Avast 7 used the same shields to fatally damage the System Kernel in Windows 8, when both were in Beta testing. Avast 5 and 6, for example, kept blocking access to my Windows XP Recycle Bin, based on Predictive Heuristics (The Avast File Shield). I’d rather take a small risk of infection than wade through loads of false positives from predictive heuristics. I have several times posted in The Lounge about my personal dislike of Predictive Heuristics (HIPS, Zero-Day protections, Behavioral Prediction, etc.). I also find that being careful and using privacy extensions in browser activities keeps malware at bay pretty well.įor those who can put up with the incessant alerts, UACs and Smart Screen or Phishing Filters can also help. Just two or three deep scans every couple of weeks seem to find anything malicious which may have slipped through. MSE-4 and some stand-alone scanners (Malwarebytes, Super Antispyware, Hitman Pro (Cloud based multi-engine), etc.) seem to provide more than enough protection. In a more general vein, I personally don’t care about a one or two percentage point difference. Their AV components never got high ratings, as I recall. But I think it was several bad updates a few years back, which blocked all Internet access on some computers, which started folks looking for alternatives to Zone Alarm. I agree with your assessment of Checkpoint and its ways of doing business. You weren’t put off their products by their scareware tactics of a couple of years ago? (Perhaps if you already had their anti-virus you wouldn’t have seen that.) Zone Alarm would probably have been included in the “other 11.1%”, as they are not a major AV player or possibly “Kaspersky 6.7%” since that’s who apparently provides their anti-virus technology.Ĭheck Point Zone Alarm anti-virus has been tested by Virus Bulletin whose tests were mentioned in the article (but not on Windows 7). OPSWAT only reports market share, not effectiveness.
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