Moderators rridgely Posted April 25, 2008 Moderators Share Posted April 25, 2008 I am happy to pay as I believe you get nothing for nothing in this world. But on a serious note, these companies have invested a lot of money and resourses to protect pc users and I think it's fair to pay. I use Norton 360 and Threatfire Pro which work very well together. Regards DD. Pretty funny to see people quote stuff from when this thread was started(2005!). Freeware is one of the only times I think you can get quality stuff for free. Openoffice Firefox AVG Free/Avast/Antivir CCleaner! ect, ect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coronagold Posted April 25, 2008 Share Posted April 25, 2008 Yeah, I saw an episode or 2 of The Office as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDave Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Pretty funny to see people quote stuff from when this thread was started(2005!).Freeware is one of the only times I think you can get quality stuff for free. Openoffice Firefox AVG Free/Avast/Antivir CCleaner! ect, ect. Sorry, I didn,t look at the date. I thought I was replying to an up to date thread. Regards DD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted May 2, 2008 Share Posted May 2, 2008 I've switched from McAfee to Avast! now. Now I've switched from Avast! to PCTools Antivirus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SOULJA-kol Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 nod32 with c**** AVG when c**** is not working anymore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted May 17, 2008 Share Posted May 17, 2008 Well after being annoyed by Avira long enough I went back to fat old AVG 8. Avira had the habit of occasionally wanting to close down Explorer, though Explorer kept on running even after I hit 'okay'. Not very enchanted about that bug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 I switched from Avira to Avast like last week. AVG 8 looks like it sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 Well after being annoyed by Avira long enough I went back to fat old AVG 8. Avira had the habit of occasionally wanting to close down Explorer, though Explorer kept on running even after I hit 'okay'. Not very enchanted about that bug. Just go and get yourself a copy of AVG 7.5 and use until the end of the year. Hopefully by then AVG 8 will be transformed from a Norton wanna be (bloated POS) to a good light program again. Get it here http://www.filehippo.com/download_avg_antivirus/4029/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 Why didn't I think of that before. They're updating it through most of the year anyway. Oh, it's only thru May 31st. Drag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoKenny Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 Hopefully by then AVG 8 will be transformed from a Norton wanna be ( bloated POS) to a good light program again. I have some real good Land in Florida I can sell you. I un-installed AVG 7.5 on all of my systems and installed avast! Home Free and its working great. "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein IE7Pro user Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 Why didn't I think of that before. They're updating it through most of the year anyway. Oh, it's only thru May 31st. Drag. No they are supporting 7.5 until Dec 31, 2008. Here is the official thread from the AVG forums. http://freeforum.avg.com/read.php?1,123812,backpage=,sv= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 I have some real good Land in Florida I can sell you. I un-installed AVG 7.5 on all of my systems and installed avast! Home Free and its working great. What are you trying to say? AVG 7.5 runs at less than 2 MB on my systems. Never had an infection while using it. Never had a conflict with another program with it. Best antivirus I have used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 It is true that AVG uses a really, really low amount of memory compared to Avast, which takes up 20+ mb of memory even with 5 features disabled (including web scanner). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted May 18, 2008 Share Posted May 18, 2008 It is true that AVG uses a really, really low amount of memory compared to Avast, which takes up 20+ mb of memory even with 5 features disabled (including web scanner). Look at the post above yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 I did. I'm just saying that what you're saying is true. But avast! detects more things than AVG I think, because when I switched from AVG to Avast last year, Avast found a virus that AVG didn't catch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 A virus, or a cookie adware? No they are supporting 7.5 until Dec 31, 2008. Here is the official thread from the AVG forums.... Okay, but during a scan using AVG 7.5 today a pop-up came up & said only thru May 31st. Might be old news by now, but they never updated that pop-up since then. (And that's the 1st time I ever got a pop-up in 7.5. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 A virus, or a cookie adware? Okay, but during a scan using AVG 7.5 today a pop-up came up & said only thru May 31st. Might be old news by now, but they never updated that pop-up since then. (And that's the 1st time I ever got a pop-up in 7.5. ) Yes it's old news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davey Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 I did. I'm just saying that what you're saying is true. But avast! detects more things than AVG I think, because when I switched from AVG to Avast last year, Avast found a virus that AVG didn't catch. Hi Icedrake, Take Anthony's advice and put AVG 7,5 back on your PC.It uses very little RAM and rates .5% higher than AVAST PRO for On-demand. What good is having realtime checking with 20MB and everything turned off.Avast rates better for realtime but if its turned off why have it at all. I just hope AVG wises up also and offers what it provides now with AVG 7.5. Good Luck, davey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 Actually, I only use the Standard (Realtime) Shield and the Network Shield. I don't know weather I should change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoKenny Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 I like avast! and it works well on my 256MB RAM WinME, 512MB RAM XP Home plus 760MB RAM XP Pro systems. I have email, Standard Resident protection with Automatic database updates only. "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein IE7Pro user Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 Ok now I've just decided to switch to NOD32 since I read a lot of reviews about it and they all seem to say NOD32 is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 Ok now I've just decided to switch to NOD32 since I read a lot of reviews about it and they all seem to say NOD32 is awesome. Thats the one I would go with if I was paying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 Yeah, I've heard that it's one of the best AVs out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keithuk Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 But avast! detects more things than AVG I think, because when I switched from AVG to Avast last year, Avast found a virus that AVG didn't catch. I switch from McAfee (after 12 years) to AVG last year and AVG picked up on a virus that McAfee couldn't find. Keith Windows XP 2002 SP3 IE 7.0 Martin2k Rorshach112 is the best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 AVG is really a lot better than McAfee which was the first AV that I bought. McAfee and Norton are the top AV resource hogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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