AVG or Avast?

[Terminus]

I'm looking for input from those who've used both. It's my understanding that the main advantage of Avast is that it uses less resources and is less likely to cause slowdown.

[JudgeDredd]

Avast. Without a shadow of a doubt. I've not had any viruses and I'm seldom bothered by it. Once a year I have to register it to get my free version...they send an unlock key and it's done.

It's very non-intrusive and free to boot.

AVG I did enjoy until it became a pita....regularly needing a reboot.

[Arctic Blast]

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd

Avast. Without a shadow of a doubt. I've not had any viruses and I'm seldom bothered by it. Once a year I have to register it to get my free version...they send an unlock key and it's done.

It's very non-intrusive and free to boot.

AVG I did enjoy until it became a pita....regularly needing a reboot.

EXACTLY what happened with me and AVG, and I also made the switch to Avast and have been quite happy with it.

I've also noticed on various forums that the majority of people who get false positives from their AV software seem to be AVG users.

[V22 Osprey]

Yea, the newest AVG is annoying.I had constant problems, and I couldn't play American Conquest Divided Nation because AVG kept thinking it was a virus.[8|]

The older AVG was better.Oh well.[:(]

[06 Maestro]

I use both of them on different machines. Just like the browsers, the best one varies often. It is clear something went amiss with AVG a month or so ago, but it seems to have settled down. Regarding the actual performance of these two programs, I don't recall ever having a virus slip in while using either program. When I used Norton, it happened several times-trojans-once with some rather devastating effects.

A few months ago AVG almost failed me. It allowed a virus onto the hard drive via Outlook-mail from a trusted source, but it did catch it quickly before any damage was done. It was one of those things that gets into your contacts list and rapidly spreads everywhere.

[Arsan]

I have not tried AVG ever but i'm very happy with Avast.
I've been using it for 4 years now, and never had a serious problem with it. [&o]
Cheers

[rogueusmc]

Avast also allows for varying levels of protection to various types of applications...AVG had one global security setting for it all last I used it.

[Terminus]

Thanks, people. I just uninstalled AVG and swapped it for Avast.

[SlickWilhelm]

For anyone else looking for free anti-virus protection, this comparison between AVAST, AVG and Avira Personal Anti-Virus may interest you:
http://antivirus.about.com/od/antivirus ... freeav.htm

I ended up going with Avira, and have been happy with it so far.

[rishi]

Avast in (in my opinion) the best free av out there, with its incomming and outgoing email scanner, real time protection and more thourough scanning than avg, user-friendly interface, and the abotion of downloading connection if a virus is detected.
been using it for years without a hitch.

*God, reading over that i sound like a freaking Avast representetive*
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[sabre1]

Sheesh, these spammers are getting good. [8|]

[leastonh1]

Wow, that is a pretty good spam posting, yes. It's even on topic [X(]

I was using AVG free edition and Comodo firewall until recently. Due to getting a bit fed up with all the false positives from AVG, I trialled Kaspersky Internet Security 9 for 30 days and ended up buying it. It's a really nice product and doesn't hog resources. I was going to buy direct from Kaspersky (£40 for the year), but after a quick look on play.com, I got a retail copy for £20 including postage.

Do I get my commission now? [:D]

[madgamer2]

AVAST!......AVAST!.....AVAST!

rant over

Madgamer

[junk2drive]

Fooling around with avast the other day. I found a setting for not allowing popups during fullscreen games.

[rakshu]

i make it scan at 4am and i update as soon as i go online i also use firefox portable in sandboxie this has worked well as in testing i went to malware/virus sites only once did something screw firefox but as it was sandboxed i just delete the sandbox reopen firefox in sandboxie as if nothing happened by the way adblock plus addon for firefox and windows defender plus spybot works well with all my comps [/align] [/align]
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[leastonh1]

ORIGINAL: madgamer
AVAST!......AVAST!.....AVAST!

Kaspersky!......Kaspersky!......Kaspersky! [:D]

rakshu - Kaspersky also has a sandbox mode built in, so there. [:'(]

[Alan Sharif]

I have tried Avast and AVG. Avast was by far the best, for the reasons listed above. No contest in my opinion.  

[ajith]

I use Avast with my WINME now because I can't use AVG on it anymore. Tomdkat mentioned false positives. I don't know how to identify a false positive but since I've started using Avast with my WINME it has detected a lot of Restore viri whereas AVG never did. Perhaps that's a discussion for a different thread.
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[leastonh1]

Is the post above another one of those spammers or a real person?? It's getting harder to tell the difference. Is THIYUJ KIWIIW a real name?

[Jeffrey H.]

I'm beginning to get the feeling that these spammers like it here. Now thier posts are contructive, on topic and often even self reflective. So, why are we calling them spammers ?