AVG Pro, Avast or F-secure?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Adriano
  • Start date Start date
A

Adriano

Hi,
I'd like to know your opinion about these antivirus:
AVG Pro, Avast or F-secure.
In your opinion, which is the best?
Thanks

bye Adriano
 
AVG Pro, Avast or F-secure.

Very pleased with avast!

Changed from McAfee, and avast seems smaller, easier to use, and works
well. The mail scanner and the free updated are very good.

And the most important bit. The support (even for the free version) is
great through their forum (http://www.avast.com/forum/). You can get
answers to everything, and be a part of the further developement.
 
Hi,
I'd like to know your opinion about these antivirus:
AVG Pro, Avast or F-secure.
In your opinion, which is the best?
F-Secure.

Thanks
Click to expand...

Your welcome. HTH.

Cheers-

Jeff Setaro
jasetaro@SPAM_ME_NOT_mags.net
http://people.mags.net/jasetaro/
PGP Key IDs DH/DSS: 0x5D41429D RSA: 0x599D2A99 New RSA: 0xA19EBD34
 
Hi,
I'd like to know your opinion about these antivirus:
AVG Pro, Avast or F-secure.
In your opinion, which is the best?
Thanks

bye Adriano
Click to expand...

On my older 500Mhz machine, it brings it damn near to a stop.

It seems to be faster on my wife's 2Mhz machine.

Outside of overloading the system on the slower machine, It seems OK,
but I'm still in the trial period. I doubt very much if I'll keep it
because of what it does to my machine. I don't feel like paying for two
separate virus packages - one for my wife's machine and another for
mine.
 
On my older 500Mhz machine, it brings it damn near to a stop.
Click to expand...

"it"? The op asks about 3 products. What "it" are you refering to?
It seems to be faster on my wife's 2Mhz machine.
Click to expand...

If "it" runs faster on the slower machine, I'll bet "it" is not the problem.
Outside of overloading the system on the slower machine, It seems OK,
but I'm still in the trial period. I doubt very much if I'll keep it
because of what it does to my machine. I don't feel like paying for two
separate virus packages - one for my wife's machine and another for
mine.
Click to expand...

Get a feebie for home use. There are some very good ones out there.

good luck with "it" ;-)
Dr.X
 
I'd like to know your opinion about these antivirus:
AVG Pro, Avast or F-secure.
In your opinion, which is the best?
Click to expand...

AVG: better interface than Avast, at least, for the main window. Mail
scanner not as good as Avast's, but far easier to configure, especially if
you use anti-spam software such as POPFile. Detection rate not as good as
Avast, but I suspect that they've fixed that along with various other
problems.

Avast: better detection rate than AVG (imho), excellent mail scanner (better
at removing dodgy attachments than AVG). Odd main interface, but background
scanner is more intuitive (sp?).

Never used F-Secure, so can't comment. I wasn't aware that any of the F-
products were free.

HTH,

Dave
 
That should have been "2Ghz" machine.
Click to expand...

Well, let's see if I can get it right this time.

I was speaking of the current F-Secure 2004.

I was using AVP for the last number of years and never had the "slow
down" problem with their ver. 4.x
 
T.T. said:
Hi, what are the good "freebies" for home use out there? Any
recommendations? Thanks!
Click to expand...


Avast is offering a free version of their software. They have always had a
decent product.

H+BEDV Datentechnik offers a free version of theirs too (although I'll admit
I have not played a lot with it lately and my German really sucks for a
Puerto Rican;).

Bit Defender v7 is kinda neat.

My favorite, AVG by Grisoft. Lately they've had update problems when several
new viruses emerge. Everyone in the world tries to update at once.

Trend Micro has an on demand online scanner. It's good only if the malware
didn't disable your connection. Also you must allow some of the IE plugins
to work (set them once for scan then set them back is what I do).

Bit defender also has an online scanner (same cautions as above).

Panda also has Active Scan. Another online scanner.

But for resident software, the first 4 in the list is where to look. Then
online scans for backup.

I'm sure there are many more but these are some that come to mind.

Remember, nothing beats good ol' common sense.
Dr.X
 
Back
Top