Avira Antivir - better than Avast? + problems with ZA Pro

[Dave Cohen]

isotobin@identicalimagepleez.org wrote:
> I just loaded Avira Antivir free and it's hard to tell whether it's better
> than Avast. I know some have said that it catches more in tests, but I see
> that there's a conflict with Zone Alarm. Avira's guard creates a service
> that in turn creates a loopback to port 18350. This causes the Zone Alarm
> icon to always reflect internet activity. Is there a fix for this?

Well, we live and learn. I've been running Alvira and ZA for a while and
only after reading your post did I noticed that of which you complain.
Since it never bothered me before and I can't see any cpu activity by
either app when idle and I like both apps I'm just going to ignore it
unless there is a fix which of course I will test. If it really bothers
you, Avast remains a very close 2nd to Avira. I could be happy with
either one.
Dave Cohen

[isotobin@identicalimagepleez.org]

Dave Cohen <user@example.net> wrote in news:YN2eh.4926$ne3.4670@trndny03:

>
> Well, we live and learn. I've been running Alvira and ZA for a while and
> only after reading your post did I noticed that of which you complain.
> Since it never bothered me before and I can't see any cpu activity by
> either app when idle and I like both apps I'm just going to ignore it
> unless there is a fix which of course I will test. If it really bothers
> you, Avast remains a very close 2nd to Avira. I could be happy with
> either one.
> Dave Cohen
>

Except that if you like to have Zone Alarm "stop all internet activity" by
activating its lock after a period of inactivity, it can't because it
thinks a program is always trying to contact the net through that loopback
port. That's why I'm probably going to reload Avast (although it slows
down page rendering a bit with all its shields).