Re: I HAVE TAKEN BACK MY COMPUTER!!

I am a professional computer tech in a busy shop.
Norton Products, McAfee fail in 10 out of the last 10 infected computers
that clients have brought to me this past week to 10 days.
AVG (updated) outperforms both products is all areas, (detection, clean
rate, intrusiveness of system, ease of updates)


"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:gFnEg.63289$u11.17548@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <ufnQl8IwGHA.4416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, stand@attention
says...

You don't get out much do you Leythos? AFTER using McAfee and
Norton, AVG was my salvation. Who needs all of the bloatware of
McAfee and Norton/Symantec?

Actually, I get out a lot, we manage three Sororities networks and some
1500 other seats for clients.

Most of the Sorority residents, over the last 3 years, have used AVG,
more than half, and in the last year, only the AVG protected computers
were compromised by viruses/trojans - one was even had a SMTP engine,
another a a Flood virus, etc....

The machines in those installations running McAfee or Norton or Symantec
or CA (provided by the schools), didn't experience compromise last year.

I also have two remote friends that protect their home computers with
AVG and their kids computers have been compromised by IM related malware
several times this year.

A similar group of family/kids running Norton have not been impacted in
the last year.

So, tell me I don't get out much all you want, but I see this as a
larger sample base than most people posting here.

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