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Major software switch - Dropping Grisoft's AVG and trying out Avast!
By Andrew Pollack on 07/29/2008 at 10:53 PM EDTI used to love AVG, the free anti-virus software. Each version has gotten worse however, not better. The latest changes have it so intrusive that I've decided to drop it. On recommendation, I'm trying Avast! and from what I can tell, it is much more powerful, much less obtrusive, and seems to use less system resources.
I was able to quickly configure it to watch my P2P connections, instant message session, smtp & pop mail sessions, and of course in memory viruses -- but also to leave my Notes data alone. I have other protection for that.
So far, I'm very impressed.
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re: Major software switch - Dropping Grisoft's AVG and trying out Avast!By Richard Schwartz on07/30/2008 at 12:18 AM EDT
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re: Major software switch - Dropping Grisoft's AVG and trying out Avast!By Gary Cousins on07/30/2008 at 02:10 AM EDT
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The GUI for the manual scanner is truly oddBy Andrew Pollack on07/30/2008 at 05:30 PM EDT
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re: Major software switch - Dropping Grisoft's AVG and trying out Avast!By Lars Berntrop-Bos on07/30/2008 at 04:17 AM EDT
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re: Major software switch - Dropping Grisoft's AVG and trying out Avast!By Timothy Briley on07/30/2008 at 09:45 AM EDT
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I'm not really a fan of the big industry names in that spaceBy Andrew Pollack on07/30/2008 at 05:41 PM EDT
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re: Major software switch - Dropping Grisoft's AVG and trying out Avast!By Charles Robinson on07/30/2008 at 02:17 PM EDT
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I'm a fan of S&D as wellBy Andrew Pollack on07/30/2008 at 05:48 PM EDT
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re: Major software switch - Dropping Grisoft's AVG and trying out Avast!By Joe Litton on07/31/2008 at 11:37 AM EDT
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re: Major software switch - Dropping Grisoft's AVG and trying out Avast!By Paul Gagnon on08/03/2008 at 09:34 PM EDT
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