I am trying to decide to use either Grisoft's AVG AntiVirus (Free version) or
AVAST AntiVirus. Which of these two are better?

I had Norton AntiVirus 2004 Professional on my system, but Symantec refuses
to reactivate it. I had a computer replaced (case/power supply, motherboard,
and UPS) due to a lightning strike and now I cannot reactivate or use Norton
AntiVirus 2004.

If you are talking about AVAST AntiVirus Professional, I would give you a
green light compare to AVG Free version of anti-virus.
The AVAST AntiVirus Professional includes one very good feature, which is
command line virus scanning and removing process feature.

Hope you can make a correct choice

--
Kelvin Lin

"xpmark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:60A08109-51C7-4A19-903F-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I am trying to decide to use either Grisoft's AVG AntiVirus (Free version)
>or
> AVAST AntiVirus. Which of these two are better?
>
> I had Norton AntiVirus 2004 Professional on my system, but Symantec
> refuses
> to reactivate it. I had a computer replaced (case/power supply,
> motherboard,
> and UPS) due to a lightning strike and now I cannot reactivate or use
> Norton
> AntiVirus 2004.
>

I can't comment on the the AVAST antivirus from personal use, but it comes
highly recommended from various ISPs. I personally use the AVG av and its
pretty good, IMHO.

Regards,
Alain

"xpmark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:60A08109-51C7-4A19-903F-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I am trying to decide to use either Grisoft's AVG AntiVirus (Free version)
>or
> AVAST AntiVirus. Which of these two are better?
>
> I had Norton AntiVirus 2004 Professional on my system, but Symantec
> refuses
> to reactivate it. I had a computer replaced (case/power supply,
> motherboard,
> and UPS) due to a lightning strike and now I cannot reactivate or use
> Norton
> AntiVirus 2004.
>

I am looking at the free versions of AVAST and AVG.

Paying for anti-virus software is like contributing to a conspiracy. If
Microsoft would make a decent operating system, all this security software
would not be needed.

If other products would exhibits these anomalies, there would be product
recalls and vendors/manufacturers would need to fix them. With software, it
an 'oh well' situation. Apple's Mac OS X and Linux are good alternatives,
but Linux is not ready for prime time. Mac OS X on the other hand is a great
OS and it would easily replace Windows if Apple would allow it to install on
existing x86 hardware.


"Kelvin Lin" wrote:

> If you are talking about AVAST AntiVirus Professional, I would give you a
> green light compare to AVG Free version of anti-virus.
> The AVAST AntiVirus Professional includes one very good feature, which is
> command line virus scanning and removing process feature.
>
> Hope you can make a correct choice
>
> --
> Kelvin Lin
>
> "xpmark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:60A08109-51C7-4A19-903F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I am trying to decide to use either Grisoft's AVG AntiVirus (Free version)
> >or
> > AVAST AntiVirus. Which of these two are better?
> >
> > I had Norton AntiVirus 2004 Professional on my system, but Symantec
> > refuses
> > to reactivate it. I had a computer replaced (case/power supply,
> > motherboard,
> > and UPS) due to a lightning strike and now I cannot reactivate or use
> > Norton
> > AntiVirus 2004.
> >
>
>
>

xpmark wrote:
> I am trying to decide to use either Grisoft's AVG AntiVirus (Free version) or
> AVAST AntiVirus. Which of these two are better?
>
> I had Norton AntiVirus 2004 Professional on my system, but Symantec refuses
> to reactivate it. I had a computer replaced (case/power supply, motherboard,
> and UPS) due to a lightning strike and now I cannot reactivate or use Norton
> AntiVirus 2004.
>
well FWIF i recently had to repair a virus infected machine that had
Norton on it.
i updated Norton and ran a virus scan and it found and repaired *one* virus.
i then uninstalled norton and installed the free version of AVG...
AVG then found 7 or 8 more and deleted them...

Hey,

It's politically unwise for you to say this here.
We cannot get best of everything.

There will be both advantages and disadvantages for everything we have.
Whatever it is, MSFT has done quite well with its operation systems.


--
Kelvin Lin


"xpmark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:FFBC8E87-A1A0-444B-BB10-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I am looking at the free versions of AVAST and AVG.
>
> Paying for anti-virus software is like contributing to a conspiracy. If
> Microsoft would make a decent operating system, all this security software
> would not be needed.
>
> If other products would exhibits these anomalies, there would be product
> recalls and vendors/manufacturers would need to fix them. With software,
> it
> an 'oh well' situation. Apple's Mac OS X and Linux are good alternatives,
> but Linux is not ready for prime time. Mac OS X on the other hand is a
> great
> OS and it would easily replace Windows if Apple would allow it to install
> on
> existing x86 hardware.
>
>
> "Kelvin Lin" wrote:
>
>> If you are talking about AVAST AntiVirus Professional, I would give you a
>> green light compare to AVG Free version of anti-virus.
>> The AVAST AntiVirus Professional includes one very good feature, which is
>> command line virus scanning and removing process feature.
>>
>> Hope you can make a correct choice
>>
>> --
>> Kelvin Lin
>>
>> "xpmark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:60A08109-51C7-4A19-903F-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >I am trying to decide to use either Grisoft's AVG AntiVirus (Free
>> >version)
>> >or
>> > AVAST AntiVirus. Which of these two are better?
>> >
>> > I had Norton AntiVirus 2004 Professional on my system, but Symantec
>> > refuses
>> > to reactivate it. I had a computer replaced (case/power supply,
>> > motherboard,
>> > and UPS) due to a lightning strike and now I cannot reactivate or use
>> > Norton
>> > AntiVirus 2004.
>> >
>>
>>
>>

Well at least you got someone to answer you and you were able to say what was on your mind from the start

--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

"xpmark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:FFBC8E87-A1A0-444B-BB10-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I am looking at the free versions of AVAST and AVG.
>
> Paying for anti-virus software is like contributing to a conspiracy. If
> Microsoft would make a decent operating system, all this security software
> would not be needed.
>
> If other products would exhibits these anomalies, there would be product
> recalls and vendors/manufacturers would need to fix them. With software, it
> an 'oh well' situation. Apple's Mac OS X and Linux are good alternatives,
> but Linux is not ready for prime time. Mac OS X on the other hand is a great
> OS and it would easily replace Windows if Apple would allow it to install on
> existing x86 hardware.
>
>
> "Kelvin Lin" wrote:
>
>> If you are talking about AVAST AntiVirus Professional, I would give you a
>> green light compare to AVG Free version of anti-virus.
>> The AVAST AntiVirus Professional includes one very good feature, which is
>> command line virus scanning and removing process feature.
>>
>> Hope you can make a correct choice
>>
>> --
>> Kelvin Lin
>>
>> "xpmark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:60A08109-51C7-4A19-903F-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >I am trying to decide to use either Grisoft's AVG AntiVirus (Free version)
>> >or
>> > AVAST AntiVirus. Which of these two are better?
>> >
>> > I had Norton AntiVirus 2004 Professional on my system, but Symantec
>> > refuses
>> > to reactivate it. I had a computer replaced (case/power supply,
>> > motherboard,
>> > and UPS) due to a lightning strike and now I cannot reactivate or use
>> > Norton
>> > AntiVirus 2004.
>> >
>>
>>
>>

I've used both AVG and Avast and I prefer Avast. Both are nice tho ......
Avast updates automatically .....

"philo" wrote:

> xpmark wrote:
> > I am trying to decide to use either Grisoft's AVG AntiVirus (Free version) or
> > AVAST AntiVirus. Which of these two are better?
> >
> > I had Norton AntiVirus 2004 Professional on my system, but Symantec refuses
> > to reactivate it. I had a computer replaced (case/power supply, motherboard,
> > and UPS) due to a lightning strike and now I cannot reactivate or use Norton
> > AntiVirus 2004.
> >
> well FWIF i recently had to repair a virus infected machine that had
> Norton on it.
> i updated Norton and ran a virus scan and it found and repaired *one* virus.
> i then uninstalled norton and installed the free version of AVG...
> AVG then found 7 or 8 more and deleted them...
>

Anybody using Antivir?

http://www.free-av.com/



--
Jerry Wong

http://www.geocities.com/jerrywong.geo

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land. (Jonah 1:9)
"xpmark" <(E-Mail Removed)> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D:60A08109-51C7-4A19-903F-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I am trying to decide to use either Grisoft's AVG AntiVirus (Free version)
>or
> AVAST AntiVirus. Which of these two are better?
>
> I had Norton AntiVirus 2004 Professional on my system, but Symantec
> refuses
> to reactivate it. I had a computer replaced (case/power supply,
> motherboard,
> and UPS) due to a lightning strike and now I cannot reactivate or use
> Norton
> AntiVirus 2004.
>

I appreciate the feedback, responses, etc. on my questions, but I get
frustrated towards M$ because they are not correcting the virus, malware,
etc. problem. The malicous software and anti-virus software that Microsoft
is bringing out should not require a subscription nor the software itself.
Microsoft is demostrating that it can solve the problem through more
software. If they can do that, just fix the OS!


"Peter Foldes" wrote:

> Well at least you got someone to answer you and you were able to say what was on your mind from the start
>
> --
> Peter
>
> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>
> "xpmark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:FFBC8E87-A1A0-444B-BB10-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I am looking at the free versions of AVAST and AVG.
> >
> > Paying for anti-virus software is like contributing to a conspiracy. If
> > Microsoft would make a decent operating system, all this security software
> > would not be needed.
> >
> > If other products would exhibits these anomalies, there would be product
> > recalls and vendors/manufacturers would need to fix them. With software, it
> > an 'oh well' situation. Apple's Mac OS X and Linux are good alternatives,
> > but Linux is not ready for prime time. Mac OS X on the other hand is a great
> > OS and it would easily replace Windows if Apple would allow it to install on
> > existing x86 hardware.
> >
> >
> > "Kelvin Lin" wrote:
> >
> >> If you are talking about AVAST AntiVirus Professional, I would give you a
> >> green light compare to AVG Free version of anti-virus.
> >> The AVAST AntiVirus Professional includes one very good feature, which is
> >> command line virus scanning and removing process feature.
> >>
> >> Hope you can make a correct choice
> >>
> >> --
> >> Kelvin Lin
> >>
> >> "xpmark" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >> news:60A08109-51C7-4A19-903F-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> >I am trying to decide to use either Grisoft's AVG AntiVirus (Free version)
> >> >or
> >> > AVAST AntiVirus. Which of these two are better?
> >> >
> >> > I had Norton AntiVirus 2004 Professional on my system, but Symantec
> >> > refuses
> >> > to reactivate it. I had a computer replaced (case/power supply,
> >> > motherboard,
> >> > and UPS) due to a lightning strike and now I cannot reactivate or use
> >> > Norton
> >> > AntiVirus 2004.
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
>