AVG 8.0 Free: what the heck is this NOW?

[Oldmoparguy1]

More AVG bashing....

Sigh..

 

[Mucho_MPG]

Using NOD32 by ESET and couldn't be happier. Avira is a great free-ware one. AVG is off my computer now as it is not a bad product, but there are better alternatives out at this time.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted By: 97tbird
is Avira free?

Yup. I've switched to Avira Free about 2 months ago, ever since I decided the latest AVG was too much of a bloatware. So far so good.

 

[MONKEYMAN]

I am using the paid version of AVG 8 and seems to work fine on my Vista computer. I don't even know it is there performance wise. My older XP bogs down when scanning, but other then that seems to work well. I just pause the scan until I am done browsing or running programs. Yesterday when I was searching for a replacement nozzle for my parents hose (ran over it with the mower) I came upon a website that tried installing a trojan on my Vista computer. AVG recognized it and isolated it in the virus vault right away. So, it seems to be working well, but maybe I just do not know enough to know the difference?

 

[OVERKILL]

Avira is a great product, so is Avast!. AVG has gotten too "Norton-esque" with this latest release. I have had to remove it from a number of PC's.

 

[tmorris1]

Originally Posted By: 97tbird
can you explain that a bit? sorry, I'm not very knowledgeable.
does that mean that Avira will scan them anyway (or perhaps i have to open it 1st whereas AVG/avast scans it BEFORE opening? I read something like that on the web)
what does Avast/AVG do different, having an email scanner?

I will scan the files before they are written to the hard drive, so it should catch an email virus before it infects your computer. Other packages that have an email scanner scan it as it is being downloaded. It is essentially the same thing.

 

[OVERKILL]

Programs that have a "mail scanner" typically set up a local proxy of sorts. This works a mail pass-through (it's a transparent proxy) for the mail client, but the mail is scanned as it passes through the proxy, so the data is scanned before it ever touches your hard drive.

In contrast, the free version of Avira (the full version has a mail scanner) would simply use the on-access protection to scan the file as it's written to the hard drive (if setup in this manner) or when the file is accessed through the mail client.

There IS however (and I have observed this with Norton and McAfee in the past without the e-mail scanning plugin) the possibility of the infection taking a hold of the system when the file is accessed before the antivirus software can stop it. It is situations like this where the transparent mail proxy is beneficial.

 

[Propflux01]

Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
Originally Posted By: Greggy_D
Just stripped this piggy off my in-laws computer and installed Avira AntiVir.


Very wise move.

Now that AVG 8 incorporates linkscanner, it makes browsing painful. I recently tried linkscanner - AWFUL. Slowed my browser to a crawl.


just disable it, then select "Ignore this warning"

 

[Buffman]

They did listen and now through advanced options during installation you can remove that stupid link scanner, rather than letting it install then disabling it then ignoring it's state. I ended up switching over since it's Free, and now that the Link Scanner is gone, it performs better.

 

[97tbird]

AVG still behaving ....

 

[unDummy]

Never misbehaved here. And, glad to see linkscanner doesn't need to be installed. Had it disabled since its inception and no complaints, not a resource hog, and AVG doesn't slow me down 1 bit.