Whole-Product Dynamic Test

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admin

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Friday, December 18th 2009, 8:11pm

Whole-Product Dynamic Test

has been released on our website (see Dynamic Tests section)!

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subvertigo

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Monday, December 21st 2009, 10:57am

What is "Avast! Free 5" ?
The last Avast! is 4.8.

And why free edition and not Professional?

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admin

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Monday, December 21st 2009, 11:19am

Alwil Software decided to submit from now on its free product for testing instead its commercial version (because it would not score differently anyway). Avast Free v5 has been distributed thru GooglePack already in November in various countries, so we accepted to test it. The Pro/IS version of v5 is still in beta, so we could not test/use the suite.

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city_zen

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Sunday, January 10th 2010, 4:52am

Quoted from "admin"

Alwil Software decided to submit from now on its free product for testing instead its commercial version (because it would not score differently anyway).

Hi,

I'm curious about what you said there (I mean the part that I highlighted in bold). Is that really so?
I know that the detection rate of the free and commercial versions of Avast should be the same, at least in malware detection tests. But in this particular case, when the AVs are being tested against websites containing malicious scripts/exploits/files, then I think that the commercial version of Avast should have a better detection rate than the free one. Or at least that is what Alwil would like us to believe, according to their website: Avast Free and Pro Comparison. In the comparative chart, it clearly mentions "Safer Web surfing" as one of the advantages of the commercial version of Avast over the free one.
Also, in a more thorough comparison that they published here , it says the the commercial version has a "Script blocker" while the free one does not. Wouldn't that influence the detection of the malicious scripts in the tests?

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admin

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Sunday, January 10th 2010, 10:35am

the comparison you refer is of the old 4.8 version. nevertheless, if avast prefers to get tested with the free version and give that explanation, they are free to do so.

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jtjitesh12345

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Wednesday, January 13th 2010, 9:04am

Antivirus And internet security

Admin sir i want to ask you that the antivirus that people download for free using keygens and cracks are same to the original antivirus programmes that we buY??