Comments on: avast! Professional Family Pack Review

By: רשלנות רפואית

רשלנות רפואית — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:38:36 +0000

Simple, easy settings for quick or full scan, can scan any area separately. Faster than AVG free

By: Andrew Edney

Andrew Edney — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:35:21 +0000

DaHoServer – it doesnt really compare because those other companies dont yet have a WHS “aware” version of their products yet. In time they will, but today the only game in town is Avast.

By: Danomite

Danomite — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:10:20 +0000

In addition, they are now offering 25% discount on the to bring the price down to less than $60 for the suite. Wish I hadn’t just shelled out more than $90 to renew my AV on my other systems…

By: Red Rabbit

Red Rabbit — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:29:00 +0000

Eset ESS is way better…

By: DaHoServer

DaHoServer — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:18:45 +0000

All the integration with WHS is great, but how is it at doing it real job of dealing with anti-virus, anti-spyware, spam, etc., etc.???

How does it compare to Norton, McAffee. AVG. Trend. etc.?? I have not found any reviews or analysis of this anywhere…

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:38:18 +0000

Thanks for the info Hugo.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:41:01 +0000

Thanks for the review.

Fo your information, if avast (on the client machine) is configured to protect its settings with a password, the password is also required if the user wants to tamper with the scheduled scan.

I.e. if you install avast on your in-laws’ system and then set the password, they shouldn’t be able to abort the scan in any way.

To set the password, right-click the avast tray icon and use the appropriate menu item.

By: travelgenie

travelgenie — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:28:51 +0000

Have you measured or noticed if there is a performance penalty when a client reads/writes to WHS shares?

By: Ying

Ying — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:24:26 +0000

Sounds perfect

By: JohnBick

JohnBick — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:30:00 +0000

I installed the Avast! software a week ago. (I run Symantec and MS Windows One-Care on my other machines.)

The good news — it found one thing that was not caught on my clients. It happened to be in both the share and in the backups. The share was an easy fix — I deleted the offending files.

The bad news? How do you delete the offending file from the WHS backup? And worse, the defaults caused the backup file to be quarantined. And still worse, WHS interpreted that as an inconsistency in the backup. I eventually had to reset/ restart the entire backup sequence.

There are definitely things to be careful of in this arena. I have reconfigured Avast! to report only and to NOT quarantine or delete anything automatically. But on a server of this nature I really do want to be able to just let it run totally unattended and automatically!

And, for an added irritant, the dang thing will not actually initially schedule the scans, whether using the WHS Console tab or opening the Avast! Console. They show as scheduled but do not actually run. I played with it for four days before I finally got one (of 5) scheduled scans to actually run. Tomorrow I will see if it does it two days in a row.

Great concept, and I really do love all the features you describe, but this is not fully functional with WHS yet and you can have some real problems when automating things.
_________________
….JBick