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| Thread ID: 40218 | 2003-12-02 01:08:00 | AVG VS. NORTON | kimchi (3918) | Press F1 |
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| 196386 | 2003-12-02 06:23:00 | I've been using AVG (and installing for many others) for a couple of years and it works great. Recently got a trial copy of nortons and didn't really like it. Even on my athlon 2100 I noticed the affect on performance when nortons was running, while AVG is not noticeable. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 196387 | 2003-12-02 07:16:00 | I guess we all like free stuff. I use Norton, but wouldn't hesitate to use AVG. However my choice when I get around to it will be NOD32 which is not free but very good. Having experienced virus problems at work in the past, the cost of protection is well worth while and cheap. Cheers Winston001 |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 196388 | 2003-12-03 07:10:00 | In my opinion its horses for courses. AVG if you have no absolutely vital info on your computer, are aware and practice safe se. urfing, yes surfing, don't give out your email address to every Tom, Dick and Hacker, and generally keep a low profile you will be fine( as long as you update regularly. On the other hand if you do have invaluable data on your computer, surf with another computer. Otherwise take the resourses & $ hit and go for Nortons and of course still practice safe se etc. etc Most problems occur because of GULLIBILITY. Checking out attachments and links for unbelievable deals, pictures etc in emails can often lead to unbelievable damage. No antivirus can be TOTALLY up to date all the time, so using you head is also a pretty good additional protection too. |
Rod ger (316) | ||
| 196389 | 2003-12-03 10:55:00 | We use AVG pro (free is a disabled version of this ie no advanced interface, no custom scans and no scheduling) and it works fine on all our 98 and NT kernel workstations and I use the free version and recommend it to people as well. Sorry, I will disagree a little with a post here "it just qurantine virus. thats all in theory" yes true but it also heals and when it detects unusual (suspect disk writes) it will stop that action until user has indicated that its ok or given permission for that file to be healed. It is the value of disk write monitoring (which is real time) which is what I like about AVG, Innoculate was the only other free (no longer) virus checker that I knew of that offered this real time monitoring. | beama (111) | ||
| 196390 | 2003-12-03 11:11:00 | Nod NOD.... say no more | albatross (343) | ||
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