Free version. And I'm not talking about other of the less-known virus scanners on VirusTotal; I'm talking about the Avast one. VirusTotal looks pretty legit.
I'm questioning the integrity of my Avast anti-virus.
its unlikely there is any thing wrong with avast, other than you may not be getting virus database updates as fast as they are available, which would be a client side issue. avast serves me well, free or paid. [malwarebytes is better for the actual removal if you do get infected but thats another subject]
and basicly what i was saying before was:
virus scaning software you already have will always be > a website free trial of one that you have yet to install
the reason being is that the website trial is pretty much always going to say you have an infection even if you do not, to convince you that you need to purchase their product. even the more trusted virus protection software trials will at least say that your system is at moderate to severe risk.
competition is fierce between these companies, and many will lie and every one else will stretch the truth as much as they can get away with.