G
georgepenn4
I just dumped Avast. I installed it about 5 or 6 months ago. I do
not run AV software all the time because it makes my computer run too
slow. This is an older computer running Win98, and it's slow enough
as it is. Normally I run a virus scan once a week, and more often if
I suspect some website I visited was infected. I also scan individual
downloads, but just that file. I have installed AVG also. AVG seems
to work just fine, but it did miss a couple of worm files that I had
downloaded, which Avast found. These were considered to be bed, but
not extreme. I was not using them, just things I had downloaded and
forgot about and stored as .zip files. Avast also went crazy about a
silly prank file I have that turns the screen upsidedown, called
badday.exe (which has never done anything except make the screen look
goofy.
With all of that in mind, I think AVG might be missing some of the
viruses, but at the same time, Avast is a pain in the ass to use. For
one thing, it takes forever to load. Then it goes nuts over that
prank file which I know is nothing to worry about. But the most
annoying thing about it is that every time I run it, it insists that I
register it. This began after the trial period. I went on their site
and got the register number and installed it. The next time I loaded
it, I had to enter that number again, and every time after that. Then
yesterday it would not run even after I entered that number, so I went
on their site and got a new one. I immediately entered that number
and it said "invalid number". Even if it is a little better cirus
scanner than AVG, I am not going to put up with their annoying
registration crap any more.
I just posted this to see if anyone else has had this problem.
I suppose I should run a second AV program, besides AVG and my spyware
programs SPYBOT and ADAWARE . But what else is there (free only)?
Thanks
George
not run AV software all the time because it makes my computer run too
slow. This is an older computer running Win98, and it's slow enough
as it is. Normally I run a virus scan once a week, and more often if
I suspect some website I visited was infected. I also scan individual
downloads, but just that file. I have installed AVG also. AVG seems
to work just fine, but it did miss a couple of worm files that I had
downloaded, which Avast found. These were considered to be bed, but
not extreme. I was not using them, just things I had downloaded and
forgot about and stored as .zip files. Avast also went crazy about a
silly prank file I have that turns the screen upsidedown, called
badday.exe (which has never done anything except make the screen look
goofy.
With all of that in mind, I think AVG might be missing some of the
viruses, but at the same time, Avast is a pain in the ass to use. For
one thing, it takes forever to load. Then it goes nuts over that
prank file which I know is nothing to worry about. But the most
annoying thing about it is that every time I run it, it insists that I
register it. This began after the trial period. I went on their site
and got the register number and installed it. The next time I loaded
it, I had to enter that number again, and every time after that. Then
yesterday it would not run even after I entered that number, so I went
on their site and got a new one. I immediately entered that number
and it said "invalid number". Even if it is a little better cirus
scanner than AVG, I am not going to put up with their annoying
registration crap any more.
I just posted this to see if anyone else has had this problem.
I suppose I should run a second AV program, besides AVG and my spyware
programs SPYBOT and ADAWARE . But what else is there (free only)?
Thanks
George