AVG 8.0 free edition, what's your verdict??

I have always been a big fan of AVG, an excellent free antivirus with a
pretty small performance footprint, excellent for older machines. Of course
with the exponential growth of spyware, a single anti virus is no longer
enough, but the free anti spyware by avg is also an excellent product. So, i
was quite pleased when AVG 8.0 was announced, as it unites the anti spyware
and anti virus database.

However, it seems that avg have subcontracted out the programming to
Symantec as the software is incredibly slow and takes, on my machine (1.6
centrino 1gb of ram) over three hours to do a scan, compared to about 35 to
50 mins on avg 7.5.

It is not only slow to run but a resource hog in itself. I feel i can no
longer recommend what was an excellent product to people. Anyone got any
alternatives???

Gaz

 

Is avast ok by default, in terms of configuration, does it do the job
without having to tinker it? Quick on site installation is a must........
Doesnt it need to be registered as well?

Gaz

 

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It does require registration, but you can use it for about 30 days
unregistered - which is about how long it takes to work out where to
enter the registration code in the appalling GUI.

IME it doesn't do a very good job of preventing infections and you have
to rely on the scans. Inevitably it won't remove anything while running
in normal mode (why can't they kill off the dodgy processes holding the
files open?) so you have to perform a boot-time scan - of the entire
system again, because the ordinary scan doesn't have the sense to save a
list of what needs removing for it.

People seem to have rather low standards of what they expect from
anti-malware.

 

"Quick on site installation is a must"

On what fucking "site" are you on about ? Your Mums' or your Sisters' ?

Why can't you install from "off site" if you are admin in charge of AV ?

If you're on about proper "on site" why the **** are you asking about AV ?

 

You are not quite aware of the scenario in which i operate.

Gaz

 

Judging by your inane rembling I doubt that you are aware of the scenario
in which you operate in relation to the reality which surrounds you.

 

Poor thrust.

Here comes the science (My Parry)

Quite

 

Agreed. Spybot is a good addition to your list.

 

I did much the same. However, annoyingly, the toolbar icon now shows an
exclamation mark, as if there is something wrong, simply because I disabled
one of the features. That means that I won't know if there really is
something wrong. Damn stupid, and I'm looking around for a replacement.

 

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Earlier releases of Ad-aware were okay. Latest release is a pain in the
bum.

Windows Defender: well, it's written by M$. Say no more!

 

Pretty sure. I have the icon showing in the notification/status area of the
taskbar- you know the bit next to the clock (bottom right, unless you moved
the taskbar)