[JA] Re: Free Antiviral News
- From: Geoffrey Wilson <glw4@xxxxxxx>
- To: thepccat@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:35:36 -0400
After reading this message I intended to stay with Avast 4.7, but I
found that I was already in 4.8.
I am getting some strange behavior - I'm not sure whether it's 4.8
fighting Comodo, my firewall.
Also I had changed from DUN to broadband, but only 500m/500M. Many
attempts at downloading files have resulted in a corrupt file. For
one application I had to go to the loacal library and put it onto my
flash drive, as I always used to do.
At 02:46 AM 2008/06/20, thepccat@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>[from Gizmo's Support Alert Newsletter Free Edition, Issue 158, 19th Jun=
>e, 2008]
>
>First, AVG has announced that they have extended the life of the old V7.=
>5 until the end of 2008 rather than the end of May. That's good news and=
> takes the pressure off AVG Free 7.5 users to make a decision.
>
>Second, I keep on getting reports about AVG V8 bugs and how it's making =
>users' PCs run more slowly.
>
>My advice at this stage is to stay away from V8 until AVG has sorted out=
> the problems. And they will; I recall a similar situation when V7 was i=
>ntroduced, but in the end V7 became a very solid product.
>
>In contrast the reports I've been getting on Avast! V4 have been very po=
>sitive. Although users report it to be resource-hungrier than AVG 7.5, i=
>t appears to be less hungry than AVG 8. And users love the fact that it =
>provides broad-spectrum protection, which includes anti-spyware, anti-ro=
>otkit and email protection, in addition to anti-virus. It should definit=
>ely be high on your list of free security products to try. Remember thou=
>gh, it's only free for non-commercial use.
>
>[Incidentally I switched from Avast! to the third free AV: Avira Antivir=
> personal [does not run on 98], and I don't like it now. It was supposed=
> to be lighter than Avast!, and maybe it is--hard to tell. It has more f=
>alse positives than AVG. It has much larger daily update files [to or ex=
>ceeding a meg], and it insists on taking even larger program updates [th=
>ough it tries to be sparing with the bandwidth I sometimes lose a [dialu=
>p] download in the same period] even if I set it to do not update progra=
>m unless I ask [I have not been to forum, maybe there is a way around th=
>at]. It also has problems connecting to server so it can sit for 20 minu=
>tes then say it failed to update. Oh, yeah, it generates a large popup e=
>very morning berating you for not updating to the pay version--easy enou=
>gh to cancel though. Other than that is seems to be a fine product.
>
>I will probably go back to "good old Avast!"]
>
>
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