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  1. 13th August 2008, 07:37 AM #11
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    I switched to avira, better than AVG, less intrusive apart from a popup when it starts up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phoenix View Post
    I switched to avira, better than AVG, less intrusive apart from a popup when it starts up.
    you could well live to regret them words old salt...

    the less intrusive part especially...

    seen some pretty dam screwed up machines come in with it installed...

    putting it in is easy, getting it out can be a health hazard on a lot of machines.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jamo View Post
    Does this mean that AVG will slow my computers?

    I've had enough of CA, which takes over and slows everything down too much. This morning I had to pull the plug half way through boot-up number n just to get it to give me the safe mode option so I could disable CA and log on. The firewall was freezing everything.

    I need a virus and firewall software. AVast seems only to be virus so I was thinking of AVG.

    I don't want to spend the cash only to find out AVG is no different to CA.
    AVG 7.5 was OK, AVG 8 really slows the system. Scanning really, really slows the system down. I no longer do it when I'm using the PC, I start it at midnight. The other night, the scanning was running at full speed (which makes the PC useless) and was still running after 24 hours so I shut it down - and that was on a 40Gb drive.

    I'm going back to AVG 7.5.
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    as an aside, you need to have the latest service packs installed for avg to work best...

    that goes for vista and xp...
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    Thanks for the advice.

    I ended up getting Kaspersky Business Space. it seemed to offer what I need.

    Haven't loaded it up yet. I'll do that tonight. Fingers crossed it'll perform like it's reviews tout. It'd have to be better than CA, though! (I hope!!)
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    Quote Originally Posted by incisor View Post
    you could well live to regret them words old salt...

    the less intrusive part especially...

    seen some pretty dam screwed up machines come in with it installed...

    putting it in is easy, getting it out can be a health hazard on a lot of machines.

    thats the price of free-dom,
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift View Post
    thats the price of free-dom,
    is that anything like fem-dom
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    Kaspersky's great. My computers are faster and the laptop no longer freezes on me. A few other issues have disappeared too that I didn't consider might have been caused by the CA product.
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    Quote Originally Posted by p38arover View Post
    AVG 7.5 was OK, AVG 8 really slows the system. Scanning really, really slows the system down. I no longer do it when I'm using the PC, I start it at midnight. The other night, the scanning was running at full speed (which makes the PC useless) and was still running after 24 hours so I shut it down - and that was on a 40Gb drive.
    Don't know what your doing. AVG 8 on mine takes about ~3-4 hours for a fairly full 160Gb drive. Having said that though, I liked AVG 7.5 better too.
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