Avast has improved its installation process so it's faster then before.its's not the
fastest on the market, not by a long shots, but a standard installation took us about three minutes
around the same as last year. some items of note during the installation that will come up later in the review, to avoid the windows 7 and vista desktop gadget, or the webrep browser add on, you must choose the custom install option and uncheck those here.
It's just not as simple as a check box that gets its own installation window, since you have to go through the customize menu, which makes the auto- install sort of surreptitious.
One installation option, available only from the custom install menu, lets you side load Avast as a secondary security program to supplement your main one.
Avast 8, comparable with the 2013 version of competing suites, includes several new features that directly affect your security. changes to existing Avast features include increasing the number of virus definition file updates per day, from 20 or so in the previous version to more then 70 per day in version 8. when running on battery on laptops, Avast will automatically disable scans until the device is plugged in , and the suite now offers full ipv6 support.
Avast's Sandbox, by the way, automatically places programs in a virtualized state when it suspects them of being threats. It walls off suspicious programs, preventing them from potentially damaging your system while allowing them to run. As the program runs, the Sandbox keeps track of which files are opened, created, or renamed, and what it reads and writes from the registry. Permanent changes are virtualized, so when the process terminates itself, the system changes it made will evaporate.
system performance benchmarks show Avast 8 as being fairly middle-of-the-road. It's weak on startup time, generally adding 10 more seconds than average. Shutdown time impact was a bit faster than average, while virus scans were quite speedy and faster than many paid-suite competitors. Avast 8's footprint during common-use tasks such as MS Office performance, iTunes decoding, and media multitasking was average, as well. We'd like to see a much smaller hit on startup times, but other than that Avast 8 Free offers a reasonable trade-off. Avast 8's paid upgrades, however, could do much better.
As far as Avast's impact on system performance goes, in a real-world test Avast completed its scans in a timely yet not blazingly fast manner. A Quick Scan averaged about 28 minutes, slower than last year. The Full Scan averaged to 73 minutes. RAM usage was surprisingly light, with Avast only eating up about 16MB when running a scan.
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