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Re: Buh-bye AVG


  • Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:17:51 -0700
  • From: "jack zaner" <jz@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Buh-bye AVG

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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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