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coldplay
February 9th, 2007, 01:15 AM
which free AV has the most of feature of its paid version?
FastGame
February 9th, 2007, 01:22 AM
I don't think there's much debate about this one.

Avast.
cheater87
February 9th, 2007, 01:23 AM
My guess is Avast.
WSFuser
February 9th, 2007, 01:32 AM
for antivir, the premium version has 5 additional features (look under Premium functions (http://www.avira.com/en/produkte/antivir_personaledition_premium.html)).

for avast, the professional version has 9 additional features (look at Versions comparison (http://www.avast.com/eng/av4_version_comp.html)).

and for avg, the commercial versions have 9 additional features (look under What you do not get (http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5)).

of course, you should evaluate the additional features as they vary for each product. i think avast home may be the least lacking.
coldplay
February 9th, 2007, 01:40 AM
thank you for answering

the problem I have with avast home is that it freezes IE sometimes on one of my PC and makes me have to restart PC. I found out the problem has something to do with its webshield. But what's the point to use avast if I turn off webshield.
Tarq57
February 9th, 2007, 06:08 AM
Have you got the webshield set to "normal"?
All my Avast shields are set to normal, which is recommended. Seem to recall I had (rare) IE freezes when I tried some of them on "high".
('course, Firefox doesn't freeze much.;D )
bigc73542
February 9th, 2007, 07:54 AM
Probably Avast
MalwareDie
February 9th, 2007, 10:26 AM
Definitely Avast
vhick
February 9th, 2007, 01:42 PM
yeah! probably avast!

i know that the free version is lack of only i funtion to the pro version.
lodore
February 9th, 2007, 01:49 PM
avast home does have most features including the webshield which seems to be about the only trouble free http scanner.
lodore
lucas1985
February 9th, 2007, 02:20 PM
Avast. It keeps the web scanner in the free version.
farmerlee
February 9th, 2007, 02:52 PM
Definitely Avast. AVG also retains pretty much everything of the pro version, all it mainly lacks is certain configuration options.
lucas1985
February 9th, 2007, 03:44 PM
AVG has a better product (AVG Antimalware) than AVG Pro ;)
the Tester
February 9th, 2007, 07:09 PM
Avast.
Jarmo P
February 10th, 2007, 01:39 AM
It is without a doubt Avast. Home version has almost all the features that the pro version has.

Now that i am using Antivir PE Classic I can give a hint to Avast staff for maybe downgrading some features, so more people would buy the pro ones ;)
Just kidding guys, I think Avast makes most profit on companies instead home users.