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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.
Avast 8 fixes browsers, out-of-date apps
Installation
Avast has improved its installation process so it's faster than before.
It's not the fastest on the market, not by a long shot, but a standard
installation took us about three minutes -- around the same as last
year.
Some items of note during the installation that will come up later in
the review: To avoid the Windows 7 and Vista desktop gadget, or the
WebRep browser add-on, you must choose the Custom install option and
uncheck those here. Firefox and Internet Explorer will all block WebRep
from installing by default, but it may be easier for some to cut it off
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.
Also during the install, you are opted into Google's Drive desktop
manager. If you're a Google services addict, this is a good reminder to
get the client app. If not, well, it's a small piece of bloatware to
uninstall later. Such are the installation blues.
Unlike last year, installing Avast once again requires a reboot. Still,
the uninstallation process left no detectable traces on the desktop or
in the registry.
One 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, as a way to see 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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