Alternative to AVG

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I’m looking for a alternative to AVG. Any experiences? Maybe Avast! Home, or AntiVir Personal Edition?

I appreciate any input
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I’ve used Avast! Home for a couple years without any problems. Seems to work just fine.

Joe

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I’ve used Avast! Home for a couple years without any problems. Seems to work just fine.

Joe

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I have been using Avast for over a year on two computers and find it to be very effective in detecting real or potential problems in my email and browser activitiess. I use Thunderbird and Firefox.
Avast checks for definition and program updates which it downloads and installs.
I would recommend that you at least give it a try.

Have a Great day!!!
Ken

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Thanks Joe and Ken for your replies.

I’ve downloaded Avast! Home and am watching it perform. I’ll post back to let you know how I like it.

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I gave Avast! Home a go and thought it used up too much resources. My Pent III 550 Mhz took forever to finish any task. Otherwise it seemed a good product.
I then tried AntiVir Personal Edition, but it lacked a mail scan feature.
So I ended up upgrading to AVG 7, which I don’t find as bad as I thought. When I first saw it at a friend’s house I somehow believed that there was some kind of interaction between the program and their server when mail scanning occurred (which I didn’t like), but that doesn’t seem to be happening. I would like to be able to disable the AVG certification in outgoing and incoming messages, though, as one could do in AVG 6.

everyone

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You still can – open the Control Center, click on E-mail Scanner, then in the bottom panel click on Properties, click on Configure and then Un-tick Certify mail under Incoming and outgoing mail. No more certification messages on incoming or outgoing mail.

The difference between Genius and Stupidity:
A Genius knows their limits.
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Hello Ed,

Thanks for the tip. I went through the settings but I passed this one by
Now it’s less intrusive and feels more like the good ol’ AVG 6.

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I found the e-mail component to be similarly burdensome. Rather than disable it, which greyed up the tray icon, I uninstalled and reinstalled without the e-mail component. I consider the e-mail component to be “fluff” anyway, since the resident portion will pick up on anything it identifies as a virus when it is accessed or “run”. Maybe it’s safer for less aware users, but for me (and I suspect you) it’s really just doubling up on what’s already there + your own common sense.

Alan

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Hello Alan,

I’m not sure whether you refer to AVG or to Avast![indent]

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I consider the e-mail component to be “fluff” anyway, since the resident portion will pick up on anything it identifies as a virus when it is accessed or “run”.

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[/indent]I thought that too, but since I’m not absolutely sure how AV programs work, I’ll just leave it on at the risk of using more resources unnecessarily in case I might be leaving a gap doing otherwise.
Anyway AVG isn’t so much of a burden as compared to Avast! In fact, when I get new mail in my inbox, what clogs my system a little is SpamBayes rather than AVG. But it’s much better than doing the job oneself .

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Sorry, I was talking about AVG. But yeah , each to their own.

Alan

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Thanks Joe and Ken for your replies.

I’ve downloaded Avast! Home and am watching it perform. I’ll post back to let you know how I like it.

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I have been using Avast for over a year on two computers and find it to be very effective in detecting real or potential problems in my email and browser activitiess. I use Thunderbird and Firefox.
Avast checks for definition and program updates which it downloads and installs.
I would recommend that you at least give it a try.

Have a Great day!!!
Ken

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