Testimonial - AVG vs: Avast

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Steve said:
In Norton's case, I'd suggest sloppiness - 5Mb constituted the entire
virus database, as opposed to an incremental update.




I'd agree that the control panel needs some logical tidying - there
are plenty of option there, just a bit disparate.
Once you've found them though, it's a cinch to set up.
It's a job I do just once - after installation - so it's hardly a
workaday issue.
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I'm thinking that Grisoft made it hard to find the settings for
autoupdate and autoscan so that fewer people who don't have the self
discipline to manually do either will be less inclined to turn them off.
I.e. I believe that the obfuscation of those settings was by design.
 
I don't even run it in the background. (Gasp!)
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well, i'm glad i did today. i downloaded a cracked file (gasp!). before you
get all up in arms, it was a cracked version of a firewall tester that
crashed every time i ran it, then told me i had used up my 10 uses. i only
wanted to use it once then put it away, so i didn't feel i was doing
anything wrong - after all, i had yet to run it even once successfully.
there was a trojan in the zip file and avg jumped on it immediately.
 
On 02 Jun 2005, glad i did wrote
well, i'm glad i did today. i downloaded a cracked file (gasp!).
before you get all up in arms, it was a cracked version of a
firewall tester that crashed every time i ran it, then told me i
had used up my 10 uses. i only wanted to use it once then put it
away, so i didn't feel i was doing anything wrong - after all, i
had yet to run it even once successfully. there was a trojan in
the zip file and avg jumped on it immediately.
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That's fair 'nuff -- if I was downloading a cracked version of
anything, I'd probably turn the AV on for the duration, too. ;)

(Cracked versions by definition fall into the "dodgy stuff" category
that I've so far managed to avoid.)
 
Ditto!!
I've been using Avast Anti-Virus for several years now and am well
satisfied with its performance.
Hopefully this thread won't degenerate into a AVG vs Avast flame war.
--Looker007
 
Steve said:
Even managed to shoehorn AVG onto a P166 laptop with only 64Mb of ram.
I wouldn't call that 'cumbersome'.
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P150 with 32Mb here. It actually runs a scan fairly quickly, and the
performance hit while running resident is negligible.
 
Well .. after much soul-searching, I made the switch from
AVG to Avast. I think AVG has served its purpose for the
free-world, and it's becoming cumbersome now. Avast, on
the other hand, has lightning and reliable connections to
its updating data and new versions, and it all works so
much faster and reliably .. IMHO. Perhaps others did not
have the same hesitancy I observed in getting updates from
AVG, but I do not regret the move now after several weeks.
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I was using AVG for the last two years or so, but it began to given me a
problem with turning the email scanner off by itself. Couldn't get it
to stop doing it, so I turned to Avast, which has worked fine so far
(but then AVG worked fine for two years, so who know what will happen
next week?)

Only thing you have to remember to do is turn off its sound or it will
be screeching a siren at you every time it finds a virus in your email -
and if you happen to be listening to music with headphones at the time,
your ears will explode...

It also insists on announcing every AV database update with a loud voice
- which it would do at 5AM in the morning waking me up - my machine is
next to my bed and is used as an alarm clock as well...:-)
 
Richard said:
Only thing you have to remember to do is turn off its sound or it will
be screeching a siren at you every time it finds a virus in your
email - and if you happen to be listening to music with headphones at
the time, your ears will explode...

It also insists on announcing every AV database update with a loud
voice - which it would do at 5AM in the morning waking me up - my
machine is next to my bed and is used as an alarm clock as well...:-)
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Both of these can be turned off.

Personally, I am running Avast! with the real time scanner only. The mail,
IM, P2P etc scanners only looks like extra bloat to me. No matter how a
virus enters your computer it will have to pass the real time scanner before
execution, no matter what. Also, I didn't like that I had to confirm each
kill manually when I got virus infected mails. During the worst Swen tempest
I got around 100 virus infected mails per day. Now, those are one hundred
mouse clicks I do not need to be bothered with.

As for sound, this can also be disabled. Fortunately. I never liked having a
movie interrupted by a loud "Virus database has been updated!", and I would
freak out if I also had to wake up to it :p
 
_Richard Steven Hack_, sabato 04/giu/2005:
It also insists on announcing every AV database update with a loud voice
- which it would do at 5AM in the morning waking me up - my machine is
next to my bed and is used as an alarm clock as well...:-)
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You can disable Avast sounds in Program settings...- Sounds (right click the
tray icon).
 
André Gulliksen said:
Personally, I am running Avast! with the real time scanner only. The mail,
IM, P2P etc scanners only looks like extra bloat to me. No matter how a
virus enters your computer it will have to pass the real time scanner before
execution, no matter what.
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Agreed.
 
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