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Alwil hits the big time
CZECH-BASED INSECURITY firm Alwil Software reports that the population of an average-sized country (about 40 million) has now registered to use its free Avast! Home Edition anti-virus software.
All the more impressive is the fact that in the last year alone – October 2006 through October 2007 - the outfit gained 20 million new ones. In descending order, the users originate from: USA, France, Brazil, Italy, Poland and Japan.
Justin Bellinger, Worldwide Operations Manager at Alwil says that security suite is under the development and it will be available next year. Details won’t be available until beta phase, though.
Unlike some free anti-virus software floating around on the web, Avast! Home Edition does remove viruses from your PC instead of merely pointing out the infection and screaming like a teenage schoolgirl. This is a good thing.
Alwil strikes us as an old-school AV developer that doesn’t live off the on-line misery of users, but is clawing its way up the AV ladder by providing end-users with they need: hassle-free-no-strings-attached virus removal. You be the judge. µ
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In favor of another free one : AVG.
Avast may well function fine, but the nag screens of the versions I tried were too much for me when I tried it.
I will admit that I have a very low tolerance level to nag screens (basically I see one and you're toast).
AVG works fine and doesn't nag. I am building an intolerance to the update process though - the way the app pushes its popup to the front and over anything else I may be doing is starting to get on my nerves.
Ill be happy to use avast as long as they never feel the need to bloat out their software like so many of the largest AV providers. It seems that as soon as Norton AV set the standard in useless, obtrusive, resource hunry software, the rest of the industy leaders followed suit, providing "Internet Security" bundles, that had a preformance hit so great, they were worse than most viruses.

If avast goes down that road, ill be suprised and dissapointed. Lets pray they keep to a lean mean fighting machine.
Having just unpicked a malware attack by WinAble and the misleadlingly named AVSystemCare I'm not so sure about Avast. Avast certainly did scream like a girlie (which was a good thing) but most of the disentangling was courtesy of the Bleeping Computer site and my knowledge of DOS and the Registry. Of the software solutions I found SuperAntiSpyWare most useful. But I like Avast because it's free and unobtrusive.
I've been using Avast! for three years and have yet to see a nag screen, I define nag screens as pop ups. It has worked well for me and you can disable any module from the task bar.

But no nags, maybe Mr. Monett did not register the software and was getting register nags to be fair, but there are no nags for the registered software and I thought I would correct the notion that Avast! is nagware, it is not.