We've talked about AVG Free Anti-Virus on the blog before. We haven't talked about Avast however, which is another alternative to the expensive Anti-Virus products from Norton and McAfee.

Avast is quickly becoming one of the most popular free anti-virus products on the market.

The producers claim that Avast is:

The most popular free antivirus with more than 80 000 000 registered users. Perfect for people who send e-mails and surf popular websites, but do not store any sensitive data on their computers.

Although we mainly install AVG Free edition on the computers we repair (if there is no anti-virus already installed) a number of our customers have requested Avast by name.

We'd always recommend that any customer that uses a free anti virus, also considers a software firewall (such as ZoneAlarm basic firewall) as this will provide added protection from trojans, malware, viruses or spyware.