Avg Anti-virus

[Hitchhiker427]

when I switched from Norton to AVG (I currently use NOD32 and love it), AVG found a bunch of viruses that Norton did not, and my Norton was up to date.

[muchspl2]

yea thats common
all the norton people swear by it till it completely fucks their shit up
you have been warned

[carquip@kazaa]

I agree boss, leave norton in the bin!!!!. Uses far too many recources & bogs ur comp down. AVG full or pir, I have never had a prob with & 3 yrs now. Very little rec used & faster than nort in my experience.

[longboneslinger]

Gotta agree with Much and the rest, NAV is shite. The last one I used was 03 Corp. I got a virus that f*@% my files up. After the clean up (Using some AVG toole) I tried to uninstall NAV. That was a worse headache than the virus. I had to download a special NAV uninstaller from Symantec, which is STUPID! Their product should uninstall it's damn self with no special tools required. Then to add insult to injury, I had to manually eddit the registry to remove what the special tool missed. It was just shear hard headedness that kept me from reformatting. My comp was screwed from wednesday till saturday when I could devote half a day to fixing it. Half a day wasted on Norton BS. I've seen it happen on other comps. Hell, I have family that uses NAV and I adamantly refuse to work on their comps for NAV probs.

As for AVG, I got 3 trojans using it. I now use Avast Pro off Suprnova. 2 and half years virus free. I also use 2 online virus scanners every monday night to verify.

I do, on the other hand like one aspect: I've made a few $$ working on Norton probs B) . The last was Norton firewall. Same uninstall prob. Made some nice cash-olla. Got'm on Sygate now. Damn, shoulda left Norton on there for some extra $$ on down the road!

Later taters,
BoNe

[manker]

Originally posted by [Spam]@16 July 2004 - 05:44
I want to know what's the difference between AVG 6 Free Edition and AVG 7 Professional Edition.

And looking on the Grisoft site, which version would be suitable for me?

* AVG Professional
* AVG Network Edition
* AVG Email Server Edition
* AVG File Server Edition
* AVG SharePoint Server Edition
* AVG Linux Email Server Edition

I'm guessing AVG Professional will be fine for me.

I just noticed that in this fairly long thread absolutely no-one has answered the original question of what's the difference between AVG free version and the pro version

I have no idea since I have never felt the need to upgrade. Perhaps someone else can enlighten us though, I'm curious too

[shn]

Originally posted by longboneslinger@17 July 2004 - 10:40
Gotta agree with Much and the rest, NAV is shite. The last one I used was 03 Corp.

There is no 03 Corp. Norton 2003 Professional maybe? Because Corp will uninstall through the addd/remove programs section. Many people think all Norton products are the same that is false. The corp version will uninstall with no problems. It's the bloated professional versions that do things like disable system restore and other stuff on your computer just so it can install.

[Chewie]

Originally posted by shn@17 July 2004 - 19:16
There is no 03 Corp. Norton 2003 Professional maybe?

Yes, there seem to be a lot of ex-users of the legendary Norton Corp AV.


Regarding the "I don't work on Norton installatioins"... I don't either, because the customers I have using it don't have amy problems with it.

[Hitchhiker427]

Well, even though Norton did not detect viruses that were on my computer and used a bunch of resources, I didn't have many problems with it.

I think the only time a really had a problem with it was when I transfered the contents of one hard drive to another, bigger one, and Norton screwed up on virus definitions. Norton is the most annoying program to uninstall it and then reinstall again to fix problems. Even if you uninstall Norton, it leaves crap all over your computer, and this crap prevents a successful reinstallation. So, if you don't ever intend on dropping Norton's, then it works just fine !

[shn]

Originally posted by Hitchhiker427@17 July 2004 - 23:42
Well, even though Norton did not detect viruses that were on my computer and used a bunch of resources, I didn't have many problems with it.

I think the only time a really had a problem with it was when I transfered the contents of one hard drive to another, bigger one, and Norton screwed up on virus definitions. Norton is the most annoying program to uninstall it and then reinstall again to fix problems. Even if you uninstall Norton, it leaves crap all over your computer, and this crap prevents a successful reinstallation. So, if you don't ever intend on dropping Norton's, then it works just fine !

No program completely removes itself from your system even upon an uninstall. That's what the registry and reg editors are for.

[Gilojeleia]

And zone alarm security suite? Ive protected my pc with Norton, but its too "heavy". Then i changed to avast but it crashed all the time. Third option was avg, but it let some trojan free. So I use Zone alarm security suite plus avg free edition ( 6.xx) and some online scan like TrendMicro Housecall.

Sorry for the poor english.