Which is better Antivir/Classic or AVAST "free"

I personally would choose Avast, (from the choices given) for I have used it in the past. But I have went different routes now: (Spysweeper, CA Assoc.A.V., AdAware SE (paid), MS BETA and AShampoo)

I saw this in PC World's magazine:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y99/drwngflies/PCWorld_AV_Review.jpg

 

Latest avast update is 16th thursday.Do they update at weekends.All other antivirus i know of has updated since then ,so without heuristics isnt this a problem?.

 

Avast normally does not update on weekends. But if urgent, they would update many times a day! So need not worry, you are well protected..

 

Still no change on that "Access Forbidden..." message on the AntiVir FTP site.

This was on the AntiVir Forum as a source of updating:

http://www.free-av.de/down/vdf/vdf_h.zip

It starts a direct download of one ZipFolder that UnPacks into one antivir.vdf of
5,781KB (+/-) and one setup.fu0 of zero KB.

I have AntiVir (7) on this WinXP System and the AntiVir (6) Win9x varity on other system
that almost never connects except for NavData UpDates,
I keep it up to date by copying the VDF's 0-3 from this (7) to it.

Structures are different, (7) is all in one folder and (6) has six folders within a folder,
one named "UpDate" has some smaller ZipFolders within it
and my *GUESS* would be to put the downloaded ZipFolder in there.

This I have never done, I had never seen AntiVir until one month ago,
so research for the best way to use this tool.

Usual "I don't know much about what I am telling you
so use at your own risk".

Art

PS: ANYONE with any knowledge of this, please chime in

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More from AV Forum--"if your updater doesn't work try the Direct download .

http://dl.antivir.de/down/vdf/fusebundle_de.zip

unzip to Folder.

Then Insert in Antivir by Choosing Update VDF in the main Window.
browse to Directory and choose antivir.vdf"
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edit; this one comes with a "read-me" in English, to tell you how to do it!!!
This contains the same two files plus two 'dll's one 'vxd' and the 'txt' 6877KB.
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Some of the above ought to work, lots easier if you can get (7)up

 

Thank you for all the info pilotart!


You are more than kind to give the links and all the info -- perhaps someone else will be able to use it -- I have just given up on these cheeky folks!

There was NO call to do the things they have done -- so, I want no more to do with it!


I dare not say anymore -- I am older than dirt, and getting one's buns in an uproar is just not a good idea anymore!
It sure has no impact on the matter -- other than to some how make those 'in charge' of the mayham -- "Glad all over"!
Which makes me wonder if the average age around there is 2?

Well, enough said -- no sense beating a dead horse as they say!

Thanks again for your efforts!
Take good care and have a safe and warm weekend!

 

You still can directly download the single VDF files:

http://dl1.avgate.net/upd/vdf/antivir0.vdf.gz
http://dl1.avgate.net/upd/vdf/antivir1.vdf.gz
http://dl1.avgate.net/upd/vdf/antivir2.vdf.gz
http://dl1.avgate.net/upd/vdf/antivir3.vdf.gz

Also important parts of the scan engine:

http://dl1.avgate.net/upd/engine/avewin32.dll.gz
http://dl1.avgate.net/upd/engine/nt/avpack32.dll.gz
http://dl1.avgate.net/upd/engine/nt/avrep.dll.gz

dl1 is not the only available server, plus the bandwidth was increased so the servers are accessible all the time now.

BTW, I had a look at lots of HijackThis and Autoruns log of people who have problems with upgrading to AV7 or using the AV7 guard. Almost every single one of them had two or more antivirus guards active at the same time and those with problems upgrading had registry access controlling programs installed, such as Spybot Teatimer who simply blocked AntiVir from correctly upgrading.

But yes, there are still quite a lot of issues with AV7. :-|

 

Manually UpDating Antivir/Classic

I can understand how you feel and just feel kinda guilty that it was
reading about all those troubles (first) that kept me 'out-of trouble'
but, that's what forums are for...) Art (from the Thunderstorm Corridor of the World )
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Stefan Kurtzhals,


Thank you for posting all those working links as well as the advice, there are no doubt,
lots of users who can use those until H&BEDV gets things fixed for all.
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Just spotted this post on AV Forum:>-http://forum.antivir-pe.de/thread.php?threadid=3584->.
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"Hello,

there were some problems with registry-entries encountered.
Try my little RegPatch to solve the problems.

Here you can download that patch:

http://tomtoms.org/AntiVirPatch.reg

you have to doubleclick the file (needs admin-rights) and add the contents to the registry,
after reboot all should work fine."
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{I have not used (or needed) the above Registry FIX, use caution by first backup your Registry!!!
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(BTW sure lots of users never heard of "Teatimer" they call it Immunize now.
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My WinXP's AntiVir {7} Classic is functioning perfectly (auto-update and all)
so for me to keep current my AntiVir {6} that is still on my old Win98,
I have been 'copy/pasting' the 'VDF's 0-3 directly from my auto updated {7} into the old backup box.

Should I also be pasting copy's of those 'dll's and 'search engine' as well?

AV {7} has everything in one Program Folder, AV {6} has seven Folders (most empty) under Program Folder.

One of them is named "FAILSAVE" and contains the four 'VDF's and the AVWIN32.dll & AVRep.dll and an AVGUARD.VXD.

All of the above plus the AVPack32.dll are in the main folder, should replacements go into both folders or does one 'feed' the other?
(It looks like 'FAILSAVE' took copies of what I pasted before.)

When I copy/paste, I copy to a FAT32 external HD, NTFS files won't work.

Will that work for that 'AVRep' and the AVPack ?

Art

 

Actually, the new DLLs from the free edition server will not be compatible with AntiVir 6 as they are designed for Unicode and AntiVir 6 doesn't support that.
So you only can update the VDFs, which works for the moment.

 

antivir before, but when it updated to ver.7, some update problem occured on one of my PC ( the other is fine), so I decided to give the avast! a try. In fact, excepting the non-silent update of antivir, antivir are still good, I am waiting to see if the future version of antivir would solve my update problems and then turn back to it as it has a bit more detection rate.

avast! has excellent auto-update feature.