AVG Professional Edition

[mrSHEiK124]

I use AVG Free and I love it, is it worth buying AVG Professional?

Posts suggesting I use Norton AntiVirus or McAfee VirusScan will be ignored completely.

 

[cubby1223]

The only reason I've got professional is so it doesn't add the tagline to e-mails. Grisoft's site lists the differences between free & pro, so if you don't need those features, like more advanced scheduling options, quicker tech support, work on a 64-bit os, etc. than you're fine with the free version.

 

[SagaLore]

If its not espensive and you want to support that company, then go for it.

I used AVG for a few years, but eventually switched to avast!. Thats another great and free av. Actually, I now prefer avast over avg (but I haven't compared in a long time).

 

[Zolty]

Kaspersky is sposed to be really good.

I hate antivirus programs with a passion, I just keep a back up of my hard drives and scan it online once a month or so.

If you keep your pc up to date and dont download anything stupid it is my firm belief you will not get a virus.

 

[Vegitto]

Originally posted by: Zolty
If you keep your pc up to date and dont download anything stupid it is my firm belief you will not get a virus.

QFmotherfsckingT.

 

[pinion9]

Originally posted by: Zolty
Kaspersky is sposed to be really good.

I hate antivirus programs with a passion, I just keep a back up of my hard drives and scan it online once a month or so.

If you keep your pc up to date and dont download anything stupid it is my firm belief you will not get a virus.

Virus? By definition, no.

Worm? Absolutely possible. Many AV programs use heuristic techniques to evaluate and detect suspicious behavior for threats that are yet unknown and can block attempts to overflow buffers, etc. , or at least warn you.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Vegitto

Originally posted by: Zolty
If you keep your pc up to date and dont download anything stupid it is my firm belief you will not get a virus.

QFmotherfsckingT.

And it couldn't possibly apply more to anyone other than myself. I have never encountered a virus on any of my computers (HTPC, this desktop and any others I've had, and my laptop). But I'd rather be safe than sorry, what's 20 MB of RAM when you have 2 GB?

 

[Goosemaster]

1. it would be good of you to suport a company that has given you so much

2. kapersky is better, and you can now get it for free with the AOL sheild

 

[DeviousTrap]

Nod32 > *

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
1. it would be good of you to support a company that has given you so much

2. kapersky is better, and you can now get it for free with the AOL shield

I definitely want to support Grisoft, that's why I was asking, I was wondering if anyone had any good alternatives though. What exactly makes Kaspersky better?

And Goose, go grab Firefox 2.0, I highlighted the mistakes it found in bold

 

[Chunkee]

NOD32 by eset

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jC

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: DeviousTrap
Nod32 > *

Yep. NOD32 FTW.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

I don't need spyware, adware, and e-mail scanning stashed into my anti-virus program, NOD32 seems clunky.

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
I don't need spyware, adware, and e-mail scanning stashed into my anti-virus program, NOD32 seems clunky.

Install the trial and see. It has a very powerful monitoring agent, but it's tiny and uses very few resources. This computer hasn't been rebooted in the last 4 days and Nod32's memory usage is at 14.3MB.

As soon as an anti-virus program becomes marketed to the mass market is looses it's appeal to me. For example, Kaspersky, at one point in time, was a very slim program too. Now IMO it's slowly turning into a new norton, it simply uses too many resources.

 

[cubby1223]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
I definitely want to support Grisoft, that's why I was asking, I was wondering if anyone had any good alternatives though. What exactly makes Kaspersky better?

It's usually a matter of detection rate vs. resource usage vs. cost. I prefer the balance AVG gives, though the others (except Norton) are fine choices too.

Kaspersky has a better detection rate, at the expense of more resources and higher cost (not counting the free AOL version, I'm always skeptical of something bundled and provided by AOL, just read the EULA for example, strange stuff).

At the moment, AVG Pro 7.5 sitting in the background is using just 2mb ram between the 4 tsrs.

 

[Chunkee]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
I don't need spyware, adware, and e-mail scanning stashed into my anti-virus program, NOD32 seems clunky.

you have to be kidding right? are you able to use a computer? it is the least clunky and easiest to setup yet most power....

good lord..

post somewheres else if you are not going to believe what experienced users are stating

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: DeviousTrap
Nod32 > *

kapersky is the best

 

[cubby1223]

Originally posted by: DeviousTrap
As soon as an anti-virus program becomes marketed to the mass market is looses it's appeal to me. For example, Kaspersky, at one point in time, was a very slim program too. Now IMO it's slowly turning into a new norton, it simply uses too many resources.

That's not a good reason either to not use a particular program. Of course I agree that Norton is terrible, but that's not because it's mass marketted. I don't like Norton because it's a resource hog, poor detection rate, and the software many times is a huge PITA to install and keep running without encountering the occasional problem, which most often Symantec on-line help pages state it's a known problem with no current fix...

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: cubby1223

Originally posted by: DeviousTrap
As soon as an anti-virus program becomes marketed to the mass market is looses it's appeal to me. For example, Kaspersky, at one point in time, was a very slim program too. Now IMO it's slowly turning into a new norton, it simply uses too many resources.

That's not a good reason either to not use a particular program. Of course I agree that Norton is terrible, but that's not because it's mass marketted. I don't like Norton because it's a resource hog, poor detection rate, and the software many times is a huge PITA to install and keep running without encountering the occasional problem, which most often Symantec on-line help pages state it's a known problem with no current fix...

When a product begins to get marketed, a constant pressure to release new versions begins and eventually exactly what you're talking about is going to happen. In order for Norton to keep getting a steady revenue they have to continuously release new versions, each of which is a larger resource hog than the one before it.

There are some industries where constant updates will work (eg. Microsoft Office has managed to maintain its usability, even those some might argue otherwise), but anti-virus doesn't appear to be one of them.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: DeviousTrap

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
I don't need spyware, adware, and e-mail scanning stashed into my anti-virus program, NOD32 seems clunky.

Install the trial and see. It has a very powerful monitoring agent, but it's tiny and uses very few resources. This computer hasn't been rebooted in the last 4 days and Nod32's memory usage is at 14.3MB.

As soon as an anti-virus program becomes marketed to the mass market is looses it's appeal to me. For example, Kaspersky, at one point in time, was a very slim program too. Now IMO it's slowly turning into a new norton, it simply uses too many resources.

AVG is only using 11.2 MB of RAM, and I haven't restarted in 1 week 16 hours 21 minutes 49 seconds, according to mIRC.

Originally posted by: Chunkee

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
I don't need spyware, adware, and e-mail scanning stashed into my anti-virus program, NOD32 seems clunky.

you have to be kidding right? are you able to use a computer? it is the least clunky and easiest to setup yet most power....

good lord..

post somewheres else if you are not going to believe what experienced users are stating

Don't hate, it is clunky because I don't need all those fvcking components, I need AV and AV only.

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: DeviousTrap

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
I don't need spyware, adware, and e-mail scanning stashed into my anti-virus program, NOD32 seems clunky.

Install the trial and see. It has a very powerful monitoring agent, but it's tiny and uses very few resources. This computer hasn't been rebooted in the last 4 days and Nod32's memory usage is at 14.3MB.

As soon as an anti-virus program becomes marketed to the mass market is looses it's appeal to me. For example, Kaspersky, at one point in time, was a very slim program too. Now IMO it's slowly turning into a new norton, it simply uses too many resources.

AVG is only using 11.2 MB of RAM, and I haven't restarted in 1 week 16 hours 21 minutes 49 seconds, according to mIRC.

Originally posted by: Chunkee

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
I don't need spyware, adware, and e-mail scanning stashed into my anti-virus program, NOD32 seems clunky.

you have to be kidding right? are you able to use a computer? it is the least clunky and easiest to setup yet most power....

good lord..

post somewheres else if you are not going to believe what experienced users are stating

Don't hate, it is clunky because I don't need all those fvcking components, I need AV and AV only.

You can disable them. I just killed everything but the antivirus and it's at 13mb. I wouldn't have even noticed that it had any spyware filtering had it not been mentioned, but I can say that it's "Internet Monitor" has saved me a few times.

Just give it a try, it won't bite you.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: DeviousTrap
You can disable them. I just killed everything but the antivirus and it's at 13mb. I wouldn't have even noticed that it had any spyware filtering had it not been mentioned, but I can say that it's "Internet Monitor" has saved me a few times.

Just give it a try, it won't bite you.

Downloading it right now, you actually convinced me it's worth trying, unlike certain others :roll:

 

[Squisher]

You can get Kaspersky cheaper and it's a better program.

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[Pabster]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
I don't need spyware, adware, and e-mail scanning stashed into my anti-virus program, NOD32 seems clunky.

Then select "Custom Install" and de-select the components you don't want.

It isn't that hard, folks.

 

[dj2004]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: DeviousTrap
Nod32 > *

kaspersky is the best

:thumbsup: