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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: pauls on 14 June 2012, 13:38:55
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Could anybody advise is AVG antivirus software anygood.
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Purely personal opinion .. but AVG is no longer as good as it used to be ... has turned to bloatware and seems to slow systems down considerably.
I have changed my allegiance and now use, and recommend, "Avast free" .. it does what it says and does it pretty well IMHO
http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download
HTH
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2nded what he says ^^^^^^^^^ ;)
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Purely personal opinion .. but AVG is no longer as good as it used to be ... has turned to bloatware and seems to slow systems down considerably.
I have changed my allegiance and now use, and recommend, "Avast free" .. it does what it says and does it pretty well IMHO
http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download
HTH
Agreed,found much the same myself,now using Avira which seems ok and have used Avast and thats ok too
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AVG isn't as good as it used to be as others have said. I've always liked Comodo Internet Security. Firewall and antivirus all in one and I love the way it works. Put it on all the machines I build.
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"Microsoft Security Essentials" is also very good, I run along side AVG. But AVG is getting troublesome.
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"Microsoft Security Essentials" is also very good, I run along side AVG. But AVG is getting troublesome.
Running 2 or more AV solutions simultaneously will simply bog the machine down.
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avast for me, I have used AVG and found it slowed my pc down, avira was missing viruses and didn't update quickly enough
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Yeah I'd agree with above, it used to be very good. But on my Media PC I use to watch films on big TV, its been constantly crashing, even refused to uninstall, had to get a little tool to remove it all.
It used to be very good, but they really have dropped the ball lately :(
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I too have stopped using AVG and now use Avast (free version) Seems to work well. But I also run Adaware which finds things that get through the av programmes. :y
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Couldn't get on with AVG and thus have used Avira for past two years with no probs at all! :)
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"Microsoft Security Essentials" is also very good, I run along side AVG. But AVG is getting troublesome.
Running 2 or more AV solutions simultaneously will simply bog the machine down.
This is the rough spec of my home machine:
Model Viglen Genie Pro
Processor Intel Core i7-2600 3.40GHz, Quad Core with 8MB Cache
Memory (RAM) 16GB 1333MHz PC3-10600 DDR3 Memory
Hard disk 500GB SATA Hard Drive
Optical drive Serial ATA Multi-format DVD Writer/CD-RW Drive - Black
Display 22" display (height adjustable)
Graphics NVIDIA GTX550 Ti graphics card
Expansion: •- Two SATA 6Gb/sec, two SATA 3Gb/sec ports (internal)
•Two eSATA 3Gb/sec ports (external)
•One PCI Express x16 slot, one PCI Express x4 slot
•One x1 slot one PCI slot
•One DVI-D port, one DVI-I port, 1x DisplayPort
•One RG-45 port and one IEEE1394a port (rear)
•Two USB 3.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports (plus 4 internal headers),
•Support for up to eight front facing USB 2.0 and 1 IEEE1394 ports (subject to chassis)
Form: •One external 3.5'', three external 5.25'', four internal 3.5'' drive bays
•Front-facing Audio, FireWire and twin USB ports
•Dimensions (WxHxDmm): 200 x 430 x 500mm
•600 Watt 80 PLUS BRONZE Power Supply
Don't think it will make much difference to it. :y
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Dumped AVG last month because it was slowing the laptop down too much.
I gave Zone Alarm combined antivirus and firewall a try but tbh, its crap and will be getting removed when I can be arsed ::)
I think it was TheBoy who recomended Microsoft Esentals so I'd give that a go :y
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Iam using micosoft essential now and it is letting all sorts of stuff thru. thats why iam changing
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Iam using micosoft essential now and it is letting all sorts of stuff thru. thats why iam changing
Scrap the one then ::)
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Like others, AVG has gone bloaty, and a resource hog. Avast nags too much.
For freebie, I'm now an MS Security Essentials man, as someone suggested above.
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Used to use AVG but found the same a few years back - have been using Avast without problem for a few years now (don't find Avast nags too much - pops up when updating definitions but this can be disabled) and Zone Alarm firewall. Malware use Spybot and Malwarebytes, as well as Hijack This. :y
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Or you can switch to zorin (Linux) and never have to worry (unless you do some of the work that I do)
Switched my main machine and my laptops over from windows and found it is faster on Linux and the install was no more complicated than windows. Even the technophobe wife gets on OK with it :y
(Awaits TB's anti Linux comments ;D)
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"Microsoft Security Essentials" is also very good, I run along side AVG. But AVG is getting troublesome.
Running 2 or more AV solutions simultaneously will simply bog the machine down.
This is the rough spec of my home machine:
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Don't think it will make much difference to it. :y
Still a standard HDD, so the access times when the disk is being scanned (twice over as you have 2 lots of AV software running) aren't going to change no matter how fast the rest of the hardware is.
The possibility of a conflict arising if both the real time monitors decide to scan the same file at the same time is also greatly increased.
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Still a standard HDD, so the access times when the disk is being scanned (twice over as you have 2 lots of AV software running) aren't going to change no matter how fast the rest of the hardware is.
The possibility of a conflict arising if both the real time monitors decide to scan the same file at the same time is also greatly increased.
Indeed. Disk I/O is the most significant bottle-neck in any PC. Best not to thrash it any more than is necessary. Besides, most AV software loads the CPU quite badly too, and lengthens the boot time (or at least the time before a newly-booted PC can actually keep up with my typing!) significantly.
When I'm forced to use a Windows machine at all, Microsoft security essentials does the job. Doesn't constantly pester me nor load the machine up noticeably.
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Or you can switch to zorin (Linux) and never have to worry (unless you do some of the work that I do)
Switched my main machine and my laptops over from windows and found it is faster on Linux and the install was no more complicated than windows. Even the technophobe wife gets on OK with it :y
(Awaits TB's anti Linux comments ;D)
Drunk too much, really can't be bothered. Linux users and crApple users need AV as well now
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Or you can switch to zorin (Linux) and never have to worry (unless you do some of the work that I do)
Switched my main machine and my laptops over from windows and found it is faster on Linux and the install was no more complicated than windows. Even the technophobe wife gets on OK with it :y
(Awaits TB's anti Linux comments ;D)
:y :y :y
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Like others, AVG has gone bloaty, and a resource hog. Avast nags too much.
For freebie, I'm now an MS Security Essentials man, as someone suggested above.
Huh? not me. You must have offended her! ;D ;D ;D
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Or you can switch to zorin (Linux) and never have to worry (unless you do some of the work that I do)
Switched my main machine and my laptops over from windows and found it is faster on Linux and the install was no more complicated than windows. Even the technophobe wife gets on OK with it :y
(Awaits TB's anti Linux comments ;D)
Drunk too much, really can't be bothered. Linux users and crApple users need AV as well now
I only use AV when running Backtrack or when playing with rootkits on one of my victim machines just in case I get a bit of the code wrong ;D
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Like others, AVG has gone bloaty, and a resource hog. Avast nags too much.
For freebie, I'm now an MS Security Essentials man, as someone suggested above.
stick it in auto update mode and switch off the popups unless a virus is detected :y
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Try Avast free I find it far better than AVG free :y
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Still a standard HDD, so the access times when the disk is being scanned (twice over as you have 2 lots of AV software running) aren't going to change no matter how fast the rest of the hardware is.
The possibility of a conflict arising if both the real time monitors decide to scan the same file at the same time is also greatly increased.
Indeed. Disk I/O is the most significant bottle-neck in any PC. Best not to thrash it any more than is necessary. Besides, most AV software loads the CPU quite badly too, and lengthens the boot time (or at least the time before a newly-booted PC can actually keep up with my typing!) significantly.
When I'm forced to use a Windows machine at all, Microsoft security essentials does the job. Doesn't constantly pester me nor load the machine up noticeably.
OK as this has come back to the top. I did say "the basic spec of my machine" My C drive is a 10,000 rpm disk. And I did uninstall AVG to try it. On my slower laptops it has made a difference. On my desktop no change at all.