We had one client that was using it in the Enterprise and it worked, but the console was convoluted. Its updates required reboots constantly both server and workstation side and its performance drawbacks were not as bad as Symantec, but still very noticeable.
Lots of home users were using it, and we installed it on a lot of them about 2 years ago now, but since then we have moved most of them to Vipre or AVG. From: Roger Wright [mailto:rwri...@evatone.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 11:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Avast AV I've seen it on a couple home machines I've worked on. Both were eaten up with malware, and the Avast active protection really bogged the machines down. Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _____ From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 11:15 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Avast AV I take it from the lack of replies that no one is using Avast? In a way, that's good, as I really don't want to do a lot of research into it, but on the other hand, I don't have any ammo against it either... Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Joe Heaton [mailto:jhea...@etp.ca.gov] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 8:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Avast AV Anyone using the corporate level of this? Opinions? Also, for Stu, if you read this, how do your products compare to Avast, as far as CPU usage, overhead, etc.? Only reason I ask this is that I've forwarded the upcoming Sunbelt webinars to the rest of my IT group (6 people total) and one of the developers came back saying we should look at Avast as well... Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 jhea...@etp.ca.gov ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
