Avast 5

[pwcmed]

Anyone try out the new Avast 5. I'm only showing 2 processes after I installed it. I didn't even have to reboot.

[FZ1]

I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials which, from what I have read, seems to be one of the best anti-virus/spyware apps you can use. It seems like when I did use Avast, there was something really annoying about it but I can't remember what.

[bubba]

Buddy of mine uses it, past out on his couch a couple times to be woke up by the Avast dude coming across the speakers "antivirus updated"

[FZ1]

Buddy of mine uses it, past out on his couch a couple times to be woke up by the Avast dude coming across the speakers "antivirus updated"

Yeah, that was it. WTF

[bubba]

It is a little on the freaky side.

[Illuminati]

You can turn off the audio notifications... lol.

[FZ1]

Why they thought people needed an announcement for that and to leave it on by default is beyond me. Makes me question their decision making.

[kenc51]

It can also come up saying "A VIRUS HAS BEEN DETECTED" on some sites, not p0rn or anything ;)
It seems some scripts scare it.
I still use it, but with the notifications off.

[pwcmed]

Buddy of mine uses it, past out on his couch a couple times to be woke up by the Avast dude coming across the speakers "antivirus updated"

It's a different voice with 5, friendlier but still a tad bit annoying.

[Dragon_Cooler]

I <3 Avast. I tried MSE for a while and I hated it. It completely deleted a couple programs out of a false positive and I was unable to recover them. At least when AVAST picked them up I had the option to ignore. Avast all the way!!!

[Sporg]

I'll have to check out the latest version. I think mine has a woman's voice, which was pleasant, then we had a rough go at it for a while. I eventually broke up with her and disabled her voice feature, now things are going much better. She does her job and we don't have to talk anymore...wait...