Grisoft Releases AVG Anti-Virus 7.1
Posted by hayc59 on 21 October 2005 - 08:27 · 19 comments & 2269 views
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#1 Posted by Tungsten T on 21 Oct 2005 - 08:30
- AVG isint my foavorite but thanks
I Use mcaffe enterprise, Only 20 megs of ram and detectoin rate second to only NOD32 -
#1.1 Posted by thunderrooster on 24 Oct 2005 - 02:05
- Mcafee and kaspersky has a higher detection rate than nod32.
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#2 Posted by insanekiwi on 21 Oct 2005 - 08:34
- nice. i hope they'll update the free version aswell
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#3 Posted by indiehead on 21 Oct 2005 - 09:19
- great news,
AVG has never failed me personally, but i'm looking into BitDefender.
Just will never touch Trend AV as that was bloody awful!
Glad I gave Norton to my brother, now my machine runs like a a devil and his...... doesn't -
#3.1 Posted by indiehead on 21 Oct 2005 - 09:20
- as you actually have to BUY memory to run Norton (cos it's a RAM hog, but what else is new)
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#3.2 Posted by eilegz on 22 Oct 2005 - 07:32
- weird trendmicro 2005 and 2006 its very good all in one antivirus and firewall no problem with it, its many ways better than avg, anyways i use nod32 at home but at work its trendmicro..
Anyways i just dont recommend norton to anyone since version 2004 it becomes a useless, worthless and bloated piece of software
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#4 Posted by Shadrack on 21 Oct 2005 - 15:12
- I love AVG. Have a site network license at work and free edition at home. Great program, IMO.
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#5 Posted by Raa on 21 Oct 2005 - 15:34
- I thought NOD looked purdy good myself..... Wasnt a big fan of AVG much
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#5.1 Posted by chicken-royal on 21 Oct 2005 - 15:38
- I've switched around a few times. Started with AVG, then went to Norton, and I'm currently using NOD32. Prefer NOD32 out of all of them, but they were all good. Apart from Norton hogging the RAM. lol
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#5.2 Posted by theyarecomingforyou on 22 Oct 2005 - 18:53
- I played around with AVG for a bit but I've happily settled with NOD32... it has the best detection and the lowest footprint/impact that I've found.
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#6 Posted by Nautica on 21 Oct 2005 - 18:35
- AVG is rated one of the worst as far as virus protection... I had 3 viruses that AVG didnt pick up, I ran pandas online scan, and that picked them up...
been using NOD32 ever since.. not ONE virus in the last year
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#7 Posted by Scorbing on 21 Oct 2005 - 20:22
- AVG has the worst test reports. It is a useless AV. If you want something reliable, use Trendmicro Internet Security 2005 (2006 coming soon) or Panda 2006. They are a whole lot better than AVG and Norton. Stay away from bloated, useless Norton too!
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#8 Posted by NextGen_Gamer on 21 Oct 2005 - 21:46
- Great news, although I already knew it when AVG asked to restart after a 10MB update (the first time I have EVER had to restart it for anything). AVG has never failed me, either in detecting or removing viruses. And, at least on my PC, it takes up 26MB of memory, but then I have a registered copy of AVG Anti-Virus Plus Firewall, so I'm sure the regular free edition would take up less than 20MB. The firewall portion is absolutely great by the way, even more in-depth then the latest version of ZoneAlarm's (I tested both of them out using their 30-day free periods).
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#9 Posted by Word on 21 Oct 2005 - 22:46
- My dad had mcaffe on his computer and it really slowed it down with the 7 (or so) start up processes it had. I took it off and startup goes faster by 10 seconds and it runs slightly (But not really too noticeably) faster even after putting on AVG free which scans his emails automatically so he doesn't get any more virus crap that I have to clean up.
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#10 Posted by ^_^ Silly Willy on 22 Oct 2005 - 02:49
- two thumbs up for avg
Their verison with the firewall is even better.
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#11 Posted by TRC on 23 Oct 2005 - 08:18
- The free version is now updated to 7.1 also.
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#12 Posted by AplusWebMaster on 23 Oct 2005 - 14:25
QUOTE Posted by Scorbing on 22 Oct 2005 - 01:22
"AVG has the worst test reports. It is a useless AV..."
Hmmm. 'Surprising that Intel would invest $16m in something so "useless", ya' think?
- http://www.intel.com/capital/news/spotligh...hts/grisoft.htm
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#12.1 Posted by VikingStorm on 23 Oct 2005 - 17:09
- That doesn't really mean anything. Company investments don't correlate with the quality of a product (if not, there is actually some ulterior market motive).
Though the test results also don't lie.
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#13 Posted by Ice Brewed Beer on 23 Oct 2005 - 17:18
- I use Kaspersky, I think it's the best AV I've used.
I've used pretty much all of them.....AVG, Norton, Mcafee, panda, nod32. I'm no where near saying the rest of them suck, I just prefer Kaspersky and it hasen't let me down.
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