I have had many recommend avg as an alternative to norton. Many have said it is better. I don't know if that is true or not but does it work in the background to scan like norton? Does it live update on its own? Can you schedule it to scan on its own? What overall automation does it have? Also, what do you think about avg?????
ingeborgdot@yah
Catweazle 140 Grandad Team Colleague
In the order you have put them, the answers to your questions are:
Yes
Yes
Yes
Complete, including integration with MS Outlook
Very high quality product, losing marks only because there are some quite rare virus variants it misses, and because it on occassions produces false reports. In that, it is only marginally less capable than the best available 8.5/10
By the way, because of its many problems, I'd rate Norton as about 5/10, even though it is very accurate at its task.
ingeborgdot@yah
So, are we talking about the free version? Would you rate it the best?
WCStoll 0 Newbie Poster
I love my avg. I have it on both computers, 98SE and XP Home SP2. The free version is the only virus program that has detected viruses before they can hurt either pc. Norton Pro 2004 caused so many problems on my 98SE that I had to reinstall windows. I have tried McAfee and Symantec/Norton, esafe, escorcher and McAfee's freebie called stinger and Grisoft's AVG is the BEST.
j1979c 0 Light Poster
McAfee's freebie called stinger and Grisoft's AVG is the BEST.
Agree agree. Works best for me too. :mrgreen: and your com runs faster..... and even faster with Daschund Hare.....saves my cash on subscriptions and buying RAMs..... :twisted:
Lightninghawk 40 Posting Whiz in Training
Well... I still reccomend AVG to everybody, but they are falling behind a little bit. I've heard they are about to make a comeback though :) Finally
unitednetworks 0 Newbie Poster
We here at United Networks have been huge fans of Grisoft's AVG products for years. We recommend AVG to our customers and friends over any other Anti-Virus or Anti-Spyware product.
Visit our website at http://www.shopunitednetworks.com and use our AVG Selector Tool to find the version that fits your needs!
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ingeborgdot@yah
I agree that avg is great. I have been using it now for over a year and have had only good luck.
Dani 4,310 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster Premium Member
Been using AVG for roughly a year - the paid version. Happy with it and its light footprint.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
i use avg and it runs happily on a pc with 384 meg of ram (norton slowed it to a crawl)
slurpee55 0 Light Poster
Iused to use the free AVG and recommend it (I still do to people who rarely use the net or who can't afford one of the other programs), but last year I gave up on it, between getting rarer updates (roughly weekly or a bit less rather than once or more a day as with other programs) and getting a number of false positives - I got frustrated.
Yet, overall, it is still a good program for most people. You need to determine how "dangerous" a user you - or others who access your computer - are. If you are all sensible, it should be all you need.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
i get one avg 7.5 update a day or therabouts
its resident shield is excellent. yes, it does get false positives but it has caught more in my case than either norton or mcafee
iamthwee
It's true what they say about AVG. It's a great free program. I was using norton before. Needless to say I don't anymore.
DimaYasny 180 Godmode enabled Team Colleague Featured Poster
compared to Norton everything is a candy. my personal choice is AVG antispy and Antivir (free-av.com). Antivir is as light and as free as AVG, but it is slightly better at detecting little monsters, although it doesn't have an email module in the free version. so yeah, AVG is my second choice, and I used it when antivir's update site was down for a month or so
Melissa2704 0 Newbie Poster
CimmerianX 197 Junior Poster
IMHO, the 2 best free Antivirus products are AVG and Avast.
For an independent review: http://www.av-comparatives.org/
Avast gets higher marks for detection without false positives.
AVG is a fine product and I've used it for years, you'll like it. I've moved to avast since they did away with the yearly renewal for the free product.
reubenj90 0 Newbie Poster
Avg is definitely much much faster norton, but i don't think that it is very effective when it comes to detecting threats. I still prefer avast to avg
Ghostrider939 0 Newbie Poster
Reuben, Agree, agree. I run free AVG on Win7 Laptop and XPPro desktop and it's
freakin' marvellous. Also running Norton and AVG has picked up several things missed
by Norton. Don't get me wrong, I think Norton is good, but AVG is also good and free.
Next door neighbour is MS accredited tech and HE swears by AVG.
Blitz-labs.com 0 Newbie Poster
nortan slowed down my system the moment i installed it.
Even though I dont use AVG its much better than Nortan anyday. still would recomand it as a great free anti virus
badmans 0 Newbie Poster
I have had many recommend avg as an alternative to norton. Many have said it is better. I don't know if that is true or not but does it work in the background to scan like norton? Does it live update on its own? Can you schedule it to scan on its own? What overall automation does it have? Also, what do you think about avg?????
Why don't you try McAfee , its preety :cool:
max_xc70r 0 Newbie Poster
There are two really good Anti-Virus softwares out there and one of them is AVG: AVG Setup
and the other one which I use is Avast. I've had Avast for a long time now and haven't had any trouble since I changed from NOD32, which was great but Avast is free and does the job.
You can download the latest Avast from here: Avast Setup
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