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AVG good as any other
If you're not a professional tester with a test lab backing you up, you're results are meaningless, especially as three independent labs (Virus Bulletin, ICSALabs, AV-Test.org) have passed AVG with flying colors for 'in the wild' viri and have done so for some time now. I doubt Grisoft makes a crippled detection engine for their free version, that would be lunatic and dishonorable. Their pay-for version has more features but I doubt it has better detection. NOTHING is perfect... there's always new malware... but if you don't use an antivirus and keep it UP TO DATE, then it's soon useless. One of AVG's strengths is that it's not an all-in-one swiss army knife purporting to protect you from everything under the sun... and so burden the hell out of your PC and op sys... and another is that it updates automatically and does it well... so for the vast majority of home users... it is orders of magnitude better than not having anything or having the supposed 'best' and not keeping it up to date. There will alwasy be victims of bleeding edge malware... but AVG does NOT 'suck'. and definitely no more than ANY other antivirus... but that's my opinion. Most users that need AV, don't bother to keep it up to date. AVG will, automatically.
Posted by: RDrr   Posted on: 12/18/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Vista  Yensi717 | 12/15/06
All too true.  John Zern | 12/15/06
they did  doh123 | 12/17/06
Wait, so...  A_Pickle | 12/18/06
Clueless M$ supporter  Glen Guenther | 12/18/06
Pathetic  mobrien_12@... | 12/17/06
Try AVG Free Edition  otaddy | 12/17/06
Seconded.  A_Pickle | 12/18/06
Seconded, squared  electro@... | 12/18/06
AVG Free  LeighCMellor@... | 12/19/06
I remember...  A_Pickle | 12/18/06
Removing spyware/virus???  lamp299 | 12/18/06
That is pure junk....I remove many backdoor  cglrcng@... | 12/18/06
Part of my regular toolkit is SYMCLN.exe  cglrcng@... | 12/18/06
Pathetic  rfennimore@... | 12/18/06
Try AVG Free, so far it works  cglrcng@... | 12/18/06
Alternate Software, have you tried...  kevsnet | 12/19/06
Message has been deleted.  kevsnet | 12/19/06
avg also  slow_descent | 12/18/06
False sense of security?  NonZealot | 12/18/06
False sense of security?  rfennimore@... | 12/18/06
Try Avast!  Sparhawk_z | 12/18/06
What problems do you see?  kwilproduction@... | 12/18/06
AVG good as any other  RDrr | 12/18/06
NONE OF THEM catch 100% Period!  cglrcng@... | 12/18/06
Down with Symantec. Down with McAfee.  A_Pickle | 12/18/06
And it won't run on 95% of hardware  cglrcng@... | 12/18/06
You're seriously nuts...  A_Pickle | 12/18/06
Have you PERSONALLY tried  cglrcng@... | 12/19/06
For that matter....  cglrcng@... | 12/19/06
Never enough info  quarky42 | 12/18/06
Never enough info  rfennimore@... | 12/18/06
Just posted this on the story at your link;  cglrcng@... | 12/18/06
Forgot the most Important thing.  cglrcng@... | 12/18/06
LIVE UPDATE is the patch retrieval link  cglrcng@... | 12/18/06
Read it again...  Glen Guenther | 12/18/06
It gives more info than you seem to believe...  Glen Guenther | 12/18/06
YES, what versions of Symantec?  kevsnet | 12/19/06
Just want Symantec to give a damn.  tom_kelley@... | 12/18/06
I noticed that also....  cglrcng@... | 12/18/06
...and do what?  Glen Guenther | 12/18/06
Are you telling me...That there are  cglrcng@... | 12/18/06
I wish I weren't saying that...  Glen Guenther | 12/18/06
Yikes....Reading mail, surfing....  cglrcng@... | 12/19/06
To hell with Symantec  maxtheaxe | 12/18/06
Look up above and I told how to  cglrcng@... | 12/18/06

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