Which is better Avast or AVG

minkster

New member

• Sep 5, 2004

• #1

im thinkin of switchin to avast but i dont no yet hone:

 

smcd

Active member

• Sep 5, 2004

• #2

I use http://www.free-av.com/ AntiVir.

 

ScottJC

At your service, dood!

• Sep 5, 2004

• #3

I can't decide, i've used them both and both are excellent.

 

-Shadow-

Banned

• Sep 5, 2004

• #4

I use Anti-vir . It never disappointed me

 

Stezo2k

S-2K

• Sep 5, 2004

• #5

AVG has never disappointed me either, hasn't missed out any viruses, and is quite fast

 

RJARRRPCGP

The Rocking PC Wiz

• Sep 5, 2004

• #6

Avast is better, because Avast has the fastest automatic updating method available and I did get wording of AVG faling to detect some viruses that Avast was able to detect.

 

vileP

New member

• Sep 6, 2004

• #7

I like AVG better, as the updates are usually less than 200kb, except for a few times when there's a major update.

 

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minkster

New member

• Sep 6, 2004

• Thread Starter
• #8

i just switched to avast and by far i have to say its better than AVG. it even does boot time scans . by the way, does avast take up a lot of resources?

 

smcd

Active member

• Sep 6, 2004

• #9

minkster said:

i just switched to avast and by far i have to say its better than AVG. it even does boot time scans . by the way, does avast take up a lot of resources?

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You're running it, you tell us!

 

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minkster

New member

• Sep 6, 2004

• Thread Starter
• #10

sethmcdoogle said:

You're running it, you tell us!

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haha i cant tell the difference from avg's performance

 

ScottJC

At your service, dood!

• Sep 6, 2004

• #11

I don't leave avast running in the background

I just use it to scan every now and then, resources are not important if you do that hehe.

 

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altharic

Fruit Machine Emulator Geek

• Sep 6, 2004

• #12

I'll be honest here and say neither I have found that both have at one point missed viruses some very nasty ones I use one called f-prot which I installed on a machine with AVG on it and it found 5 viruses that were missed.

My advice is avoid and look elsewhere.

Alth

 

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Slougi

New member

• Sep 7, 2004

• #13

I use Linux

 

Hexidecimal

Emutalk Bounty Hunter.

• Sep 7, 2004

• #14

I like avast, its a helluva lot faster then sysworks 2k4, which is just bad bloatware at this point.