AVG or Mcafee
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AVG or Mcafee
Just finished my years contract with Norton, not paying again so loooking at the free anti virus companines.
Anyone had a particularly good/bad experience with either of the two above, or a more informed opinion than myself???
Thanks.
Anyone had a particularly good/bad experience with either of the two above, or a more informed opinion than myself???
Thanks.
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Do you mean AVG not ACG?
I would categorise antivirus packages into the following camps:
Good
AVG
Avast
Kaspersky
Bad
McAfee
Symantec/Norton ("personal/home" as opposed to "business", and prior to the very latest release)
Indifferent
Symantec/Norton (latest release, and prior "business" releases)
Also, please note what I said in another thread - my recommendation is never to buy an "all in one" Antivirus+Firewall package, as that is a sure-fire route to hating your computer.
HTH
I would categorise antivirus packages into the following camps:
Good
AVG
Avast
Kaspersky
Bad
McAfee
Symantec/Norton ("personal/home" as opposed to "business", and prior to the very latest release)
Indifferent
Symantec/Norton (latest release, and prior "business" releases)
Also, please note what I said in another thread - my recommendation is never to buy an "all in one" Antivirus+Firewall package, as that is a sure-fire route to hating your computer.
HTH
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Be sure to download the Symantec unistall tool from their website if you decide to dump it.
Been using AVG for a while and like it, agree, don't buy/download a 'suite', just the anti-virus package. When AVG decides to scan go have a cup of tea as everything else slows up, but you can 'pause scan' and restart it too.
Been using AVG for a while and like it, agree, don't buy/download a 'suite', just the anti-virus package. When AVG decides to scan go have a cup of tea as everything else slows up, but you can 'pause scan' and restart it too.
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Incidentally, the thing they hide (and have been hiding further since version 8.0 came out) is the free version for home use.
It's http://free.grisoft.com if you want it. Make sure you click on the "free" version all through until it downloads for you (avoiding the marketing department's idea of getting you to pay for it).
Updates are free as well, but in 12 months time it'll prompt you to buy an update. This is another of their marketing dept's ideas to get you to spend money....just download a new copy from the above link again
It's http://free.grisoft.com if you want it. Make sure you click on the "free" version all through until it downloads for you (avoiding the marketing department's idea of getting you to pay for it).
Updates are free as well, but in 12 months time it'll prompt you to buy an update. This is another of their marketing dept's ideas to get you to spend money....just download a new copy from the above link again
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Antivir (Known today as Avira) has a very loyal user base, good detection rates (at least reportedly so in the paid version, don't know about the free) and is definitely the one I would install if for any reason I couldn't use Avast.
Avast has the same protection/cleaning in the free version as it does in the Pro. The other free ones tend to have features, such as detection, somewhat crippled.
What Avast cripples is the ability to schedule scans.
Hardly matters. Nothing is ever found, anyway. The protection is good. The occasional manual scan is enough.
Avast has the same protection/cleaning in the free version as it does in the Pro. The other free ones tend to have features, such as detection, somewhat crippled.
What Avast cripples is the ability to schedule scans.
Hardly matters. Nothing is ever found, anyway. The protection is good. The occasional manual scan is enough.
