[access-uk] Re: avg free edition

  • From: "Sunil" <bosley20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:37:40 +0100

So what you're saying is that you're more concerned about protecting your PC
from viral infection than your girlfriend because she's poor?

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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Barry Toner
Sent: 24 August 2005 17:13
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: avg free edition


It does when you look at the real awards.

****Soapbox ahoy*******

I use NOD32 here.

To view some of it's awards

http://www.nod32.com/news/awards.htm

To view an aarticle a few years old but my understanding is that the 
practice continues on uneducated and biased reviews read,

NOD32 trashed by CNet Review !!!

http://www.nod32.com.au/nod32/awards/cnet_zdnet.htm

Since dabbling with Mcafee, Norton, AVG, Panda, PC Cillin to name but a few 
over the years I've used IBM's I've personally never used anything like this

thing.

I've seen and talked to friends and professionals, by professionals I mean 
security consultants and high level Network Admins in corporate IT industry 
about this product and those that have tryed it haven't looked back.

I have even had the pleasure once myself of going to a clients house with a 
trial of NOD32 and clearing up their system by allowing it to perform an 
indepth scan on the system, watch it clean and delete infected files and 
have their system back up and running perfectly without a format or Windows 
repair.  This perticular person was running Mcafee btw and their definitions

where up to date.

I was more than happy with my AVG untill I ran NOD32 on my system and found 
7 dormint trojans I hadn't a clue where there and I don't mean buried in 
that messy nest of system restore archives either.  Right there in system32.

I like many thought AVG was doing agood job because my system hadn't keeled 
over.  (A behaviour often we associate with the presence of a virus). 
However, the meer fact that trojans where on my system and my anti-virus 
package didn't catch them gave me cause to re-consider what I was using.

Now, this all said.  I will be honest in that my girlfriend uses AVG at the 
moment because she cant' aford NOD as she's currently unemployed.  Being a 
bit of a geek and anal (with the home user in mind), about computer security

as I am I have cautioned her on this but I'm satasfied that untill such time

she purchases and installs NOD32 she's still partially being protected.

I'm not trashing other anti-virus programs in a way that suggests don't use 
them because I still believe even though many of the others do not meet the 
stringent tests NOD32 does you are still in one way protecting yourself and 
others, if not to the best you can at least to a degree.

NOD32's about £27 for the years subscription and you can also get a trial 
from it.

You can fidn out more about NOD32 at

http://www.nod32.com



Barry

The pillars of any good relationship I believe are, Honesty, Trust, and 
Communication.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sunil" <bosley20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 4:33 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: avg free edition


> AVG is great and I've seen it reviewed by loads of experts who say its 
> as good as McAfee which costs. Ad-Aware and Spybot are free too so the 
> getting what you pay for thing doesn't always apply
>
> .
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf
> Of
> Peter Logue
> Sent: 24 August 2005 14:03
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: avg free edition
>
>
> Hi Marie, I'd purchase another   anti virus. AVG being free means you get
> what you pay for.
> It really isn't that good I find.
>
> Peter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf
> Of
> Marie Baisez
> Sent: August 24, 2005 4:17 AM
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] avg free edition
>
> Guess what? NAV's playing up again, so, I'm contemplating using AVG 
> free edition. Think I've hit a snag though, when I read the product 
> limitations it says that it is not suitable for a network, we have 2 
> PCS networked sharing the internet connection through a router. Any of 
> you using this version with a config similar to mine? Any comments on 
> this matter welcomed.
>
> Cheers now,
>
> Marie
>
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