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AVG or AVAST ?? The Berg 08-23-2005
|--> Re: AVG or AVAST ?? Beauregard T. S...08-23-2005
Posted by The Berg on August 23, 2005, 9:50 pm
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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




Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on August 23, 2005, 9:04 pm
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The Berg wrote:
> 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.

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.

--
-bts
-This space intentionally left blank.


Posted by jimbo on August 23, 2005, 9:18 pm
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I run them both (as well as zone alarm)


Jim


> 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
>




Posted by Tom J on August 23, 2005, 10:09 pm
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> 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

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




Posted by Dave Cohen on August 23, 2005, 11:22 pm
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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

>
>> 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
>
> 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
>




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