AVG Free VS avast! |
AVG Free VS avast! |
30 Aug 2009, 17:14
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Officer of the European Continental Army Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
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. -------------------- |
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30 Aug 2009, 18:21
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Group: Members Posts: 147 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: Antwerp Member No.: 61 heehoohaa |
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. -------------------- P |
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30 Aug 2009, 18:28
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Officer of the European Continental Army Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
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). -------------------- |
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31 Aug 2009, 1:16
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GAAAAAAAAAIKIIIIIIIIING! Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: 7 June 2009 Member No.: 68 |
Avast is superior to AVG in every possible way, IMO
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31 Aug 2009, 4:31
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Officer of the European Continental Army Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
Avast is superior to AVG in every possible way, IMO Could you expand on that? -------------------- |
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31 Aug 2009, 4:56
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Group: Members Posts: 363 Joined: 16 June 2009 From: Irving, TX Member No.: 167 |
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.
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31 Aug 2009, 9:22
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GAAAAAAAAAIKIIIIIIIIING! Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: 7 June 2009 Member No.: 68 |
Could you expand on that? It finds things AVG doesn't, it's easier to use, it looks nicer, etc. -------------------- |
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31 Aug 2009, 12:06
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Cool Guy Group: Legend Posts: 1317 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: Sydney Member No.: 46 |
From my experience AVG has a shitload of false positives too.
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31 Aug 2009, 12:09
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GAAAAAAAAAIKIIIIIIIIING! Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: 7 June 2009 Member No.: 68 |
Definately, I forgot to mention that one.
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31 Aug 2009, 12:31
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Group: Administrator Posts: 5732 Joined: 31 May 2009 From: The Netherlands Member No.: 1 Projects: SWR Productions Bitch slapping SAGE since 2003 |
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. -------------------- |
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31 Aug 2009, 13:18
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Товарищ Group: Members Posts: 650 Joined: 17 June 2009 From: Philippines Member No.: 175 ex-D' WRTHBRNGR |
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).
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31 Aug 2009, 13:47
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GAAAAAAAAAIKIIIIIIIIING! Group: Members Posts: 215 Joined: 7 June 2009 Member No.: 68 |
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... -------------------- |
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31 Aug 2009, 20:56
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"quarawr!" Group: Members Posts: 121 Joined: 14 June 2009 From: CZ (EU) Member No.: 149 busy with uni projects and exams |
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 -------------------- Don't blame the others if you haven't checked your own (in)ability in first case. Elections: It doesn't matter who wins, you always lose! |
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2 Sep 2009, 20:48
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Group: Dev. Team Posts: 1220 Joined: 8 June 2009 From: East Coast of either China or the US Member No.: 96 Projects: SWR Productions |
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. -------------------- |
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2 Sep 2009, 20:50
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Officer of the European Continental Army Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
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. -------------------- |
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3 Sep 2009, 7:37
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Group: Dev. Team Posts: 1220 Joined: 8 June 2009 From: East Coast of either China or the US Member No.: 96 Projects: SWR Productions |
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. -------------------- |
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3 Sep 2009, 13:45
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Gamer Girl Group: Legend Posts: 3808 Joined: 19 June 2009 From: Disboard Member No.: 182 Friendly Freelancer |
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.
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4 Sep 2009, 9:04
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Don't Piss him off. Group: Legend Posts: 132 Joined: 3 June 2009 From: Bombay, India Member No.: 12 Projects: SWR Tester Hookah Addict |
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. -------------------- I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information |
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4 Sep 2009, 14:18
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Officer of the European Continental Army Group: Members Posts: 2351 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: England, Great Britain Member No.: 71 Community Manager at Nexus Mods |
I must say, since using avast! my system is a considerable amount faster than it was.
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12 Sep 2009, 15:16
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Formerly Scopejim Group: Members Posts: 369 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: Land of the Cedar Member No.: 38 Electronics Engineer |
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. |
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13 Sep 2009, 0:26
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"quarawr!" Group: Members Posts: 121 Joined: 14 June 2009 From: CZ (EU) Member No.: 149 busy with uni projects and exams |
QUOTE 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!). -------------------- Don't blame the others if you haven't checked your own (in)ability in first case. Elections: It doesn't matter who wins, you always lose! |
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13 Sep 2009, 17:29
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Don't Piss him off. Group: Legend Posts: 132 Joined: 3 June 2009 From: Bombay, India Member No.: 12 Projects: SWR Tester Hookah Addict |
even microsofts the king of bloats new anit virus software is better then the crap for orton, mcaffe and trend micro.
-------------------- I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information |
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14 Sep 2009, 11:44
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Formerly Scopejim Group: Members Posts: 369 Joined: 7 June 2009 From: Land of the Cedar Member No.: 38 Electronics Engineer |
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
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