Need some advice:Avast Antivirus over Norton?

Greg · 12-07-2005, 06:27 AM

Need some advice please.

I'm kinda the default IT guy at a small firm and it appears that the annual virus subscription is due for our Mcafee antivirus. Being that it is $34 each for about 10 users, my boss is asking me if there was a cheaper alternative. He's willing to go with paying the subscriptions but he's open to suggestions.

I've been testing the Norton, Avast and AVG scanners. To test them, I DL'd a zip file containing about 593 viruses out of 602 files. The AVG did the worst, detecting about 559. The Norton got 585, and surprisingly, Avast got 588.

Avast is free while Norton is about average in price, although we'd still have to pay the equivalent annual fee. However, Norton is much more well known and it'd be hard to convince my coworkers and boss that a free scanner is trustworthy. What do you think?

12-07-2005, 06:27 AM	#1 (permalink)
Greg New Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 10	Need some advice:Avast Antivirus over Norton? Need some advice please. I'm kinda the default IT guy at a small firm and it appears that the annual virus subscription is due for our Mcafee antivirus. Being that it is $34 each for about 10 users, my boss is asking me if there was a cheaper alternative. He's willing to go with paying the subscriptions but he's open to suggestions. I've been testing the Norton, Avast and AVG scanners. To test them, I DL'd a zip file containing about 593 viruses out of 602 files. The AVG did the worst, detecting about 559. The Norton got 585, and surprisingly, Avast got 588. Avast is free while Norton is about average in price, although we'd still have to pay the equivalent annual fee. However, Norton is much more well known and it'd be hard to convince my coworkers and boss that a free scanner is trustworthy. What do you think?

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