Stereodude
Not really a
Which is better AVG or Avast? Or is there another free AV program I should be looking at?
Free Anti-Virus software
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CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Avast is better, hand down. But Antivir is supposedly even better. The only negative point of Antivir is that it failed the last series of tests from Virus Bulletin.
Sources :
http://www.av-comparatives.org/
http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=82&mnu=82
http://www.virusbtn.com/index
All the above was mentioned in the free tools thread.
Sources :
http://www.av-comparatives.org/
http://www.virus.gr/english/fullxml/default.asp?id=82&mnu=82
http://www.virusbtn.com/index
All the above was mentioned in the free tools thread.
Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
Stereodude
Not really a
And, how much is NOD32 going to cost me for 4 computers?
Edit: nm, I see it's $99 for 1 year or $148 for 2 years for 4 PCs.
ddrueding
Fixture
Worth it IMHO. NOD32 is really great; small footprint, easy UI, easy to install, no BS.
paugie
Storage is cool
I installed and continue to update the AVG in the work PC. I'll check out Avast. But how can something (Antivir) be better when it failed the test? Different parameters?
Stereodude
Not really a
I am curious about this as well. How is it be better?
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
You two haven't followed the links I posted above, did you?
Ok, open wide, pablum's coming :
Detection rate % when run on background.
Detection rate % when actively searching for virii.
Same link as above, repeated. No comment needed, ranking is obvious.
Clearer?
Ok, open wide, pablum's coming :
Detection rate % when run on background.
Detection rate % when actively searching for virii.
Same link as above, repeated. No comment needed, ranking is obvious.
Clearer?
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
Never heard that one before. This makes it clearer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablum
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I thought pablum was universally known. My bad.
Tannin
Storage? I am Storage!
I have absolutely no idea WTF this thread is doing or saying. It doesn't make any sense at all.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
I am going to step in and say something nice about AVG:
You install it.
It updates every day, on its own.
It does a scan every day, on its own (which can be obnoxious on older PCs)
It's vastly lighter in terms of system resources when compared to Norton/McAfee.
You don't have to fuss around with registering it to make it work as you do with Avast.
It's a fire and forget solution. That is a very good thing about it.
The only bad thing about AVG from my point of view is that it does not like being part of a prepared disk image, but that's something other people don't deal with.
You install it.
It updates every day, on its own.
It does a scan every day, on its own (which can be obnoxious on older PCs)
It's vastly lighter in terms of system resources when compared to Norton/McAfee.
You don't have to fuss around with registering it to make it work as you do with Avast.
It's a fire and forget solution. That is a very good thing about it.
The only bad thing about AVG from my point of view is that it does not like being part of a prepared disk image, but that's something other people don't deal with.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
How can you not see the link between baby's food and virii? Baby's food makes babies crap. Virii makes computers crap. It's crystal clear.
So next time you do your groceries and cross baby's food, remember that Antivir is your computer's diaper. Get it?
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And sorry for the broken links in my previous post. I didn't realize the pages could only be accessed from their web site's main portal.
Adcadet
Storage Freak
I agree with all of the above (I have no knowledge of the prepared disk image business), and I'm really happy with AVG.
Stereodude
Not really a
FWIW: Antivir seems awfully paranoid... It's heuristics scanner goes off from time to time over nothing.
Seems like every now and then, AVG just wants to stop updating and you have to uninstall and then install the latest free version. Any cure for that? Just got an email from my dad...it's stopped updating again even though I put the latest version on about a month or two ago (because it said to upgrade)...
paugie
Storage is cool
I think I know this.
AVG's update process will halt when it encounters a quirk in the internet connection. It happens from time to time. It coughs up an error message. One just has to try updating at a different time.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
Article about the basics of Antivirus software from consumerist.com.
The Consumerist is not a tech web site. It's a pretty interesting place for consumer rights information, and it's good to see some of the things we've largely been saying repeated there. I don't agree with the author's assessment of AVG but everything else seems right. It's a good thing to wave around to the idiots who demand Norton.
Also, Necro-thread FTW!
The Consumerist is not a tech web site. It's a pretty interesting place for consumer rights information, and it's good to see some of the things we've largely been saying repeated there. I don't agree with the author's assessment of AVG but everything else seems right. It's a good thing to wave around to the idiots who demand Norton.
Also, Necro-thread FTW!
Recently, I found a free version of Kaspery that I've been recomending:
AOL Active Virus Shield. I've been having very good luck with it.
AOL Active Virus Shield. I've been having very good luck with it.
Adcadet
Storage Freak
Ironic, since many consider AOL to be a virus in and of itself.
How well do AV programs do in detecting unknown virii?
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...outdo-those-of-symantec-mcafee-microsoft.html
NOD it is
..."The test looked at 17 different products, including offerings from Symantec, McAfee, AVG, Kaspersky, and Microsoft, and tested how well releases dated February 2 (with no updates) fared against a swath of new malware—viruses, scripts, trojans, and other nasties—that were discovered between February 2 and May 2. Related Stories
The winner of this antivirus sweepstakes was a product called Avira, which managed to detect and defeat 71 percent of the unknown malware. Right behind it was the equally-obscure NOD32, which swept away 68 percent of the threats. The more well-known commercial products fared more poorly. Norton Antivirus and McAfee tied at a mere 24 percent, while Microsoft's OneCare did even worse by only identifying 18 percent of the new threats. Resting at the bottom of the barrel were Kaspersky and eScan at nine percent, and AVG, which detected only eight percent of malicious software in addition to producing many false positives."...
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...outdo-those-of-symantec-mcafee-microsoft.html
NOD it is
..."The test looked at 17 different products, including offerings from Symantec, McAfee, AVG, Kaspersky, and Microsoft, and tested how well releases dated February 2 (with no updates) fared against a swath of new malware—viruses, scripts, trojans, and other nasties—that were discovered between February 2 and May 2. Related Stories
The winner of this antivirus sweepstakes was a product called Avira, which managed to detect and defeat 71 percent of the unknown malware. Right behind it was the equally-obscure NOD32, which swept away 68 percent of the threats. The more well-known commercial products fared more poorly. Norton Antivirus and McAfee tied at a mere 24 percent, while Microsoft's OneCare did even worse by only identifying 18 percent of the new threats. Resting at the bottom of the barrel were Kaspersky and eScan at nine percent, and AVG, which detected only eight percent of malicious software in addition to producing many false positives."...
mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
We live in an imperfect world indeed.