AVG 7 - what do users think of it?

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Stuart C

The 7th Jan update/Verisign/Word fiasco was just about the final straw for
me & NAV (& I expect it was for thousands of others). In my opinion,
$ymantec have taken a once-great piece of software & degraded it to the
point where it can almost be considered spyware.

The absolute last straw was the truly pathetic $ymantec "Uninstaller" for
2003 which left bits scattered all over my PC. Luckily I can cope with this
& manually removed the left-overs, & with a little help from jv16 Power
Tools got rid of the *four* sets of reg entries the "Uninstaller" had left
behind. (A cynic might take the view that $ymantec deliberately make their
products difficult to remove - I'd guess 95% of home-users wouldn't be able
to completely get rid of it.)

I wasn't happy with the free AVG 6, so now I'm doing the 30 day trial of AVG
7, & already I'm impressed with it's configurability & the frequency of the
updates. I'd be very interested to hear the opinions of other users of AVG
7, especially those who've had experience with several different AV apps.

Thanks in advance, Stuart C.
 
I felt the same about Norton 2004. I went with NOD32. I couldn't be
happier.

BTJustice
 
Stuart said:
I wasn't happy with the free AVG 6, so now I'm doing the 30 day trial
of AVG 7, & already I'm impressed with it's configurability & the
frequency of the updates. I'd be very interested to hear the opinions
of other users of AVG 7, especially those who've had experience with
several different AV apps.
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What didn't you like about the free AVG 6? I've got it and it works
for me. I have my security setting in OE set up correctly, don't use the
preview pane, and have the HTML turned off. But even before I did the
aforementioned, I was never infected by a virus using AVG 6.
Guess I'm wondering why I should switch to AVG 7? What's the advantage.

Have recently installed Mailwasher but that's more to delete Spam at the
server than for anti-virus purposes (obviously).


--PS
 
Stuart C said:
The 7th Jan update/Verisign/Word fiasco was just about the final straw for
me & NAV (& I expect it was for thousands of others). In my opinion,
$ymantec have taken a once-great piece of software & degraded it to the
point where it can almost be considered spyware.

The absolute last straw was the truly pathetic $ymantec "Uninstaller" for
2003 which left bits scattered all over my PC. Luckily I can cope with this
& manually removed the left-overs, & with a little help from jv16 Power
Tools got rid of the *four* sets of reg entries the "Uninstaller" had left
behind. (A cynic might take the view that $ymantec deliberately make their
products difficult to remove - I'd guess 95% of home-users wouldn't be able
to completely get rid of it.)

I wasn't happy with the free AVG 6, so now I'm doing the 30 day trial of AVG
7, & already I'm impressed with it's configurability & the frequency of the
updates. I'd be very interested to hear the opinions of other users of AVG
7, especially those who've had experience with several different AV apps.

Thanks in advance, Stuart C.
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I've tried most version of Norton AV, somehow hoping the next version will
not be 'Bloatware. Same goes for Mcafee (the worst AV IMHO).

I used NOD32 for just over a year and found it to be very light on system
resources. My subscription ran out so I thought I'd try AVG (FREE version).

I was impressed and 6 months ago bought version AVG 7.0. I think I paid $29
for 2 years subscription/updates.

Updates and detection have been first rate, it isn't as light on system
resources as NOD32, but much better than any of the heavyweights (i.e.
Norton).

Clive
 
After serious thinking Stuart C wrote :
The 7th Jan update/Verisign/Word fiasco was just about the final straw for
me & NAV (& I expect it was for thousands of others). In my opinion,
$ymantec have taken a once-great piece of software & degraded it to the
point where it can almost be considered spyware.

The absolute last straw was the truly pathetic $ymantec "Uninstaller" for
2003 which left bits scattered all over my PC. Luckily I can cope with this
& manually removed the left-overs, & with a little help from jv16 Power
Tools got rid of the *four* sets of reg entries the "Uninstaller" had left
behind. (A cynic might take the view that $ymantec deliberately make their
products difficult to remove - I'd guess 95% of home-users wouldn't be able
to completely get rid of it.)

I wasn't happy with the free AVG 6, so now I'm doing the 30 day trial of AVG
7, & already I'm impressed with it's configurability & the frequency of the
updates. I'd be very interested to hear the opinions of other users of AVG
7, especially those who've had experience with several different AV apps.

Thanks in advance, Stuart C.
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This user says YES! :D

The automatic, and easier to perform updates are good, and everything
just seems so much slicker and easier to use than AVG6.

Thumbs up here! :-)

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Rich
Remove My Pants to reply :)
"Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the
other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one
off." - Tommy Cooper
 
Clive was thinking very hard :
I've tried most version of Norton AV, somehow hoping the next version will
not be 'Bloatware. Same goes for Mcafee (the worst AV IMHO).
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Yuck to both. Norton was bloated, so switched to AVG6, then got AVG7.

Used Mcaffee many years ago after being recommended it by an IT bloke,
never again.

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Rich
Remove My Pants to reply :)
" A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up
and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls
out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just
looking.'" - Tommy Cooper
 
Thanks guys, I appreciate you taking the time & effort to reply. Rather than
post replies individually, it seems more sensible to write them all at once.

Burford: thanks for letting me know about NOD - while I've a feeling I'll
go with AVG, it certainly seems to be the best alternative & I'll check it
out carefully before I commit myself.

Petter: first, I've around 115,00 files on my PC, & found the free AVG 6
tested only around 36,000 of them, whereas a full NAV scan or complete AVG 7
test checks them all - probably 6 doesn't test compressed files, & may also
assume some file types are safe & don't need testing. Second, the Advanced
settings of 7 give you the chance to customise scans to the exact
specifications you want.

Clive: very much appreciate your extremely helpful reply, & comments on
differences between AVG 7 & NOD (see below for McAfee!)

Rich: again, both your comments very helpful & much appreciated, & your 2nd
one probably made my decision for me - thanks again! (see below for McAfee!)

Re McAfee - had it for around one single week when I got my first PC, as it
was recommended by the manufacturer. But even as a complete beginner I
loathed & mistrusted it, & went to down the local electrical store & handed
over the absurd asking price for a copy of NAV. A cynic might well wonder
how much of their budget McAfee have to set aside as a slush-fund to provide
sweeteners for all the PC manufacturers & software reviewers who recommend
it so highly.....
 
Stuart C has brought this to us :
Petter: first, I've around 115,00 files on my PC, & found the free AVG 6
tested only around 36,000 of them, whereas a full NAV scan or complete AVG 7
test checks them all - probably 6 doesn't test compressed files, & may also
assume some file types are safe & don't need testing. Second, the Advanced
settings of 7 give you the chance to customise scans to the exact
specifications you want.
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I think you're right there; technically, there's no need to scan files
that cannot run executable code, like zip files, and now viruses, like
MyDoom, are expoiting this.
Rich: again, both your comments very helpful & much appreciated, & your 2nd
one probably made my decision for me - thanks again! (see below for McAfee!)
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No probs :-)
Re McAfee - had it for around one single week when I got my first PC, as it
was recommended by the manufacturer. But even as a complete beginner I
loathed & mistrusted it,
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I just didn't like it, plus they used to try and charge you a ton of
cash yearly for subscriptions. Luckily I formatted and reinstalled
often back in the days of Win95, so it reset the subscription on each
reinstall ;-)
& went to down the local electrical store & handed
over the absurd asking price for a copy of NAV. A cynic might well wonder
how much of their budget McAfee have to set aside as a slush-fund to provide
sweeteners for all the PC manufacturers & software reviewers who recommend
it so highly.....
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Simple; it's easier to profit from AV software you sell, than by
recommending free stuff (AVG6) or stuff you buy off the net (AVG7).
 
TO all those using AVG (and I have for years and it's never let me
down)...

I switched my mail client for Outlook to Mozilla. AVG doesn't seem to
support email checking in Mozilla. Is there a work-around?


Grant
 
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