Re: AVG or Avast ?

Phisherman wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:21:47 -0500, "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 ?
thank you ,
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I use free AVG on a Vista machine and free AVAST! on an XP machine. No
problems with either application. If you have two PCs, there is an
advantage having two different applications in that it is less likely
both machines will become infected by the same virus. As stated many
times, use only one anti-virus application on any single PC.

Have used both, but settled for Avast for the past two years on a couple of machines, one running XP Home and the other Vista. It works quietly in the background, virus sig updates can happen 2 or 3 times a day and never need a reboot. The only indicator is a slightly American voice quietly announcing, "Virus database has been updated." I find it kind of reassuring, which it's no doubt meant to be. Very rarely there is also a program update and that may require a reboot. I think both are excellent considering they are free, but Avast seems to have greater configurability (IS there such a word?). Seriously, you can use it without problems - at least that has been my experience for a couple of years now.

Hope this is helpful,

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Peter in New Zealand. (Email address is fake)
Collector of old cameras, tropical fish fancier, good coffee nutter, and compulsive computer fiddler.
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