Re: Avast AV vs AVG (Free Editions)

From: NoneOfBusiness (NoneofBusiness_at_nob.com)
Date: 01/23/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:34:08 -0500

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:00:46 -0800, Kerodo <kerodokenny@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>NoneOfBusiness wrote:
>> I have switched to using Avast! Free Edition on one of my pc's to
>> evaluate it, but i was just curious what other users think compared to
>> AVG. Is it a better product, worse, why? User opinions needed. So far
>> i kind of like it. The interface is not as intuitive as AVG's buts its
>> no worse than some i have seen from Norton or McAfee.
>>
>> Is the detection and cleaning of virii/trojans good? AVG wasn't
>> always great with this.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>
>I recently tried both Avast and AVG. I preferred Avast slightly. Both,
>however, failed to handle email scanning properly. I think because
>neither of them handles errors on my mail server properly. I run
>Outlook minimized 24 hours a day for email. Both Avast and AVG worked
>fine for a few days, but then my incoming and outgoing email started to
>"clog up" and failed to send and receive until I exited Outlook and then
>reloaded it again.
>
>I did have occasion to see both AVG and Avast catch viruses. AVG didn't
>seem to handle them as well as Avast. Avast gave you more options when
>it encountered a virus.
>
>Anyway, after a few days of the email problems, I went back to Norton AV
>2003 again, which always seems to handle errors well. Everything in
>Norton works right. And that's what I want. So I'm now back to NAV...

Thanks, thats more like the info i am looking for. Email scanning is
not as big for me as i don't use Outlook or OE, i don't open
attachments, i don't read HTML email, and i do not allow Javascript. I
just want a decent free scanner to keep from buying Norton or Mcafee.

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