Avast or AVG?

[Bossy Monkey]

I've used both. Am using Avast at the moment, but the year is ending. I'm getting tired of "You have 12 days left! You must re-register!" Also it doesn't seem to play well with Online Armor. (Or vice-versa.) I don't remember having any problems with AVG, but there must be some reason I switched to Avast. Your thoughts? (What timing! They just warned me again.)

[jp11]

1. I liked Kapersky until they screwed me out of a year of coverage.

I tried both Avast and AVG and unfortunately I can't recall which one I had a problem with it not playing well with some other programs.

At the moment I use Commodo Defense firewall when I run windows, switched to Ubuntu and only come back to win when there is something Ubuntu won't run well enough through various means.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. I switched to MS Security Essentials recently and so far so good.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Me too-- used AVG for years but it was getting too bloated...

and slowing everything down.

Tried Avast, Avira, other stuff, but MSSE has been working great in the background for a year or so. Just did a Shields Up test, too, and everything's nice and tight.

There are two things to remember:

No one security suite will ever be able to catch everything.

Unless you have a habit of clicking through those UPS emails or the "meet local sluts" links on porn sites, most people have very little to fear from viruses, trojans, and whatever.

[lastlib]

6. I would have to differ with you on that last bit.

My mother only visits a very few websites, doesn't do any aimless surfing; she's very careful about what she clicks on, usually because I'm there helping and watching. But she got a nasty Trojan from one of those very "mainstream" sites, and it just wrecked her hard drive. Within days it was unusable, and I had to do a total wipe/re-install. Pretty messy! I keep her machine loaded w/ up-to-date anti-malware stuff now.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Point taken. But, I don't say...

that there's no danger at all, just that there's no need to be paranoid. I know some people who have so many security gizmos installed I have no idea how they get any work done. Regular backups is the plan.

BTW, besides MSSE, I've been using WinPatrol for years and it rarely alerts, but when it does it's great-- it looks for any new applications and asks if I want to keep them. It always pops up when I install something but once in a while pops up randomly when something wants to install itself. That's usually some crap from Adobe, but has been a nasty here and there and it saved me from who knows what.

That's on the XP box-- the Win7 laptop has the same sort of thing built in.

[Digit]

3. Avira free

I stopped using AVG a year or so ago.

[lastlib]

5. I've used AVG for the past year, with good results....

(...as far as I can tell). It found, and eliminated, some shit that no other program I tried even touched! I'd have to say it's well worth the price!

[SwissTony]

8. I use three in combination

rkill
malwarebytes
AVG free

run them once a week, without fail. Never had a problem.

Maybe a bit of overkill, but all three run in the background and don't slow me down.

[OriginalGeek]

9. Was also an AVG/Avast user for years

and also got tired of the constant nagging to renew (even for free).

Also switched to Microsoft Security Essentials and haven't had a problem. It stays up to date, it doesn't bother me and it seems to be working so far.

I have Malwarebytes on a flash drive for an emergency but never had to use it. yet.