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 Which Antivirus, 2010 |
| Dash Rendar |
 Dec 30 2009, 21:05
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WHAT ANGER ISSUES?  Group: Gurus Posts: 5 422 Joined: 18 January 04 From: UK Member No.: 2  |
Well, it's a new year, and I thought it time to resurrect our AV poll. The poll includes free and paid versions.
In the past, AVG has always done quite well, while Norton and Zone Alarm have always been people's least favourites, generally due to system resource consumption, or general instability caused by these apps. I've recently noticed how much less system resources are consumed by Avast compared to AVG, with the latter causing dramatic performance degredation and disk access on lower-spec'd machines. That's basically what's prompted me to resurrect the poll. So, over to you guys! -------------------- The car in front... is in the way.
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| DippyDappyCow |
Dec 30 2009, 21:25
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Uber Jedi Group: Moderators Posts: 5 649 Joined: 25 January 04 Member No.: 10 |
I have always always always stuck up for AVG Free.. through thick and thin lol... Joking aside AVG has always been fine with me. It's found what it should, done what it should.. and generally I've been very pleased with it.
BUT Things have changed... why oh why can't they leave things as they are! Many people I know have to put up with CPU usage of 100% for the first ten minutes when they turn on their machine... and yep, it's AVG eating it all up .. grrrrrr. And since putting Windows 7 on my machine.. oh dear.... AVG has been a nightmare.... it was time for it to go. I have been trying Avast Free on my laptop over the last year and I must see I've been extremely pleased with it. So yep, I've now got it on both machines  and I'm extremely happy with it.Be careful with Avira - I can't say if it's changed but in the past (over the last year or so) although it seems to get a good rating, it does not have an 'email' checking facility on the free version. This post has been edited by DippyDappyCow: Dec 30 2009, 21:26 --------------------  *....... music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music......*Athlon 64 X2 6000+ (3Ghz), Asus M2N68-AM PLUS (NVidia GeForce 7025), 4Gb XMS2 DDR2 PC800 Ram, Sapphire Ati Radeon HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 PCIE Dual DVI. WinXP Professional (SP3), avast!, SUPERAntiSpyware, Kerio. Windows 7 Ultimate (64bit edition) Experience Index 5.9, avast!, Windows Defender (Spyware), Windows Firewall. Aspire 7003WSMi AMD 3400+, Bios Phoenix v1.10, 1.5 Gb DDR2 Ram, NVidia GeForce Go6100, 120Gb Hard Drive, 17" WXGA+ CrystalBite LCD, Philips DVD Super Multi double layer SDVD8821, Windows Media Center Edition 2005, (avast!, Kerio, SUPERAntiSpyware) |
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| chip |
Jan 1 2010, 12:38
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Jedi Master  Group: Gurus Posts: 1 712 Joined: 10 October 04 From: Scotland Member No.: 138 |
Pretty much what Dapps said, I used to LOVE AVG, was so light and nippy and now its a big fat pile of crap. Avast seems to work perfect in the background and I do not notice any system performance hits with it so it gets my vote.
-------------------- I'm broke, yet I still have more money than sense :blink:
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