AVG FREE 8.5

I'm still running AVG 7.5 now unsupported.

I tried the 8.0 and hated it as I had waaaaay too many hoops to jump through just to do simple tasks. I uninstalled it and went back to 7.5

Is anybody using 8.5 FREE and liking it ???

Russ

Nashville

I bought in and have regretted it a little. The one thing I don't like is the forced system restart--better not leave any unsaved work on your machine when you walk away from it! AVG might be updating, and then might force a system restart with a 120 second right of refusal. Seems pretty intrusive to me.

Most of us have dumped AVG for avast!, a long time ago.

That's a shame, too...AVG was a great little program, at one time.

Also, from reports I've seen, AVG has become more bloated than McAffee and Norton.

I've gone to Avast as well but it does slow things down when booting up on the computers I still have Windows on.

I gave up on AVG after 7.5, it just seemed too buggy.

I use Comodo antivirus now, it's free also. Updates are a breeze, unlike AVG.

My wife's computer is the last one in the house still on AVG - and it just CRAWLS now, intolerably slow. AVG, as mentioned above, was slick when it was younger, but is now another Fat Albert among so many others in the virus software pantheon.

nat whilk ii

I use AVG on my computers, the one I'm using right now has 8.5. I've never used automatic updates on it, I update it whan I want to update it. I also don't keep it running. I'm careful where I take my computer and just run the program (telling it to update the data base) once or twice a week just for good luck. I don't care if it's slow. I let it run when I'm going to be away from the computer for an hour or so.

I used to recommend AVG, but now I have to unrecommend it.

I use Avast for home PC, but nothing on DAW and I don't have that online.

I don't use any antivirus program in active mode. If it won't work when I go in and remove its startup files in the registry I won't use it. I don't want anything running except perhaps email scanning.

I've been running antivirus programs manually on a schedule for years because all of them slow things down to some degree. I have a recent version of Norton here in the drawer, but I won't use it because it's of the Devil. It became impossible to bring under control.

I'm not completely happy with any antivirus program at the present time.

Thanks for the tips guys.

Russ

Nashville

HEY BROS

+1 on Comodo, but...

I'm not completely happy with any antivirus program at the present time.

+100 on this.

AVG is a load of bollocks. The speed hit from their auto-scan agent is massive.

Comodo does a lot better in this department, which is important since I need to run it in a VM. Also, the behavioural analysis features are good for when the virus scanner inevitably misses something.