Free AVG anti virus software

[Guest]

Without going into a lot of technicality jargon, I would like to know one
thing? Is the FREE AVG anti virus software any good? I have a friend who
says he has a clean computer and all the viruses trying to load onto his
computer have been stooped using the FREE AVG software. He said that he
wouldn't buy anti virus software, even if it WAS CHEAP which of course it's
not. Can I hear some good reports on the FREE AVG anti virus software?

 

[Jeremy Goff]

Without going into a lot of technicality jargon, I would like to know one
thing? Is the FREE AVG anti virus software any good? I have a friend who
says he has a clean computer and all the viruses trying to load onto his
computer have been stooped using the FREE AVG software. He said that he
wouldn't buy anti virus software, even if it WAS CHEAP which of course it's
not. Can I hear some good reports on the FREE AVG anti virus software?

It is an excellent product, I had trouble with Norton AV so uninstalled
that, installed AVG and ran a scan only to find an infected file waiting to
cause havoc.

J

 

[Ozmoz]

One of the best free Anti-Virus software programs is available from...

http://www.avast.com/

Regards, Oz

 

[TaxMan]

Is the FREE AVG anti virus software any good?

Yes. No AV catches everything, but AVG free is a good choice.

 

[Martin, VK2UMJ]

Without going into a lot of technicality jargon, I would like to know one
thing? Is the FREE AVG anti virus software any good? I have a friend who
says he has a clean computer and all the viruses trying to load onto his
computer have been stooped using the FREE AVG software. He said that he
wouldn't buy anti virus software, even if it WAS CHEAP which of course
it's not. Can I hear some good reports on the FREE AVG anti virus
software?

Depends on your idea of "any good". I ran AVG Free ver6 for many years and
found it to be a lot better than many of the commercial AV software.
However with version 7 came problems that many users experienced.
Eventually I changed to Avast (which also has a free version) and found that
Avast was not only finding things that AVG missed, but it was also taking up
less system resources to do a better job! A friend warned me for ages about
AVG problems and it letting virus's through, but I didn't believe him until
I proved it for myself....

My daughter runs an old Pentium 233 MMX with Win98SE and she said AVG Free
was a real pain to her, but Avast is much better, causes less problems, and
usually stops most virus's from even getting in. Those few that do sneak
through (it will always happen) are detected before any damage is done
anyway. Avast has had it's share of recent problems, but by far no where
near the levels AVG experienced when they changed to ver7.

Just look at the ongoing complaints on the NG and Grisoft forums about AVG
problems and conflicts -v- the same with Avast free version.

Anyway, that's my story and I was an avid AVG fan that tried to convince
many people to change over. Now I wouldn' touch AVG if they paid me!! Of
course there are still those that like AVG, just as there are those that
don't like Avast, but I for one have learnt to look at the bigger picture
and have tried several AV programs now - Avast seems to be best out of all
so far.

 

[Sanjaya]

Depends on your idea of "any good". I ran AVG Free ver6 for many years and
found it to be a lot better than many of the commercial AV software.
However with version 7 came problems that many users experienced.
Eventually I changed to Avast (which also has a free version) and found that
Avast was not only finding things that AVG missed, but it was also taking up
less system resources to do a better job! A friend warned me for ages about
AVG problems and it letting virus's through, but I didn't believe him until
I proved it for myself....

My daughter runs an old Pentium 233 MMX with Win98SE and she said AVG Free
was a real pain to her, but Avast is much better, causes less problems, and
usually stops most virus's from even getting in. Those few that do sneak
through (it will always happen) are detected before any damage is done
anyway. Avast has had it's share of recent problems, but by far no where
near the levels AVG experienced when they changed to ver7.

Just look at the ongoing complaints on the NG and Grisoft forums about AVG
problems and conflicts -v- the same with Avast free version.

Anyway, that's my story and I was an avid AVG fan that tried to convince
many people to change over. Now I wouldn' touch AVG if they paid me!! Of
course there are still those that like AVG, just as there are those that
don't like Avast, but I for one have learnt to look at the bigger picture
and have tried several AV programs now - Avast seems to be best out of all
so far.

I've never had a problem with AVG versions 6 or 7.
I'm always surprised by the posts indicating other users do,
since it's been flawless for me.

 

[stephen]

I've used AVG for several years without hassle. The latest version was a
problem for a couple of months as getting signature updates took ages, that
problem seems to be over with.

(After having used AVG for some time I was persuaded by newsgroups
posters that I should get a "real" avg program, namely Norton. This turned
out to be a disaster in that my computer kept crashing and would run so slow
I could take a nap watching the screen change. Worse than that, Norton did
not seem to have an advice/support that I could turn to. I made lots of
inquiries on online newgroups regarding the problems I was getting,
including not being able to uninstall Norton. Eventually, I posted the
Norton cd to Norton, with photocopies of all my newsgroup correspondence
for them to see. I did give Norton my address, explaining how many time I'd
tried to approach them, and I suggested that their products were better of
in the bin. Needless to say, they did'nt reply.)

Now have you ever seen anyone post such a thourough complain about AVG (or
any of the well know antivirus software.

 

[JTS]

Without going into a lot of technicality jargon, I would like to know one
thing? Is the FREE AVG anti virus software any good? I have a friend who
says he has a clean computer and all the viruses trying to load onto his
computer have been stooped using the FREE AVG software. He said that he
wouldn't buy anti virus software, even if it WAS CHEAP which of course
it's not. Can I hear some good reports on the FREE AVG anti virus
software?

Not from me.

 

[Captain Jinks]

Without going into a lot of technicality jargon, I would like to know one
thing? Is the FREE AVG anti virus software any good? I have a friend who
says he has a clean computer and all the viruses trying to load onto his
computer have been stooped using the FREE AVG software. He said that he
wouldn't buy anti virus software, even if it WAS CHEAP which of course it's
not. Can I hear some good reports on the FREE AVG anti virus software?

I had continual problems with Norton and tried AVG several years ago.
I've stuck with it and it's done a good job for me. Also very important
in anti-virus protection is Zone Alarm, which has quarantined virus
attachments in emails several days before the AV companies identified
the new virus. You can't have too much protection nowadays.

 

[Don]

I've used it for four years with only a few hiccups. Does a great job for
the price. Other with all these problems are either pushing their product
or are the perpetual whiners that exist on all public groups.

 

[Martin, VK2UMJ]

I've used it for four years with only a few hiccups. Does a great job for
the price. Other with all these problems are either pushing their product
or are the perpetual whiners that exist on all public groups.

Evidence of that have you?

I never whinged about AVG in all the years I used it, and I'm damn sure it
was never 'pushed', yet I certainly had problems after ver7 came out.
E-mail probs, resource probs.. Nothing serious I guess, but then during the
problems I decided to try some other free AV programs just to see what else
was out there. I had been using AVG Free for many years, not even looking
at others....

Whilst my daughters PC didn't suffer the same problems with ver7, she did
notice a massive difference in the resources used when Avast was put on
instead of AVG. She has refused to try AVG again as even before ver7 she
claims it used more resources than Avast is using, and as she only has an
older slow machine the problems were easily noticeable. Also, Avast found
and cleared 3 virus infections that AVG had not been detecting, even though
it was checked for updates daily... Another virus AVG did detect, every
daily scan for a month, but did nothing about it at all.. Avast very
promptly removed it on the very first scan (the one it did *before* it
updated the database...)

Another friend of mine was suffering problems but couldn't understand why -
his always up-to-date AVG Free never found anything of concern. He
installed Avast and did a scan, and cleared the 5 virus infections that
Avast found and removed, but that AVG had been missing.. His problems
stopped. Is this a coincidence???

A number of associates of another friend, who is a computer tech, have
reported several problems with AVG not detecting virus's or letting them
in - virus's that other free and commercial software was detecting and
stopping no problems. He was finding a number of machines that users were
experiencing unknown 'problems' that, after a scan using various other AV
software, all were found to have virus problems that AVG was not detecting
or was detecting but was not removing.. Are these also just 'whingers'???

I'm really glad you have found AVG to meet your needs, but please don't
criticise those that have decided to improve their protection by dumping an
obviously faulty free AV program. Of course, maybe you are just easily
satisfied and *believe* all is well - I am happy for you....

Nothing works 100% but I have seen far, far, far more complaints lately
about AVG than I have about any other free AV... I am sure that not all of
these are misguided souls out for a mere whinge, although no doubt some may
be... Where there is smoke, there often is also fire..........

 

[Peter]

Evidence of that have you?

I never whinged about AVG in all the years I used it, and I'm damn sure it
was never 'pushed', yet I certainly had problems after ver7 came out.
E-mail probs, resource probs.. Nothing serious I guess, but then during the
problems I decided to try some other free AV programs just to see what else
was out there. I had been using AVG Free for many years, not even looking
at others....

snip
The woed is "Whine" not "Whing"
Whine
To utter a plaintive, high-pitched, protracted sound, as in pain,
fear, supplication, or complaint.
To complain or protest in a childish fashion.
To produce a sustained noise of relatively high pitch: jet engines
whining

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

The woed is "Whine" not "Whing"

Actually, in present tense, the woed is whinge. Past tense adds the
"d". http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=whinge

Perhaps Martin is British, where whinge is most common. Oh by the way,
I love it when someone posts about a speeling misteak and misspeels
one of their own. <lol> "woed!"

 

[Peter]

Actually, in present tense, the woed is whinge. Past tense adds the
"d". http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=whinge

Perhaps Martin is British, where whinge is most common. Oh by the way,
I love it when someone posts about a speeling misteak and misspeels
one of their own. <lol> "woed!"

That was a typo, the whing was constant just as in your "misteak" was
a typo? Smile

 

[Peter]

Actually, in present tense, the woed is whinge. Past tense adds the
"d". http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=whinge

Perhaps Martin is British, where whinge is most common. Oh by the way,
I love it when someone posts about a speeling misteak and misspeels
one of their own. <lol> "woed!"

Oh and "mispeels"

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:05:44 -0500, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"


That was a typo,

Nevertheless, it is funny. Frequent posts about the spelling errors of
others contain errors of their own. Typo or not ...

the whing was constant just as in your "misteak" was a typo? Smile

Oh and "mispeels" [misspeels]

It's not "whing" - it's "whinge." Martin spelled it correctly. And
obviously, my speel, misspeel, and misteak were intentional.

Like people frequent write: damn speelchekur!

 

[Peter]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:05:44 -0500, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"


That was a typo,

Nevertheless, it is funny. Frequent posts about the spelling errors of
others contain errors of their own. Typo or not ...

the whing was constant just as in your "misteak" was a typo? Smile

Oh and "mispeels" [misspeels]

It's not "whing" - it's "whinge." Martin spelled it correctly. And
obviously, my speel, misspeel, and misteak were intentional.

Like people frequent write: damn speelchekur!

Thanks anyway, I deserved the slap as I had taken the trouble to go to
dictionary.com to check "whine" and was too lazy to look for "whinge".
My wife informed me that there was a lady at work who constantly had
to defend herself for the use of "whinge"

 

[Martin, VK2UMJ]

snip
The woed is "Whine" not "Whing"
Whine
To utter a plaintive, high-pitched, protracted sound, as in pain,
fear, supplication, or complaint.
To complain or protest in a childish fashion.
To produce a sustained noise of relatively high pitch: jet engines
whining

Ahh - I see YOU are evidence that those perpetual whiners do actually
exist....

 

[Martin, VK2UMJ]

**REPOSTED TO SATISFY THE PERPETUAL WHINING OF THE PEDANTIC THAT HAVE FAR
TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR PATHETIC LITTLE HANDS**

I've used it for four years with only a few hiccups. Does a great job for
the price. Other with all these problems are either pushing their product
or are the perpetual whiners that exist on all public groups.

Evidence of that have you?

I never *whined* about AVG in all the years I used it, and I'm damn sure it
was never 'pushed', yet I certainly had problems after ver7 came out.
E-mail probs, resource probs.. Nothing serious I guess, but then during the
problems I decided to try some other free AV programs just to see what else
was out there. I had been using AVG Free for many years, not even looking
at others....

Whilst my daughters PC didn't suffer the same problems with ver7, she did
notice a massive difference in the resources used when Avast was put on
instead of AVG. She has refused to try AVG again as even before ver7 she
claims it used more resources than Avast is using, and as she only has an
older slow machine the problems were easily noticeable. Also, Avast found
and cleared 3 virus infections that AVG had not been detecting, even though
it was checked for updates daily... Another virus AVG did detect, every
daily scan for a month, but did nothing about it at all.. Avast very
promptly removed it on the very first scan (the one it did *before* it
updated the database...)

Another friend of mine was suffering problems but couldn't understand why -
his always up-to-date AVG Free never found anything of concern. He
installed Avast and did a scan, and cleared the 5 virus infections that
Avast found and removed, but that AVG had been missing.. His problems
stopped. Is this a coincidence???

A number of associates of another friend, who is a computer tech, have
reported several problems with AVG not detecting virus's or letting them
in - virus's that other free and commercial software was detecting and
stopping no problems. He was finding a number of machines that users were
experiencing unknown 'problems' that, after a scan using various other AV
software, all were found to have virus problems that AVG was not detecting
or was detecting but was not removing.. Are these also just 'whingers'???

I'm really glad you have found AVG to meet your needs, but please don't
criticise those that have decided to improve their protection by dumping an
obviously faulty free AV program. Of course, maybe you are just easily
satisfied and *believe* all is well - I am happy for you....

Nothing works 100% but I have seen far, far, far more complaints lately
about AVG than I have about any other free AV... I am sure that not all of
these are misguided souls out for a mere *whine*, although no doubt some may
be... Where there is smoke, there often is also fire..........

 

[She - Devil]

Nevertheless, it is funny. Frequent posts about the spelling errors of
others contain errors of their own. Typo or not ...

the whing was constant just as in your "misteak" was a typo? Smile

Oh and "mispeels" [misspeels]

It's not "whing" - it's "whinge." Martin spelled it correctly. And
obviously, my speel, misspeel, and misteak were intentional.

Like people frequent write: damn speelchekur!

Thanks anyway, I deserved the slap as I had taken the trouble to go to
dictionary.com to check "whine" and was too lazy to look for "whinge".
My wife informed me that there was a lady at work who constantly had
to defend herself for the use of "whinge"

Sowwy, Test!

love ya all