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| Ease of Set Up | 9.2/10   |
|---|---|
| Ease of Use | 8.9/10 |
| Value for Money | 8.9/10 |
| Reviewer Rating | 9/10 |
| Overall Rating | 9/10 |
By jaydeetee
on 24th May 2004
| Value for money | 6/10 |
|---|---|
| Overall value | 4/10 |
 jaydeetee's recommendation | |
One of only two free antivirus programs that scan emails but see bad points first. It is easy to install and set up etc.
Very bad point: when you get the inbound mail scanning settings set up with pop and smtp servers showing 127.0.0.1 and the username showing username#pop.isp.com this does not hold. When you reboot your pc it will have returned to pop.isp.com in the pop server and 127.0.0.1 in the smtp server meaning your inbound mail is not being scanned. We had 10 attempts at this manually setting it up and through the mail protection wizard. a definite bug in the program and, as most viruses come in via email a serious one.
The problem mentioned in the bad points is bad enough for me to think this Avast Antivirus software is not as good as it appears to be. Personally I think the one application you need to be paying for is the anti virus program and I'd go for Kaspersky myself. Good in all the reviews and tests and plain and simple to use.
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| Helpful | Unhelpful | Agree | Disagree |
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| 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Total Respect: -3
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fullermarc on 22nd Nov 2004