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Hi Dennis: I use AVG and I also get Lothian's letter. I have not
experienced the problems you mentioned. I use the free (what else) version.
Maybe I'm just lucky or maybe it's not doing a great job of detection.
Regards, Jack.
----- Original Message -----
From: "DH" <catapult@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Omega List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 4:25 PM
Subject: Buh-bye AVG
A few years back, based on recommendations from this list, I switched from
Norton Antivirus to AVG Free. Norton had turned into bloatware and was
really slowing down my system. Since then AVG has become more and more
intrusive, to the point that it would lock up my CPU for a minute or more
with the latest version. Just viewing and deleting the John Lothian
newsletter was painfully slow. AVG had to go. I read all the current
reviews and I was tempted to go back to Norton because this year's version
is supposedly lean and mean. But I just don't trust Norton given their
recent history. I may go back to them sometime but not yet.
I'm currently demoing VIPRE and I'm impressed. It runs with a very small
footprint and my computer is running much faster. It combines antivirus
and antispyware in a single program and that's a plus. My first scan was a
quick scan that only took a few minutes. It found a low-risk adware
program that Realplayer had installed ages ago -- 55 instances of the dang
thing in my registry. AVG, Spybot S&D and Ad-aware had all missed it. Then
I ran a full scan, which took about 3 hours, and it didn't find anything
else. A full scan in AVG took about 12 hours and it didn't have any quick
scan option so I seldom scanned my system. I'll be buying a VIPRE license
(cheap) when the demo period is up.
http://www.vipreantivirus.com/
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Dennis
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avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean.
Virus Database (VPS): 090819-0, 08/19/2009
Tested on: 8/19/2009 4:31:18 PM
avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software.
http://www.avast.com
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avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean.
Virus Database (VPS): 090819-0, 08/19/2009
Tested on: 8/19/2009 5:17:52 PM
avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software.
http://www.avast.com
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