AntiVir? is it a good replacement for AVG

[Jess]

Hello,

I gave up AVG7 because it slowed down my pc (Why did they have to dump AVG6,
which was working very fine?). I tried Avast but after I installed it my PC
would not even boot! (I had to boot into safe mode to uninstall it.)

I am now using AntiVir, but I am not sure how reliable it is. It seems to
work fine and uses very little CPU power but it seems to be relatively
unknown. Any opinions or suggestions? By the way, I did some searching on
Google Groups and it seems there are some issues about AntiVir sending out
false virus warnings via e-mail...

My Specs:

Intel Celeron 2 GHz
Redfox U8798 motherboard (Via 4X400 chipset)
512 MB RAM (DDR 400)
128 MB AGP Video Card (Jetway ATI Radeon 9200SE)
40 GB Seagate ATA100 Hard Disk

Thanks in advance for your comments!

Jess

 

[Yu Jinfu]

I used AntiVir some time ago. It runs well on Windows XP Professional
SP2.
I recommend you to use it, because another reason is that it is all
free, free to download and free to update virus database.

Your PC is very good, so you can try some other better software such as
Symantic Client 8.1 or Kaspersky Antivirus, etc.

 

[Thagor]

Hello,

I gave up AVG7 because it slowed down my pc (Why did they have to dump
AVG6, which was working very fine?). I tried Avast but after I
installed it my PC would not even boot! (I had to boot into safe mode
to uninstall it.)

I am now using AntiVir, but I am not sure how reliable it is. It seems
to work fine and uses very little CPU power but it seems to be
relatively unknown. Any opinions or suggestions? By the way, I did
some searching on Google Groups and it seems there are some issues
about AntiVir sending out false virus warnings via e-mail...

My Specs:

Intel Celeron 2 GHz
Redfox U8798 motherboard (Via 4X400 chipset)
512 MB RAM (DDR 400)
128 MB AGP Video Card (Jetway ATI Radeon 9200SE)
40 GB Seagate ATA100 Hard Disk

Thanks in advance for your comments!

Jess

Are you running Xp? I've installed Avast on more than 6 computers running
2000 and Xp and not a glitch yet.

 

[Jess]

Are you running Xp? I've installed Avast on more than 6 computers running
2000 and Xp and not a glitch yet.

I'm running Windows 2000 (SP4). What happened was after I installed it and
restarted my PC, the PC just started booting but then froze (the hard disk
activity LED blinking). It had either crashed or was still doing system
configuration. But then after waiting for about 10 minutes I just decided
that if a program takes that long to configure itself it could only spell
trouble.

By the way I'm running Sygate Personal Firewall.

 

[Martin]

I'm running Windows 2000 (SP4). What happened was after I installed it and
restarted my PC, the PC just started booting but then froze (the hard disk
activity LED blinking). It had either crashed or was still doing system
configuration. But then after waiting for about 10 minutes I just decided
that if a program takes that long to configure itself it could only spell
trouble.

By the way I'm running Sygate Personal Firewall.

Had you told it to do the boot scan? If so it was probably doing a full
scan on re-boot which. naturally. takes some time to complete..

 

[Jess]

Had you told it to do the boot scan? If so it was probably doing a full
scan on re-boot which. naturally. takes some time to complete..

Hmmm... but then shouldn't it be doing that after booting all the way into
Windows? Or shouldn't there be an indicator to tell one that scanning is
actually going on? As I recall it was just a blank screen (right after the
Windows 2000 screen with the progress bar). Anyone would assume that the PC
had hung.

Perhaps I'll try it again...

 

[Thagor]

Hmmm... but then shouldn't it be doing that after booting all the way
into Windows? Or shouldn't there be an indicator to tell one that
scanning is actually going on? As I recall it was just a blank screen
(right after the Windows 2000 screen with the progress bar). Anyone
would assume that the PC had hung.

Perhaps I'll try it again...

Yes, you should get a scan window that looks like a DOS window. I think
maybe the firewall had it blocked for that initial scan and was making a
continuous attempt to access to the drive. If you try it again, allow
Avast access in the firewall. If you have Norton running, turn that crap
off.

 

[Thomas G. Marshall]

Thagor coughed up:

....[rip]...

Yes, you should get a scan window that looks like a DOS window. I
think maybe the firewall had it blocked for that initial scan and was
making a continuous attempt to access to the drive. If you try it
again, allow Avast access in the firewall. If you have Norton
running, turn that crap off.

Why is Norton crap? You may be different, but be aware that AFAICT many of
the folks who say this will not supply reasons why when I ask them. I /am/
running NAV2003 however, and not the 2004/2005, which seems to cause some
slow-down complaints, at least in this ng.



--
I've seen this a few times--Don't make this mistake:

Dwight: "This thing is wildly available."
Smedly: "Did you mean wildly, or /widely/ ?"
Dwight: "Both!", said while nodding emphatically.

Dwight was exposed to have made a grammatical
error and tries to cover it up by thinking
fast. This is so painfully obvious that he
only succeeds in looking worse.

 

[Thomas G. Marshall]

Jess coughed up:

Hello,

I gave up AVG7 because it slowed down my pc (Why did they have to
dump AVG6, which was working very fine?).

Are you running AVG with its continual protection on? (I forget what they
call it).

I tried Avast but after I
installed it my PC would not even boot! (I had to boot into safe mode
to uninstall it.)

I am now using AntiVir, but I am not sure how reliable it is. It
seems to work fine and uses very little CPU power but it seems to be
relatively unknown. Any opinions or suggestions? By the way, I did
some searching on Google Groups and it seems there are some issues
about AntiVir sending out false virus warnings via e-mail...

My Specs:

Intel Celeron 2 GHz
Redfox U8798 motherboard (Via 4X400 chipset)
512 MB RAM (DDR 400)
128 MB AGP Video Card (Jetway ATI Radeon 9200SE)
40 GB Seagate ATA100 Hard Disk

Thanks in advance for your comments!

Jess

--
I've seen this a few times--Don't make this mistake:

Dwight: "This thing is wildly available."
Smedly: "Did you mean wildly, or /widely/ ?"
Dwight: "Both!", said while nodding emphatically.

Dwight was exposed to have made a grammatical
error and tries to cover it up by thinking
fast. This is so painfully obvious that he
only succeeds in looking worse.

 

[Thagor]

Thagor coughed up:

...[rip]...

Yes, you should get a scan window that looks like a DOS window. I
think maybe the firewall had it blocked for that initial scan and was
making a continuous attempt to access to the drive. If you try it
again, allow Avast access in the firewall. If you have Norton
running, turn that crap off.

Why is Norton crap? You may be different, but be aware that AFAICT
many of the folks who say this will not supply reasons why when I ask
them. I /am/ running NAV2003 however, and not the 2004/2005, which
seems to cause some slow-down complaints, at least in this ng.

Norton is crap and that is my opinion after years of trying to clean up
after the abortions left behind rendered the user completely confused and
frustrated. Still, I didn't tell the user to get rid of it, I told
him/her to turn it off during the software installation. Thats all the
explanation I'll give you. If you need more, try Google:

http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=norton+problems+
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