tivo-guy said:
What. You don't remember what you wrote? Anyway, I use AVG7 and it works
just fine. I wouldn't switch without a good reason.
I use to think exactly the same - was probably one of the biggest AVG fans
around. When AVG7 came out problems started that some users didn't
experience, but by looking at this NG and the AVG forum there seemed to be a
large number of AVG6 users unhappy with AVG7 changes. Certainly the new
interface in some ways was less user friendly, and the e-mail scanner tended
to cause problems (until the patch came out)..
All that was rather minor to the virus that it kept detecting on my
daughters computer, but didn't do anything about, and no it wasn't a trojan
or something you'd expect AV software to detect but leave alone.... So I
put Avast on and did a scan - not only did Avast detect AND remove that
virus, but it also found 2 more that AVG hadn't even detected...
Apart from that, I found Avast ran smoother than AVG - my daughter only has
a Pentium-233MHz MMX and she is far happier with Avast than she was with
AVG7, seems to be less resource hungry, and the e-mail scanner certainly
doesn't suffer the same problems that AVG7 did when first released!
Anyway - I guess it comes down to personal choice, but there are the reasons
that this long-term AVG user has now dumped AVG from 3 home computers after
years of using (and being happy with) AVG..
Cheers