Is Avast less good than other paying antivirus ?

I rather have a free antivirus if this antivirus is good. I have Windows Vista. But if I pay another antivirus, will it bring me something better than Avast? or Avast is good enough?

So according to brockin??whatever, Avast is the worst he's never seen?!? I've successfully used Avast for nearly 5 years. It updates daily, and I've never had a virus successfully get past it. It caught a virus recently in an email, so why wouldn't I trust it? Why do people think that paying a high price for something makes it better than free versions that have been around longer and more successfully?!?!?

Avast is good enough, but nod32 and Kaspersky are the king. Just don't go for Norton or mcafee. I had a bad experience with Norton. It detected a virus but couldn't remove it.

I use avast, and i'm happy with it. No viruses ever.

no avast is not the best.
if u really want to buy any antivirus then norton is the best of all. or u can also go for kaspersky antivirus.

kaspersky

Kaspersky Internet Security includes all the components of Kaspersky Anti-Virus, as well as some additional ones. The application features real-time protection, detection and removal of viruses, trojans, worms, spyware, adware and keyloggers, as well as detection and removal of rootkits. KIS also includes a personal firewall, parental control and spam and phishing protection.Kaspersky Internet Security has won numerous awards from respected IT Journals, such as PC Authority, PC World, PC Professional, PC Pro, Computer Shopper and Computerbild. It is also the winner of many editor's choice of websites like CNET and Softpedia.

http://www.kaspersky.com/

edit: it depends upon us what we is our browsing,mostly free AVs don't provide maximum protection to the home users.
they do browse freedomly as everyone wants but don't know the sites that contains malicious content inside it.as a result often gets caught up with it.

paid ones like kaspersky and nod32 such a brillant AVs i have seen so far.their detection rate is so good and takes less resources.they do fast scanning.worm detection and rooti-kit detection technologies truly makes better.

firewall and pro-active defense modes makes really hard for the attacker to get into the system.this makes these kidda Avs better.

Avast is a pretty decent anti virus. good in protection but also have a rather high false positives rate (that is detects a virus or a trojan even if it is not). If you rather want a free antivirus go with avira antivir classic. The only problem is that it has limited usage (good for at least several months) then you have to go to another cycle of installing/updating it. If you dislike this option go with AVG free edition. It is better than avast (although just a slight difference). But if you're willing to pay then go with - 1. kaspersky AV, 2. ESET NOD32 AV or 3. avira's antivir premium
remember that most free AV have limited options compared to commercial ones and if you really want to secure your pc, you also got to have a good anti spyware and a good firewall.

Hello,
Avast! is the worst Anti-Virus I've never seen !!
The best Anti-Virus for free is Avira AntiVir and the best Anti-Virus of all is Kaspersky.