Avast or AVG?Post Date: 2007-09-25 |
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67alecto 
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 Topic: Avast or AVG?Posted: 25 Sep 2007 at 2:23pm |
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I put AVG on my wife's machine, and it's doing just fine.
I also hear good things about Avast.
Preferences? Have you had just one or both?
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thecomplex
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Posted: 25 Sep 2007 at 2:50pm |
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I've used Avast! and I've been really happy with it. Easy to use, and appears to keep my PC very clean. Have not used AVG but I've heard on it - maybe I should try it on my new rig?
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EdH63
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Posted: 25 Sep 2007 at 4:07pm |
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AVAST is a good program. Been using it for a number of years.
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GruntMaster
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Posted: 30 Sep 2007 at 3:52pm |
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I've use AVG on my companies laptop and it works ok...it does seem to take for ever to run a full scan, but other than that I don't have any real complaints.
I use Avast on both my home pc's...one an old Dell with XP Home and the other a Digital Storm PC with XP Home. It runs well on both. I had Norton for years on the Dell and it is a serious resource hog. My Dell runs faster now that I've switched to Avast AND it found 2 viruses that Norton did not.
All in all, my prefrence would be for Avast over AVG, but AVG is a very close 2nd.
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Robert
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Posted: 03 Oct 2007 at 12:25pm |
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I highly recommend Avira Anti-Virus. It is totally free and has minimal overhead when compared to AVG and Avast.
www.free-av.com Edited by Robert - 03 Oct 2007 at 12:25pm |
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GruntMaster
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Posted: 14 Oct 2007 at 5:52pm |
What did you mean by "minimal overhead"?
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