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    Bjorn Lundahl

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  1. Review - avast! Professional

    4.8.1201 (May 12, 2009)

    "The best there is and now also equipped with heuristics"

    Do not use Kaspersky, Norton, Nod 32, Bitdefender, AVG etc. use Avast and you will have a pc that is malware free and a program which is reliable and just works. The program has a lot of features which many other lacks, features which are essential in the fight against malware. I have been in contact with the company behind Avast named Alwil and they have informed me that since version 4.8 Avast is equipped with heuristics. They are planning to announce this together with other new features related to heuristics in the third quarter of 2009.

    Avast is a protective fortress with all its shields and will protect your pc against viruses, spyware, adware, rootkits and other malware. I have used Avast for nearly four years in different computers and it always work reliably and have kept them free from viruses.

    Avast has a lot of cool skins to choose from. It is not a dull anti-virus program like the rest.

    Note: Equipped with heuristic means that the program has a capability to catch unknown viruses.

    Björn Lundahl
    Gothenburg, Sweden

  2. Review - avast! Home

    4.8.1335 (May 12, 2009)

    "The best there is and now also equipped with heuristics"

    Do not use Kaspersky, Norton, Nod 32, Bitdefender, AVG etc. use Avast and you will have a pc that is malware free and a program which is reliable and just works. The program has a lot of features which many other lacks, features which are essential in the fight against malware. I have been in contact with the company behind Avast named Alwil and they have informed me that since version 4.8 Avast is equipped with heuristics. They are planning to announce this together with other new features related to heuristics in the third quarter of 2009.

    Avast is a protective fortress with all its shields and will protect your pc against viruses, spyware, adware, rootkits and other malware. I have used Avast for nearly four years in different computers and it always work reliably and have kept them free from viruses.

    Avast has a lot of cool skins to choose from. It is not a dull anti-virus program like the rest.

    It is also free!

    Note: Equipped with heuristic means that the program has a capability to catch unknown viruses.

    Björn Lundahl
    Gothenburg, Sweden

  3. Review - avast! Home

    4.8.1201 (Jun 3, 2008)

    Not only the detection rate counts!

    According to AV- Comparatives Avast earned a advanced plus on demand detection of virus and malware in February 2008. That is a fine reward.

    But I do not think that this is the main rational argument for considering Avast. Some other anti-virus software scores in this regard even somewhat better.

    The main arguments for using Avast, apart of being free, is all its special features. What comparatives and Virus Bulletin does not consider are just those features and they are not either supposed to consider them. They consider mainly only two things and those are the detection rates and that the software does not make so called false positives. Those considerations are extremely important but, please, do not consider them as the whole truth but only a very important part of the whole truth.

    Also consider those very important features Avast has such as resident protection, P2P shields, web shield, boot time scan, virus chest (which protects in a vault, against malicious attacks, certain files which are very important for the operating system), network shield (a lightweight firewall) and other features.

    In other words, no good having a good detection rate if the software does not also have a good capability of detecting malware and not just in the laboratory, but also in the real practical world.

    Alwil is the company which makes Avast and Alwil is indeed a very serious company. It does not nag you with all sorts of ads asking you to buy, buy and buy. This makes a difference and actually tells you something. It tells you that they are serious. They make a software which is considered to protect you in the real world. They have seriously considered all those features when they made Avast.

    Apart of all this it is, as mentioned, a free software which also protects you from spyware and rootkits. It has a lot of skins to choose from which makes it in fact really special and attractive. Those properties are also very important.

    Bjorn Lundahl
    Gothenburg, Sweden

  4. Review - Webroot Desktop Firewall

    5.5.10.20 (Apr 11, 2008)

    I think you "Papa Lazarou" have missed the point. All outbound traffic are allowed for 7 days as Webroot Desktop Firewall is in a learning mode during that period, that is in Webroots own words: "new intelligent, "learning" firewall. It "watches" what you do; then learns from your activity to only interrupt you for abnormal activity". After 7 days Webroot will warn you if a new activity is trying to reach the internet. Not everyone likes Comodos intruding and annoying pop up windows. I think this is a very good firewall. It is light on memory, all ports are in stealth and it is free as a bird!

    Bjorn Lundahl
    Gothenburg, Sweden

  5. Review - Spyware Doctor

    4.0 (Sep 8, 2006)

    I trust this program very, very much. Nowadays, Spyware Doctor is among the very best in finding spyware and adware. It also stops you from visiting bad sites (if you have it activated all the time). It tried to stop me to visit a bad site which downloads against your will, the adware program called - Error Safe - (please avoid Error Safe, it is really criminal), but I thought that Spyware Doctor was wrong and visited the site anyway, to realize (with horror) when I saw the words Error Safe on that site, that Spyware Doctor was right. I have read about this adware before. Quickly I closed Firefox, but some adware were downloaded. I scanned my pc with Spyware Doctor, Ad-Aware SE Personal and Spybot Search & Destroy. The first scan with Spyware Doctor was enough. I think that Spyware Doctor, nowadays, nearly finds most adware and spyware -in the wild-. It scans your pc a lot faster than Webroot Spy Sweeper (also among the very best), which is very slow. I only, now and then, scan my pc with Spyware Doctor. I do not have it activated all the time. This program together with Ad-Aware SE Personal (freeware) and Spybot Search & Destroy (freeware) are all you need against spyware and adware. If you also use Firefox (with the extension -no script-) you will very seldom find anything at all.
    Björn Lundahl
    Göteborg Sweden