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Looking to compete with both paid and
free security suites, Avast wants to create a unified approach to your computer
security. Long gone are the days of the quirky interface. Avast is accessible
and robust, with an impressive list of free features and strong, though hardly
stellar, performance benchmarks.
Installation
Avast has improved its installation process so it's faster than before. It's not the fastest on the market, not by a longshot, but a standard installation took us about three minutes.
Avast has improved its installation process so it's faster than before. It's not the fastest on the market, not by a longshot, but a standard installation took us about three minutes.
Some items of note during the
installation that will come up later in the review: to avoid the new Windows 7
and Vista desktop gadget, or the new WebRep browser add-on, you must choose the
Custom install option and uncheck those here.
Automatic installation of these
features is frowned upon, although Avast does provide a clear method for
uninstalling them. It's just not as simple as a check box that gets its own
installation window, since you have to go through the Customize menu, which
makes the auto-install sort of surreptitious.
The current versions of Firefox and
Internet Explorer both block forced add-on installation. When you run one of
those browsers for the first time after installing Avast, they'll ask you if
you want to allow the new add-on.
On the plus side, installing Avast
doesn't require a reboot, and using its uninstall tool we detected no remnants
in the Registry or on the desktop. Avast has said that the installer has shrunk
for all three versions by about 20 percent, although it's still a large
download at around 70MB for the free version.
A new Avast installation option,
available only from the custom install menu, lets you sideload Avast as a
secondary security program to supplement your main one. We're not big fans of
this option from a security point-of-view, because it can bog down your system
resources without actually making you safer. However, for seeing if you like
Avast, it's not a bad thing as long as you remember to choose one security
suite to go with.
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