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Posted by sherwindu on June 25, 2008, 1:46 am
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Rick wrote:
> In the long run, I tend to agree with you that so long as the user is
> practicing relatively safe hex, any of the leading AV products (including a
> couple of free ones) should provide an adequate amount of protection for
> the average home user. On the other hand, the user requesting the
> information might be in a business environment, or might not practice safe
> hex, or has equipment and/or resource limitations with the system(s) they
> want to put the AV on, or are looking for centralized management
> capabilities, or have financial limitations, etc. Without a bit more
> knowledge of the specific situation, it's pretty tough to give really good
> advice to them.
>
>
If I were to generalize anything about some of the free versions I have
tried,
so far AVG 8 and AVAST is that they are poorly written. They are memory
hogs, slowing my machine down to a crawl. AVG 8 would not uninstall the
conventional way, so I had to strip it out. AVAST is also poorly behaved.
I
tried to register my copy and nothing I put in was accepted. Now I have
been
running the Virus Recovery Database for over 12 hours and it's behaving like
the Eveready Battery going on and on and on. It's a poorly written package
with
no feedback to the user as to it's progress. I think I will remove AVAST
and hope
it can be done painlessly. AVAST did find two Trojan Viruses on my machine
that AVG 7.5 and AVG 8 could not. Right now, without the VRDB running, I
estimated that AVAST was taking up about 35 percent of my CPU availability.
That's way too much. I don't know if there are other free virus protection
programs
that are less invasive. I'm a bit unsure about the requirements for email
protection,
since I think scanning an email at it's entry point may be more effective
than relying
on other programs to catch it. I am running Netscape for email on my Altos
1.3 gig
machine running Windows 2000, and Mozilla on my 2.4 quad machine with
Vista.
The AVG 8 runs better on the Vista system, but I'm wondering how good the
virus
protection is after AVAST caught two Trojans that AVG 8 didn't. I'm
looking for
a free anti-virus program that scans effectively and doesn't bring my
Altos machine
to a crawl.
Sherwin
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