installed a free version from somewhere that had other free software and toolbars attached to it through the download.

If that's what happened, you have to be careful to click off on that free software that you don't want it, as you are doing the installation.