Comments on: How does AVG-free compare to other top Security Suites?

By: chippy088

chippy088 — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:56:32 +0000

I use AVG antivirus and Zone alarm firewall (because they are free) on all 3 of my home networked PCs. I have malware software installed on all 3. It started out 3 years ago, as a project to test security programs. At the time they caught all the baddies, which gave me confidence in them, so I never changed.

I have 1 PC that is accessed by a colleague over the internet, so it is always on. In the 3 years I have used this set up, I have only had 1 case of malware, (your PC is infected pay to have it removed etc) this was caused by clicking on the wrong part of the screen resulting in a remote virus check from a scam website. (User error. AV doesn’t stop that, only user training.) AVGs website help,

As Dee101 already said, company usage is different.

The more functions the security software has means greater memory usage. At this time on my PC AVG has 6 resident programs running, and Zonealarm has 1, using a total RAM of 10k, not a lot considering the overhead some others that do the same job have.

By: dee101

dee101 — Sun, 16 May 2010 03:36:19 +0000

For home use, I’ve had very good luck with AVG. It detects virus, trojans and rootkits quite well. There are the occasional false positives, of course, but that happens with any Security Suite.

My major concern with Norton and McAfee is that they are rather heavy-handed in two areas: resource requirements and “taking over” machine access. The resource piece can be an issue for performance at the least — but I’ve also found that they can make changes to system parameters that can be rather hard to track down.

Security solutions are a balancing act between need and the overall cost on the user experience. For home machines, I’ve found that AVG with strong passwords on sensitive files works well. For home business machines, of course, AVG-free would be a EULA violation. The paid version works — and I’d also commend VIPRE from SunBelt if you want an alternative.

By: jinteik

jinteik — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:17:28 +0000

allow me to share this too. I used AVG on one of my office computers and it detected not harmful files as trojan and virus. I was worried. So i updated the thing (it does automatic update) and continue to scan the pc.

after I found out that file was safe, i removed AVG and installed McAfee. I then did a full scan on the pc, but it was clean. since I thought it was pulling my leg, I decided to do another full scan and it was clean….

By: r3boot

r3boot — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:26:11 +0000

well, AVG its a good anti-virus software but nowadays its not viruses are threat its malware, another software you can used that really works besides its free from malwarebytes creators of “malwarebytes anti-malware”.