Avast Pro Antivirus 2. Review & Rating.

Every antivirus utility must perform the basic tasks of keeping malware from getting a foothold on your computer, and cleaning up any infestation that already exists. Some products go way beyond the basics; Avast Pro Antivirus 2. Among many other impressive bonus features, it includes a basic password manager and an unusual tool that checks the security of your entire network. Almost half of the commercial antivirus products that I've reviewed cost about the same as Avast—$3. Four of my Editors' Choice antivirus products come in at this level: Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2.

Kaspersky, Norton, and Webroot. The fifth, Mc. Afee, costs $5. Windows, mac. OS, Android, and i. OS devices. Were it not for "Pro" in the title bar, you'd be hard pressed to distinguish this product's main window from that of the free edition.

It has the same slate- gray background and left- rail menu, with a few buttons and panels in green and purple. Sounds strange, but it works. When you click Protection in the menu, though, you'll notice a couple of items freed from the padlock icons they displayed in the free edition. However, the vast majority of this product's advanced features also come with the free edition. And unlike many vendors, Avast doesn't prohibit use of the free edition in a commercial setting.

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You'd think being so generous with the free version would cut into sales, but this model seems to work for Avast. Shared Antivirus Features. As mention, this product includes all of the features found in Avast Free Antivirus 2. Rather than repeat myself, I'll direct you to read that review, so I can focus here on what's special about pro.

First, though, I'll review the shared features. Lab Test Results Chart. Malware Blocking Results Chart.

Antiphishing Results Chart. All five of the independent antivirus labs that I follow include Avast in their testing. I would characterize its results as good, but not quite great. My aggregate lab score calculation assigns Avast 8. Kaspersky Anti- Virus owns this test, with a near- perfect 9.

In my hands- on malware protection test, Avast detected 9. However, Comodo, PC Matic, and Webroot Secure. Anywhere Anti. Virus all earned a perfect 1.

After I got past an initial kerfuffle involving an incompatibility between Avast and my antiphishing test tool, the antiphishing component did excellent work. Its detection rate was just 2 percent below that of antiphishing champ Symantec Norton Anti. Virus Basic, and it scored significantly better than the protection built into Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.

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It's quite amazing how much security goodness Avast packs into its free antivirus. The Wi- Fi Inspector component performs the unusual task of scanning your network (wired or wireless) for security problems. Nightbreed Full Movie. Its Software Updater looks for browsers and other software targets that are missing important security patches. You can create a bootable rescue disk in case aggressive malware makes the system unbootable. There's even a password manager, albeit a simple one.

Other bonus features show up when you install the Online Security browser extension. It warns you away from unsafe links in search results, actively blocks ad trackers, and even corrects your URL typos. The Safe. Price extension perks up when it sees you shopping and searches for better deals on your selections. The hardened Safe.

Zone browser kicks into Bank Mode when you visit a financial site. This is a separate desktop that's isolated from malware, keyloggers, and other unwanted hangers- on. Security Upsell. On the Privacy page, you'll find a button to invoke the Secure.

Line VPN. Clicking it gets you a warning that your connection isn't private, along with a Go Private button. Clicking that button gets you…pricing information. Secure. Line is a separate purchase, even in the Pro antivirus.

Selecting Cleanup from the Performance page gets you a similar experience. When you click the Check My PC button, it reports that it found things like junk files, obsolete Registry data, and inefficient system settings. But when you ask it to resolve those problems, once again you get a price list, just as in the free antivirus. Cleanup is also a premium feature in AVG Anti. Virus Free, but with a difference. With AVG, when you invoke PC Tune.

Up, you get a one- day free trial of the full product. So What's New? All of the features I've described to this point also come with the free antivirus. So, just what do you get when you spring for the paid edition? Avast has done some tuning of the message, but the for- pay features remain on the techie side. Previously called Secure DNS, Avast's Real Site component secures your system's connection to a reliable, non- sketchy DNS server.

DNS (Domain Name System) servers exist to translate human- readable domain names like www. IP addresses like 2.

If cyber crooks manage to subvert your system's DNS settings, they can redirect your browser to a fake website, leaving the Address Bar showing the URL you expected. This kind of DNS poisoning is like phishing, but more pernicious.

Real Site isn't a very sexy feature, though. You can't see the threat it protects against, and you can't see that it protected you.

When you have a program that might be dangerous, but still want to run it, run it in Avast's Sandbox. Avast virtualized all file and Registry changes made by the program. When it terminates, all of those changes vanish. But really, how often do you need to run sketchy programs? In addition, the sandbox's privacy settings can occasionally interfere with the operation of a sandboxed program. For example, one of my test programs that resides on the desktop couldn't load its data file. By default, Avast identifies sandboxed programs by attaching a flag above the title bar, but you can set it to use a colored border instead.

That's about the extent of the Sandbox settings accessible to ordinary users. Just about everything else requires serious tech chops. Why Pay? Avast Pro Antivirus 2.

To the cornucopia of bonus features found in its free counterpart, it adds protection against DNS poisoning and a sandbox for running iffy programs safely. The problem is, those added features just don't merit the price. Most people will be fine with the free edition. Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2. Kaspersky Anti- Virus get great scores from the testing labs. Mc. Afee Anti. Virus Plus protects all of your devices, not just one. Symantec Norton Anti.

Virus Basic piles on spam filtering, password management, and a powerful intrusion prevention system. Webroot Secure. Anywhere Anti. Virus is the lightest and tiniest antivirus around.

Each of these has its merits, and each is an Editors' Choice for commercial antivirus.

Is Beachbody's Shakeology a Scam?[Editor’s Note: This article is long and I hope you find the information you need to make an informed decision. Towards the end, I have a special gift for you.

If you want to cheat, click here to get it now.)]Happy Halloween everyone. I’ve got a tale of a scary MLM to share. It’s my first attempt using a new writing tool, Scrivener and a new writing shorthand called Markdown. Normally, I’d put more time into proofreading the article and formatting, but having spent dozens of hours on it as it is, I need to bite the bullet and publish. Regular readers know that I have a hobby of analyzing MLMs and showing consumers how they deceive you. Last week, I noticed that Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation had highlighted a friend who has grown a $4k a month business in an hour a day. Kellie Gimenez is doing it with an MLM called Beachbody.

You may know of Beachbody’s workouts: P9. X and Insanity are two of the most popular ones. Truth is, I’ve been meaning to write about Beachbody for a couple of years now. I noticed a good high school friend of mine promoting it on Facebook. I pushed it to the back- burner because I wanted to believe it was legit for his sake. Also, I see nothing wrong with P9.

X. From what I’ve heard it is a great workout. With Nick’s podcast and what Kellie said, I couldn’t ignore Beachbody any longer. Oh well, this could make for an awkward 2. This is a long article so if you want the “TL; DR” version, it’s: “Get the hell away from Beachbody’s Shakeology and its ‘business opportunity.’ You are wasting your time and money. La Migliore Offerta Movie Watch Online. Every piece of information seems to show it is an illegal pyramid scheme according to the FTC’s guidelines.

A former Beachbody Coach also gives good details into the pyramid scheme nature of the company. According to her, the focus is not on nutrition or fitness, but classes instead include: “How to never take no for an answer when trying to sign on new coaches” or “How to not take no for an answer when selling Shakeology.”You can pick up Vega One available on Amazon which is extremely similar (and better in some ways) for half the price. A former Beachbody Coach mentioned Nature’s Plus Spiru- Tein High Protein Energy Meal is a great choice at about a single dollar per serving, 1/4th price of Shakeology. There’s no reason to be a Coach to get a discount as you can get the Shakeology discount price on Ebay without paying coaching fees.”The Products. As I said in the introduction, I don’t mind the workouts. They seem legit. What is extremely fishy is the Shakeology product.

The product itself isn’t particularly, but the pricing. Before I cover it allow me to explain why pricing matters in an MLM.

Why Does Pricing Matter in an MLM? This is a good question and few people seem to grasp it initially. One of the best explanations I’ve seen is by a commenter on Fat. Wallet using an analogy: ”Say Mr Pyramid buys pens in bulk from Staples and sells them for $1. Who’s gonna pay $1.

But tell them that they can also sell pens for $1. Three levels, $4. Everyone has to buy 1.

Just find three people who find three people who find three people…. In the end, yeah, you are buying 1. Why wouldn’t you join? Product is moving. The pens get used. No recruitment revenue, only product commissions.

Absolutely 1. 00% a pyramid scheme. The only real reason people are paying $1. Completely unsustainable as eventually, you run out of people to sell to and those at the bottom get hosed buying $1. This is an extreme example, but if you look at the world of MLM, there are some pretty big name companies out there that somewhat fit this mold on a less cut and dry basis.”[I go into this analogy in more detail here.]This is why The Verge and The Atlantic are writing about Herbalife which is being investigated by the FTC for being an MLM that is a pyramid scheme. Back to Shakeology. Anyone who has read my Vi. Salus article knows this is a red flag.

There I showed that Vi. Salus was charging $1.

Fibersure, and a multivitamin. I know saving a dollar doesn’t seem like much, but in 1.

Unless you are the CEO of company making millions this is exception use of your time. Unfortunately Shakeology isn’t quite as easy to break apart. There are many ingredients. I found a nutritional label here, which is worth looking at. There’s a pretty good product comparison of many shakes including Shakeology here.

It criticizes Shakeology in quite a few places, but gives it an overall thumbs up for ingredient choices. His conclusion is interesting: ”Drinking shakes as meal replacements is not, in my opinion, a sustainable long term health plan. No liquid meal replacement satisfies the need to eat and chew solid food, which also stimulates the release of digestive enzymes in saliva… I do not recommend any of these products as a route to supreme good health. However, if you are going to drink a meal replacement, opt for Shakeology by Team Beachbody, it seems to be way better than the others in terms of the quality of the ingredients.”So in fairness, Shakeology may have decent ingredients, but it isn’t necessarily a good health choice (according to this extensive review).

As we covered earlier, pricing does matter in MLM. According to Gimenez’ description on the Side Hustle Nation podcast, the meal replacement shake is around $4 or $1. We’ll dig into pricing in a minute, but we are going to take a quick detour. At the 1. 1: 5. 0 mark of the podcast, Nick Loper politely says, “ummm, it didn’t really do it for me” while laughing (Translation: You don’t want to put this in your mouth.) Kellie says that some shakes “you can just shake in a shaker and go for it.” With Shakeology you need to “find your mix” and “you need to blend it.” She mixes the chocolate flavor with peanut butter, a banana, almond milk, ice. This is where Shakeology starts to fall apart. If you go back to the nutritional facts, it only has 1. It’s marketed a meal replacement, but I’ve never seen 1.

The US RDA for calories in a day is around 2. It varies with age/gender, but that is an average.) People typically eat three meals a day. Allowing for some snacks, a typical “meal replacement” should have between 4. Thus to get a true “meal replacement” you’d have to drink 3 shakes at a cost of $1. However, as Ms. Gimenez points out you need to “find your mix” and “blend it”, so it isn’t meant to be a “meal replacement” on its own. Let’s just say that for $4 and an additional dollar of mix ingredients, you can make yourself a $5 shake. That’s in your own home, not at a swanky restaurant as you might in Pulp Fiction (Note: adult language).

If you are going to pay restaurant prices for a shake mix at home, you might as well buy $4. Wait, there aren’t any $4. Are there any shake mixes that are $4 for 1. The closest thing you can find is Carnation Breakfast Essentials, No Sugar Added, which has similar calories, protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals for $0. Publishing. Images/8. PRODUCTSLocal. Landing. Page/Nutritional%2.

Panels/CBE- Powder- NSA. If you use the Subscribe and Save option, the price comes down to 5. Yes, I know Shakeology Coaches are going to try to rip me apart for the comparison saying that Carnation is full of bad ingredients. However, as long as shakes aren’t a good health choice (according to the review referenced above) to begin with, quibbling over the differences here doesn’t make sense. What’s vastly more important is that the nutrition label is very, very similar, but at around 1/6th or 1/8th the price of Shakeology. If you are looking to get into shape the important things are calories, protein, carbs, fiber, etc., not whether it has apple pectin powder or wheatgrass in it. Update 1: I found a similar product, Vega One available on Amazon, that is $5.

I write this) or $2. Looks like it almost identical with digestive blends, antioxidant blends, probiotic blend, tons of vitamins and minerals, similar calories/protein. Vega One has double the fiber and an Omega 3 blend, which arguable makes it better at a much lower cost.