VO-BB - 19 YEARS OLD!

[Rick Gordon]

I was wondering how many AVG (Grisoft.com) virus blocker users have upgraded to the new paid version and how they like it. They certainly have a great reputation with my tekky people and webmasters and I would feel a little guilty buying a competitor's product since I have used AVG on all of my computers for years.

In the VO business we tend to splash our email addys all over the Internet and therefore are a prime target for spam. Is there a better alternative to AVG?

In advance, Thanks for your input, much appreciated.
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[Dave]

Hi Rick,

I'm glad you asked this question. I have wondered about this for sometime myself. AVG (free) beats Norton and McAfee hands down IMHO.

Dave
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[davediamondprovo]

Got AVG 7.5 FREE on all my machines here.
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[glittlefield]

I'm giving ClamWin a whirl on my PC and Mac. So far, so good. My company has also had good luck with Trend products (PC-Cillin for home users) as well. It doesn't bog your machine down like McAfreeze does.

My main problem with off-the-shelf products is that they want to do it all (virus, spyware, firewall) and that usually costs you in performance.

I am also trying out AVG's spyware product as well. It's picking up files that other scanners haven't.
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[allensco]

Norton and McAfee load the system down with soooo much crap, the system is almost unusable. I've had AVG (free) on all my machines for quite some time. I also put it on all the machines at my day job (911 dispatch) and the radio station I work with part-time AND all my family and friend's computers. Just can't beat it! It's not a resource hog and updates every day AND has caught several virii trying to get on my system.

[donrandall]

I have been the victim of virus attacks and other nasty stuff - once your computer is hijacked ya tend to get a little paranoid. I began using Norton (subscription), AVG (free), Spyware Blaster (free), Win Patrol (one time fee with free updates) and Snoop Free Privacy Shield (free), Ad Aware (free) and Spybot S&D (free) in addition to the Zone Alarm (free) Firewall. Oh yeah, I also have Windows Defender (free).

I have noticed that Norton and AVG will both light up almost together if something happens that they don't like. Spyware Blaster occasionally picks up something that the others ignored - probably a matter of definitions. Snoop Free detects attempted keyboard hooking and other such things and is kinda interesting. Win Patrol is way cool - a neat little utility that does a whole bunch of things and is well worth looking into.

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