AVG Free VS avast! Options

[Pickysaurus]

Hey guys,

Since all of you have been banging on about how much they like avast! I have traded in AVG to give it a try.
Now since downloading, I opened the program, it did a scan and I entered the key. It said "Program will continue" which made me expect a kind of user interface, but nothing came up. :S
Does avast! even have a UI? If so, why doesn't it come up?

Also, the main aim of this topic is for people to explain how it's better than AVG.
I have found that avast! is twice the size of AVG Free, and they are said to do pretty much the same job.

[ka1000]

avast is oooh soo quiet compared to AVG. you don't have to do a thing, it just lies there, half-sleeping and yet on the lookout for anything incoming.

i love it for that; not having to do anything plus the fact it's so light on the system.

[Pickysaurus]

avast is oooh soo quiet compared to AVG. you don't have to do a thing, it just lies there, half-sleeping and yet on the lookout for anything incoming.

i love it for that; not having to do anything plus the fact it's so light on the system.

What do you have to do in AVG then? :S
The only real difference is that I don't think it displays an alert when scanning emails (or it just isn't scanning them)

If by 'light on the system' you mean in term of disk space. It's actually about the same as AVG (Ignore first post).

[RaiDK]

Avast is superior to AVG in every possible way, IMO

[Pickysaurus]

Avast is superior to AVG in every possible way, IMO

Could you expand on that?

[C.o.m.m.a.n.d.e....]

i had AVG for awhile and i had it bugging me about evry little program connecting to the internet evrything i clicked came up with something. with avast it is constantly scanning your system but at a slow enough pace it doesnt use up the computer hardly at all and it automatically scans any program you download and also scans programs u open but it doesnt bug you about it there is an interface but you dont rly need to mess with it unless u want to set the settings of the different scanners it has.

[RaiDK]

Could you expand on that?

It finds things AVG doesn't, it's easier to use, it looks nicer, etc.

[Alias]

From my experience AVG has a shitload of false positives too.

[RaiDK]

Definately, I forgot to mention that one.

[The_Hunter]

if you ask me at this point neither.

NOD32 is what i have now AVG and Avast were not capable of even detecting the virus i had last weekend.

[wb21]

Avast, while it can stop Autorun.inf virus while it's been detected after plugging in a removable drive (eg a USB flash drive), it can't suppress an executed (ie when an application [.exe] with a folder icon is opened) one (I have to use Trojan Remover from my friend to finally clean up the damage made the virus).

[RaiDK]

In my experience Avast wouldn't even let the executable with the virus run, even if I was sure it wasn't a virus and told it to do nothing

Turns out it was a virus though. Cheers Avast...

[partyzanPaulZy]

I use Avast! 4.8 Home Edition, Firefox, Ad-Aware, HijackThis and I am happy with this combo.

simply: NOD32 paid version > Avast! Home Edition > AVG (school AVG 6.0 was bunch of crap, because those PCs were still full of viruses)

I rather won't continue in this post because of growing patriotistic feelings (see origins of those AVs on wikipedia)...

This post has been edited by partyzanPaulZy: 31 Aug 2009, 21:00

[NergiZed]

Ja I prefer avast, but if you've got the cash, you should probably go with Kaspersky. That thing murders viruses and can differenciate (most of the time) between program cracks, trainers and keygens with actual threats.

Sadly, my college forces me to use some Norton program. It's compitent and generally doesn't get in my way, but there's always this nagging feeling that it's letting viruses in.

[Pickysaurus]

Sadly, my college forces me to use some Norton program. It's compitent and generally doesn't get in my way, but there's always this nagging feeling that it's letting viruses in.

Nortan IS the biggest virus. It works while you have it, but is near impossible to get rid of.

I'm still hoping for people to highlight specific points for comparison between the two.

On a slightly different note; the GUI for avast! worked after a second reboot.

[NergiZed]

Nortan IS the biggest virus. It works while you have it, but is near impossible to get rid of.

I'm still hoping for people to highlight specific points for comparison between the two.

On a slightly different note; the GUI for avast! worked after a second reboot.

Hehe, that snippet made my day.

I've never used AVG, but I know I won't need it, as I'm completely satisfied when I'm using avast.

It also has that charming 'Your Virus Database has been updated' that it says almost daily, giving you some sort of mental reassurance that avast is able to ID any virus you'll every encounter.

[Shiro]

To say my opinion, I use Avira as it is free and cost-efficient for my system. Combined with SpyBot, I had no virus problems since I buyed this laptop.

[Prophet of the P...]

Avast or Microsoft security essentials.
Avira is a good option too.

AVG is annoying and bloated. The old version was good but the recent version have been utter crap.

[Pickysaurus]

I must say, since using avast! my system is a considerable amount faster than it was.

[beefJeRKy]

Between free AV scanners, Avast! and Avira are great options. AVG used to be good but they've fallen behind.
As Nergized mentioned though, if you have the cash, Kaspersky is the best and most efficient especially that they've gotten rid of the pig squeal upon virus detection. I've heard good stuff about NOD32's latest btw. And stay far away from Norton and even farther from Trend Micro and McAffee. They slow your PC down so much. My uncle's netbook came with McAffee and he complained about it being so slow. I made him install Avira and he claims it wasn't this fast even fresh from the shop.

[partyzanPaulZy]

And stay far away from Norton and even farther from Trend Micro and McAffee. They slow your PC down so much.

QFT (from my own experience), for both of these "slugs".
I had Avast! and I like it, there are only 2 paid AVs which I would buy instead of the Avast! - mentioned NOD32 and Kaspersky (they are better a bit than free version of the Avast!).

[Prophet of the P...]

even microsofts the king of bloats new anit virus software is better then the crap for orton, mcaffe and trend micro.

[beefJeRKy]

Yeah they make up for crappy heuristics by slowing down the PC I remember around Norton 2002 or 03 there was generally no better choice though