Avast! Antivirus Questions

Two questions:
1. Does Avast! slow down your computer?
2. How does Avast! compare to AVG?

Lou

Lou wrote:
> Two questions:
> 1. Does Avast! slow down your computer?
> 2. How does Avast! compare to AVG?
>
> Lou
>
>

id say AVG over avast any day..

Perhaps you will get a better answer in the alt.comp.anti-virus newsgroup

B.B

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:01:42 -0700, Lou wrote:

> Two questions:
> 1. Does Avast! slow down your computer?

weeeelllllllll ittttt doooees mmmmmmiiineeeeeeeee.

"Chrissy Cruiser" <doublebreasted@mail.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:01:42 -0700, Lou wrote:
>
> > Two questions:
> > 1. Does Avast! slow down your computer?
>
> weeeelllllllll ittttt doooees mmmmmmiiineeeeeeeee.

> weeeelllllllll ittttt doooeesNNNNN'''''TTTTTTTTT mmmmmmiiineeeeeeeee

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:01:42 -0700, "Lou" <louisr@trip.net> wrote:

>Two questions:
>1. Does Avast! slow down your computer?

No.

>2. How does Avast! compare to AVG?
>
Haven't tried AVG...am happy with Avast.

Avast is a very good AV. I would say that it's probably better than
AVG myself. Some might disagree though..

Hasn't slowed down my computer at all...

"Lou" <louisr@trip.net> wrote in message
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> Two questions:
> 1. Does Avast! slow down your computer?

All AVs will slow your machine down to some degree when
configured for on-demand scanning. More often than not,
though, this isn't an issue with the speed of the computer or
a failure of the AV software (unless it's a Norton offering ;-),
but a result of below-par hard disks or decrepid IDE controller
configuration. Try making sure DMA mode is enabled on your
HDs (it should be). I've seen systems brought to a craw when
the IDE controllers are set to PIO when DMA was available.

For what it's worth, a decent boost (on an already clean system!)
is to disable on-demand scanning of opened executables, and
just scan created and modified files.

> 2. How does Avast! compare to AVG?

They're about the same, these days. Avast! has come a very
long way in just a few short months.

jimpgh2002 <jimpgh2002@nospamyahoo.com> wrote in
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> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:01:42 -0700, "Lou" <louisr@trip.net> wrote:
>
>>Two questions:
>>1. Does Avast! slow down your computer?
>
> No.
>
>>2. How does Avast! compare to AVG?
>>
> Haven't tried AVG...am happy with Avast.

And I'm the opposite, I haven't tried Avast and I'm happy with AVG.
When people get down to a couple of options, I don't know why they don't
just try both, and choose the one that suits best.
Usually I know in a few minutes if a program is a keeper or not.

bambam wrote:
> >>2. How does Avast! compare to AVG?
> >>
> > Haven't tried AVG...am happy with Avast.
>
> And I'm the opposite, I haven't tried Avast and I'm happy with AVG.

> When people get down to a couple of options, I don't know why they
don't
> just try both, and choose the one that suits best.
> Usually I know in a few minutes if a program is a keeper or not.

Actually, they're both good. I've tried each and lean a little more
toward Avast, but AVG is nice too. Best is, as you say, to try both
and choose..

> Two questions:
> 1. Does Avast! slow down your computer?
> 2. How does Avast! compare to AVG?

I am personally happy with AVast...

But its trial and error to find one you prefer