AVG, Panda, PC-Cillin or Norton?

[John Blaustein]

I've just hard to reformat my HD and reinstall Windows XP. For years, I've
been using Norton Anti-Virus, but I don't want to upgrade to NAV 2004
because of what I've read about the activation problems. I can use NAV 2003
again, or maybe this is a good time to switch to either Panda Titanium, AVG
Free Edition or PC-Cillin. I only need virus protection, no firewall or
spam scanning.

AVG looks quite good. However, their website says AVG Free Edition can't be
used in a networked situation. I have a home network with three PCs
connected to DSL via a switch, a firewall and a DSL modem. I would use AVG
only on one PC and only to protect that one PC. It would not be protecting
other PCs on the network. Does anyone know if AVG Free Edition will work
under these conditions?

Thanks for any advice.

John

 

[YoKenny]

I've just hard to reformat my HD and reinstall Windows XP. For
years, I've been using Norton Anti-Virus, but I don't want to upgrade
to NAV 2004 because of what I've read about the activation problems.
I can use NAV 2003 again, or maybe this is a good time to switch to
either Panda Titanium, AVG Free Edition or PC-Cillin. I only need
virus protection, no firewall or spam scanning.

AVG looks quite good. However, their website says AVG Free Edition
can't be used in a networked situation. I have a home network with
three PCs connected to DSL via a switch, a firewall and a DSL modem.
I would use AVG only on one PC and only to protect that one PC. It
would not be protecting other PCs on the network. Does anyone know
if AVG Free Edition will work under these conditions?

Thanks for any advice.

John

Should work fine.

 

[John Blaustein]

Do you have any experience with AVG? Is it just as effective as NAV and the
others?

John

 

[Roy Coorne]

John Blaustein wrote:
....

Thanks for any advice.

....

You may wish to consult
http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?table
which is a recognized reference.

Roy

 

[John Blaustein]

Will do.

Thanks, Roy.

John

 

[Jean Luc Picard]

You should be able to run Free AVG independantly on each machine on the
network.

When you download an update, just copy it to the UPdate folder in the
GRISOFT folder
on the other machines and they will automatically install the update as well

JLP

 

[C J]

I Have a home network, with 3 pcs and have used AVG to scan volumes on
Shared drives. It shouldn't be a problem scanning from XP machine. Other
two PC's have Me for OS.

You should be able to run Free AVG independantly on each machine on the
network.

When you download an update, just copy it to the UPdate folder in the
GRISOFT folder
on the other machines and they will automatically install the update as well

JLP


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[anon]

Do you have any experience with AVG? Is it just as effective as NAV and
the
others?

I switched to AVG7 from Norton about 10 weeks ago just to try it out. I'd
always believed NAV to be about the best but I won't be going back .
AVG7 is faster , updates more frequently , integrates nicely with my email
client and has flagged up 3 virus .sss! so far.

It's much better than the version I last tried 2 years ago. A Free Trial is
available before you buy.

 

[John Blaustein]

Thanks everyone for your comments. Very helpful!

John

 

[renecubos]

NOD32...........
www.nod32.com

 

[Gregg Cattanach]

I'd use Avast way before choosing AVG, and they both are free.

Gregg C.

 

[John Blaustein]

I'll look at it, thanks!

John

I'd use Avast way before choosing AVG, and they both are free.

Gregg C.

 

[John Blaustein]

I'll look at it, thanks!

John

NOD32...........
www.nod32.com

can't

 

[Name withheld by request]

I'd go with Nod32 also
I've been using it for about 3 years, works great, stays out of the
way, dosen't suck up resources.

 

[Lion-heart]

Dont touch the AVG7.0 trial !! I got burned with it. I can neither
re-install or un-install this software. This, after it affected several of
my exe programs which I can no longer run (MS access, MS powerpoint and a
whole slew of other exes). No solution from the tech support after a whole
day's wait. I would stick with NAV, at least its stable and it works well. I
used McAfee, but dont like their online update program.