Re: AVG or Avast ?



Uncle Grumpy wrote:
"D." <wdstk69@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

hello ,
I've decided to abandon ship on mcafee .
I'm wondering whether i should go with
avg or avast . are there any major
differences between the two ?

I got pelted by so many updates with Avast ...

Heaven forbid an AV should get updates.

and I think they all
required a reboot,

You don't think, then. Avast only needs a reboot after a program update.

so I dumped it and went back to AVG.

I don't think you've ever used Avast and you're just making it up as you go along.

Alias
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