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Bad program name:Grisoft AVG Antivirus Bad program Website: http://free.avg.com | ||
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Bad Program - Grisoft AVG Free In the beginning, AVG antivirus was good... Real Good. Small size, resource usage was virtually unnoticeable, caught all the viruses. Better than McAfee. Better than Symantec - Norton. And it didn't slow your computer down. But, over time the "update" files kept getting bigger and bigger. Slow-down of the computer kept getting more pronounced. The final straw was when Grisoft decided that everyone had to stop at the Microsoft Cashier and pay more money to Bill Gates for his newest crap (XP-SP2 or Vista) or you could no longer use AVG antivirus. Windows 98 users were left hanging out to dry. Only those folks who had bought Windows XP and further upgraded to Service Pack 2 (or Vista) would be served by Grisoft AVG. (If they are only going to support Micro$oft's latest software, and not earlier platforms, why are they even an independent company? They are just a subdivision of Micro$oft, in practice). So, I thought I'd use AVG on my Win XP computers and find something else for my Win 98 computers. Installed AVG on my XP and I was immediately reminded of why I won't have Symantec-Norton or McAfee on my computers. The latest incarnations of AVG Free are resource hogs and slow the computer W-A-Y down. We tend to buy the computers with the super fast CPU's so that our computer will operate at lightning speed. What's the point though if AVG is mucking around in there and slowing it down so much it looks like we're running Windows 3.1 on a 25 Megahertz CPU? Not me, Charlie. I've switched to Clamwin for now. Clamwin is how AVG was in the beginning. Small install size, low resource usage, works on Windows 98 (and XP and Vista), and free! (This is not Joe's endorsement of Clamwin as being good or not -- I don't know yet -- still testing Sept 2009) Scratch Clamwin. It's okay, but apparently does not actively scan for viruses while you're opening files. Now I'm using NOD32. Works great, with low resource-use, like Calmwin, BUT it actively looks at file I'm opening or downloading and warns me if it is a virus (or potential virus). Unfortunately it is not free after the demo runs out. It will still work, but you won't get any further updates. It is probably worth the money. (Still, this is not an endorsement -- just my observation). |
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