Avast Free Edition ?????

**Nhashon** · 18-05-2012, 11:11 AM

The website says avast free edition doesnt have these following features ,
SafeZone: Secures shopping & banking
Sandbox: Lets you surf the web virtually
Sandbox: Runs risky programs virtually
Firewall: Blocks hacker attacks
Firewall: Secures personal data
Firewall: Secures your identity

but after downloading it , these features are visible . Not only avast free edition , avg free editon , has similar saying like " NO FIREWALL " , but after downloading it , firewall is seen . Have a look at it , http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download. Whats your say ?????

**inphinity** · 18-05-2012, 11:52 AM

The Free edition does not have those features. The Trial of IS does.

**dugimodo** · 18-05-2012, 12:45 PM

What probably happened is when you installed the free edition it actually installed the full version as a 1 month trial and after that expires it'll give you the option to either buy it or disable the extra features. It's a marketing gimmick attempting to hook you on the extra features.

What I say though is use MSE and forget it, Avast and AVG are more intrusive and prone to installing crapware if you don't pay attention. I'd only use them if I couldn't use MSE for some reason.

**Nhashon** · 18-05-2012, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by dugimodo

What probably happened is when you installed the free edition it actually installed the full version as a 1 month trial and after that expires it'll give you the option to either buy it or disable the extra features. It's a marketing gimmick attempting to hook you on the extra features.

What I say though is use MSE and forget it, Avast and AVG are more intrusive and prone to installing crapware if you don't pay attention. I'd only use them if I couldn't use MSE for some reason.

yeah , youre right , its as marketing gimmick . so does MSE has a firewall ?

**gary67** · 18-05-2012, 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by Nhashon

yeah , youre right , its as marketing gimmick . so does MSE has a firewall ?

No but windows itself does

**ruup** · 18-05-2012, 05:04 PM

"Avast and AVG are more intrusive and prone to installing crapware if you don't pay attention" I seem to be missing some crapware on my Avast antivirus can you elaborate please? Also although Microsoft Security Essentials is good it can quickly be out of date, one of the things I really like about Avast is it updates far more regularly than Microsoft Security Essentials (must be the crapware that does it)

Cheers
ruup

**lakewoodlady** · 18-05-2012, 05:07 PM

Excuse me, MSSE updates every day, same as the others you mention. And it doesn't need crapware to do it.

LL

**dugimodo** · 18-05-2012, 05:16 PM

That was aimed at AVG mostly, I haven't installed Avast for almost a year so I can't claim to know what it includes these days. But I was referring to the web based scanning options that in my experince slow things down and make browsing less enjoyable, and I think AVG wanted to install a toolbar last time I tried it but I could be wrong there too. Maybe we can just pretend I didn't say anything about crapware and just go with MSE being less intrusive and more popular.

To be honest I just prefer MSE since switching to it and haven't bothered with the other free ones since. I did use both prior to MSE. As far as what does the best job it seems to change regularly but MSE always score well amongst the free ones tested in reviews I've seen.

Silly comment but I miss the Avast voice telling me the database has been updated occasionally.