Panda Anti-Virus vs. AVG Free

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I am planning to install a new antivirus on my computer, but I cant decide.
which is the one that is a good antivirus?

-Panda Antivirus Platinum
-AVG Free
 
It depends on your computer specs. Previous versions of Panda Antivirus have
been excellent products, relatively lightweight and efficient, but the
latest uses alot of memory and may slow down your computer considerably. So
unless you have at least 512 mb of RAM and a relatively fast processor, I
would choose another antivirus.

Jon
 
edgarperrito said:
I am planning to install a new antivirus on my computer, but I cant
decide. which is the one that is a good antivirus?

-Panda Antivirus Platinum
-AVG Free
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You'll find proponents of both here, as well as others. I personally use and
like Avast.
 
I use AVG because it's light on resources but from other reports Avast is
similar and also free. Neither will work on W2003 server versions though :)

Big difference between the AVG free and paid versions is stuff like
autoscheduling, picking scan folders etc... I would never expect any
difference in the detection signatures for any of them, just versatility.

Charlie
 
I agree with Kenny, use Avast Free. AVG Free didn't detect a virus when I
used it so I dont't trust it
 
No AV product will catch every virus every time. All of them will miss one
at odd, unpredicatable times. Much depends on the definition file in use,
frequncy of updates, user habits, and program configuration. To base an
assessment on one missed bug would be like not using windows because it it
crashed once (hint: linux crashes too).

As to the question, there is no "best" AV product. To me, the "best" one is
the one that the user is comfortable with and provides a reasonable ease of
updating and use without bogging down the system.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
Doesn't matter which one you choose. Just recently, I had a customer
who was "Fully(?)" protected, if that's possible. He happened to pick
up what's called a "Zero Day Threat". That means a new virus that isn't
known to the AV companies and so it won't be in their definitions data.
Unless you have some type of "Suspicious" detection in your product,
you can get infected by these first day threats. By doesn't matter, what
I mean is all of them have exposure to new infectors. Personally, I use
both eTrust and AVG. Even with those, I'll run on-line scans from a
couple of different vendors every week or so. T

And to give credit where it's due the definitions and the Security center
(SARC) at Symantec are one of the best. That's probably the biggest
loss with moving away from Norton AV.
 
I agree with you and Rick. Whatever the customer wants is what they get.
Now, however, I only do small businesses on contract. My main customer
has 2 servers and 12 workstations, getting ready to add 3 more. When I
first started they had Norton. The main problem with Norton AV is when
it didn't know what to do with a particular "suspected" find. It wanted the
user to make the decision. BAD MOVE. Most of the time the users would
panic and notify me. I also noticed that all of the different workstations
were
not equal when using "Live Update" to download the latest definitions. I
had
users do a "force" update at least once per week. I have been personally
using Panda Titanium in my personal systems (4 workstations and a server)
for a number of years. Love the Panda software. When the Norton AV's
expired for the main customer I put every workstation on Panda Titanium.
Even the employees love this AV. I elected to get the Panda Titanium on
a multi-license deal instead of using their corporate software that runs and
controls from a server (pain in the butt). It is sort of like the ad on TV,
"Set it and forget it". We still do a complete "Full Scan" every week.
 
All AV software has its ups and downs for virus detection.
Comparisons are a snapshot of detection of some virus or viruses at a given
time with a given set of virus defintions available at that time (which
change). These are also subject to user alterable settings on what to check
including heuristics level.
As long as you have an AV, in all likelihood, you're probably going to be
okay.

Panda has gotten as bad as McAfee and NAV by weighing down the system
performance. If you can tolerate that, use Panda. If not, use AVG free
version. In the latter case, it may take longer to get virus definition
updates. Your choice.
 
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