My final verdict: Avast is terrible.
After reading some suggestions in this thread after my previous post, I looked into some of my issues. I couldn't find an automatic setting to deal with the viruses in Avast on my weekly scans. Avast was still detecting new viruses each week, and failed to deal with them. Here is a summary of what I went through.
- After reading this thread months ago, I made the switch from Security Essentials to Avast
- A few months later, checked Avast logs after noticing bad computer performance and websites randomly opening. Avast has detected viruses on weekly scans (every week, ~5 per week), and didn't appear to do anything with them. I then forced Avast to delete them.
- Trend's House Call detected a few more (8?)
- Ran Malwarebytes, clean up computer a little more
- Ran Dr. Web, detected 3 more viruses
- Reinstalled Microsoft Security Essentials, detected 8 more viruses
I'm starting to wondering what state my computer is in, and how much I should be worried, as a lot of these viruses had a severe rank (should I be changing my online banking passwords?? etc.)
I have never had issues running just solely on MSE and Windows Defender. Everything has went downhill after switching to Avast. I just can't believe how many viruses my computer now has, as I have never ran into this situations before. My only problems now is Windows Defender and MSE can't grab the latest virus definitions (MS help indicated this could be blocked by other anti virus programs).
I think I'm going to run Kaspersky tonight (free trial), to see what it comes up with.
So I just wanted to let the CP community know of my experiences with Avast. Maybe other Avast users have had better success.
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