AVG or AVAST ??

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The Berg

Hi .
I just found out about AVAST.( free 4 home )
It has fantastic reviews.
I use AVG free at the moment because it does not
slow my machine up like Norton Or Macfee did.
Does AVAST use much resources and should i use it
over AVG free ?
Any reviews , advise welcomed.
Cheers
Jeff
 
The said:
Hi .
I just found out about AVAST.( free 4 home )
It has fantastic reviews.
I use AVG free at the moment because it does not
slow my machine up like Norton Or Macfee did.
Does AVAST use much resources and should i use it
over AVG free ?
Any reviews , advise welcomed.
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Avast seems to be light on resources. One very good point in favor of
Avast is the tiny downloads of updates. 2KB to 15KB; yep, kilobytes.
It does not download the whole database every time. <g>

So far, in over two years, it has never failed to find a suspected
file I've pointed it at.

Updates come generally daily, sometimes more often. If you're online
on a cable/dsl connection, it will look for an update about every four
hours, and update in seconds. And it's skinnable.
 
The Berg said:
Hi .
I just found out about AVAST.( free 4 home )
It has fantastic reviews.
I use AVG free at the moment because it does not
slow my machine up like Norton Or Macfee did.
Does AVAST use much resources and should i use it
over AVG free ?
Any reviews , advise welcomed.
Cheers
Jeff
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When AVG changed his EULA that gave him more control over my computer
than I was willing to give up, I switched to AVAST. Thanks AVG!!!
Avast is fast, updates fast, and hasn't missed anything yet. There is
hardly a day goes by that it doesn't update & the updates are so fast
they are over before I am aware they started. You should be happy
with AVAST!!

Tom J
 
I switched to avast about a year ago, I like the avast updating, plus avg
insisted on telling me an old file I had contained a virus. The file in
question pre-dates win3.1!!! File in question was part of logitech mouse
developers kit, so it probably contained suspicious looking code making low
level calls.
Dave Cohen
 
The Berg said:
Hi .
I just found out about AVAST.( free 4 home )
It has fantastic reviews.
I use AVG free at the moment because it does not
slow my machine up like Norton Or Macfee did.
Does AVAST use much resources and should i use it
over AVG free ?
Any reviews , advise welcomed.
Cheers
Jeff
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AVG is great !!!
those other guys gotta be wrong.......

Mich...
 
Beauregard T. Shagnasty said:
What was the size of your latest update?
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Don't know .... it took 20 seconds to download... 10 seconds to install the
updates if that long...
(I'm not BS'ing)

Mich...
 
Mich said:
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Don't know .... it took 20 seconds to download... 10 seconds to
install the
updates if that long...
(I'm not BS'ing)
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Avast takes 3 to 5 seconds total!!
I'm not BSing either. If you haven't tried it, don't knock it. I've
used both!!

Tom J
 
The Berg said:
Hi .
I just found out about AVAST.( free 4 home )
It has fantastic reviews.
I use AVG free at the moment because it does not
slow my machine up like Norton Or Macfee did.
Does AVAST use much resources and should i use it
over AVG free ?
Any reviews , advise welcomed.
Cheers
Jeff
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- Easy on the system
- Painless updating
- Stable on my 3 xp systems
- Boot time scans
- VRDB allowing the 'repairing' of certain files
with earlier, clean versions
- Seems to have a good detection rate

I've heard of folks using both avg and avast monitors at the same time but
I've never tried it. Nex
 
Tom J said:
Avast takes 3 to 5 seconds total!!
I'm not BSing either. If you haven't tried it, don't knock it. I've
used both!!

Tom J
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Well, like you pointed out mines "Bigger" that would explain why my
girlfriend can't keep her hands off me.


Mich...
 
I switched from AVG to Avast when AVG began having trouble updating --
seemed like server problems. Avast is vastly better. It actually creates a
database of your infectables that it will use if it has to restore one. I
can't remember it running into an update server glitch.

What I really love about it is that it, when set on auto-update, go for an
update on bootup, and you can set how often after boot it will try again.

The variety of on-demand scanners and their settings it has is amazing.

And it's ready for Win 64.


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Ed said:
I switched from AVG to Avast when AVG began having trouble updating --
seemed like server problems. Avast is vastly better. It actually
creates a database of your infectables that it will use if it has to
restore one. I can't remember it running into an update server glitch.

What I really love about it is that it, when set on auto-update, go
for an update on bootup, and you can set how often after boot it will
try again.

The variety of on-demand scanners and their settings it has is
amazing.

And it's ready for Win 64.
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One more vote here for Avast!. I haven't had any problem with it and the
updates are seamless, (though it's a bit trickier for the laptop that uses
Internet Connection Sharing through my desktop). I seldom get a virus sent
to me, (Yahoo's junk mail filter prevents almost all of those), but the few
I've gotten it warned me right away before the attachment even hit my disk.
With AVG, I never was certain it was interfacing correctly with Outlook
Express.

It also has 7 different services that you can turn on or off based on how
you use the internet, (P2P, Internet mail, Exchange mail, WebFilter, IM,
etc.) I also feel that it has a small footprint and isn't a big drain on
CPU cyles.

Excellent product, in my experience. With this free product available I
have a hard time seeing paying for AV software AND paying yearly fees for
updates.
 
Cat_in_awe said ...
One more vote here for Avast!. I haven't had any problem with it and the
updates are seamless, (though it's a bit trickier for the laptop that uses
Internet Connection Sharing through my desktop). I seldom get a virus sent
to me, (Yahoo's junk mail filter prevents almost all of those), but the few
I've gotten it warned me right away before the attachment even hit my disk.
With AVG, I never was certain it was interfacing correctly with Outlook
Express.

It also has 7 different services that you can turn on or off based on how
you use the internet, (P2P, Internet mail, Exchange mail, WebFilter, IM,
etc.) I also feel that it has a small footprint and isn't a big drain on
CPU cyles.

Excellent product, in my experience. With this free product available I
have a hard time seeing paying for AV software AND paying yearly fees for
updates.
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Actually, ezAV is seamless as well and very light on resources - and
free for a year! Worth a try.
 
Sam said:
Cat_in_awe said ...
Actually, ezAV is seamless as well and very light on resources - and
free for a year! Worth a try.
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But it doesn't scan attachments unless they're opened.
 
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But it doesn't scan attachments unless they're opened.
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I think it does scan attachments - I recently sent myself an email with
eicar.zip attached and I'm pretty sure it did detect that on reception.
 
Sam said ...
said ...
I think it does scan attachments - I recently sent myself an email with
eicar.zip attached and I'm pretty sure it did detect that on reception.
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to reply to my own post, I just reran that test and sent an email with
eicar2.com attached. ezAV detected the "virus" and informed me of that
fact as I downloaded the email from the pop3 server. ezAV did not,
however, actually clean the virus. I know also that AVG does not clean
although it does detect in this case. If AVAST cleans or quarantines as
well, then it would be a clear winner on this point. Does Avast clean
attachments with viruses? If it did, I might just use Avast rather than
ezAV although, in the past (at least 1.5 years ago now, I didn't much
like the Avast interface.
 
Does Avast clean
attachments with viruses? If it did, I might just use Avast rather than
ezAV although, in the past (at least 1.5 years ago now, I didn't much
like the Avast interface.
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I use avast!. I copied the test string from
<http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm>, pasted it into a
text file. When I checked the file, avast! alerted and recommended
moving it to the virus chest. When I renamed the text file to .com,
avast! alerted and moved it to the virus chest when I clicked on
"Continue".

I tried to download the test files from the site. Avast! prevented
the download from starting.

Eicar.txt as an attachment was detected, several options presented
including delete and move to chest.
 
Actually, ezAV is seamless as well and very light on resources - and
free for a year! Worth a try.
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I was also something of an evangelist for ezAV. Had used it since it was
free and happily paid for it when it became a bought product.

But at the last renewal it insisted on updating to the latest version and in
doing so totally screwed up the whole system. Had to remove the whole thing
and emailed EZ who promptly gave a refund. I then decided to try Avast
which has been fine.

Then noticed the random reboots I'd been getting about once a day and
learned to live with all the time I ran EZ had stopped.

I liked EZ well enough and it somehow gave me a sort of reassurance in the
fact that it was a paid for product but Avast seems to do the job with no
hassle (apart from those stupid voice messages sounding like something from
a bad bible movie).
 
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