AVG Anti Virus or Norton Anti Virus 2004

[Virtualbody1234]

2) He prob has a firewall and clearly isnt asking for one

Maybe you should reread the thread instead criticizing others.

Post #4 of this thread:

Continuing is it necessary to have a firewall. Will the windows internal firewall be enough or is another needed. If so can you recommend any freeones that do the job well and no need for serials or any crap like that.

Cheers

[Peerzy]

Maybe you should reread the thread instead criticizing others.

Post #4 of this thread:

Bah i missed that post, teaches me for being a smart ass

Also just to say i hate Norton and would never use it but the latest test shows that AVG preforms very poorly compared to it.

[peat moss]

Check back a few pages, i don't have the link but IKE posted a thread about it.

Yes peerzy I read that too, so who the FUCK do you believe ?

[Peerzy]

Yes peerzy I read that too, so who the FUCK do you believe ?

Maybe the results have been fiddled with how am i spose to know

[Virtualbody1234]

Bah i missed that post, teaches me for being a smart ass

Yeah.

[Mïcrösöül°V³]

I like norton, altho i use Mcafee enterprise ATM, but if resources are an issue get a faster PC with more ram, i have never noticed a resource issue with norton, cuz i have 3.3ghz with 512 ram (ram i have sux but still no issues)

[peat moss]

I like norton, altho i use Mcafee enterprise ATM, but if resources are an issue get a faster PC with more ram, i have never noticed a resource issue with norton, cuz i have 3.3ghz with 512 ram (ram i have sux but still no issues)

This reply should should be pinned. Cus it's the truth .

[Smith]

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[MagusDraco]

Eh...Norton system works 03 missed some viruses on my bro's comp (trojan actually). AVG got it. (probably'll just leave both of those on his comp though)

[Chewie]

Norton will probably find more viruses, but I prefer the AVG gui, and the fact that avg doesn't render your system unbootable(even if it has been uninstalled) if you try to install KAV instead later.

Oh and the protected wastebin is a piece of shite function too, if they still do that.

This is interesting.
I had SCS2 on this system and changed back to KAV5 a few months ago (heh, which missed 4 of the viruses SAV caught LOL) without a single issue.
I have a computer in my kitchen, however, that has been infected with several trojans (AVG installed, ladies n gentlemen), hotbar and CWS, on which SCS will not install (just rolls back half way through without notice) and although KAV installs, only the background service runs - there's no tray icon or kav.exe running and I'm not sure if it's protecting.

Whether it is protecting or not, this sutuation is not right and I cannot find a cause. I have scanned with Housecall, KAV, Spybot, Adaware, MS/Giant, X-Cleaner, Hijackthis and another that gave me instructions on removing hotbar reg keys. I have removed all activex downloads, emptied all temp directories (including to ones in localservice and networkservice), used regcleaner and AceUtilities to scan for faulty keys and manually trawled through the registry to track down anything odd.
This thing has beaten me at this moment in time.

Interestingly, I created another account and it ran in that until I deleted the original account (leaving just the one that XP boots straight into) and then it's pissing around again.