AVG Free is now 8.0; bloatware or no?

[generalj]

how cool would it be to have a google antivirus product, I think google needs to get us one. lol

 

[Crgky127]

Meh, look what happened to norton when it tried to do too much.

 

[jaross18]

I don't have a problem with AVG. AVG 8.0 isn't made to be installed on 9 year old systems. It was made to be installed on todays systems.

Thats like installing Norton 360 or Vista on a system that has 256 or 512 MB of RAM. Its going to run slowwwww.

When users buy a cheap computer from the store, they are coming with 2GB of ram and a dual core processor. Installing AVG 8.0 on those types of systems is the same thing as installing avg 7.5 on a system that has a P3 256MB of RAM.

AVG 7.5 works great with the older systems.

AVG 8.0 works great with the new systems.

So don't try and install AVG 8.0 on a old system and expect it to be just as fast. Thats not going to happen.

AVG has great detection rules and the best part about it is that it's free.

 

[gunslinger]

I disagree with some of what is stated above. Its a resource hog or its not, just like Vista. I tested AVG 8 on a dual core system with two gigs of RAM running XP and the same spec machine running Vista and it slowed both down a lot. More so on the already crippled Vista machine.

 

[Phishie]

The reason I install AVG 8 on systems is not because their machine is new, but because I know AVG 7.5 is going to nag them to upgrade to 8.0 if I install it on their machine. I am still running 7.5 on my computer and I don't see any problems with it.

So maybe we should put it this way. People who aren't noobs who don't need 8.0 new junk and want solid performance and won't freak out when a window pops up asking them to upgrade to NEW 8.0!!! should use AVG 7.5. Other people can use 8.0.

 

[gunslinger]

Or we can spend just a little and get the king of AV programs Kaspersky.

 

[Devildog™]

I Know that it has several new components to it, and it Still misses Viruses, I uninstalled the New AVG, and installed Avast, it found the Nasties that AVG Let slip Right On By Me... So No thanks to the AVG Freebie, Not good enough to accept...

Devildog™

 

[TF_kj]

Have been testing Threatfire also, and I really like it. One of the nicest apps in awhile. But, don't use it with AVG 8 it will bog.
Just my opinion.

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[solas]

anti-virus software worth using is also worth paying for, in my opinion.

 

[techytype]

i've long ditched avg for use on friends and families machines. i setup avg, avast, and antivir on a machine and downloaded plenty of known malicious stuff, a sort of test bed. antivir came out on top here. i don't feel that an antivirus is essential for someone who knows their way around a pc, but i'll continue to install antivir on less informed user's machines which don't already have a good antivirus.

 

[Jory]

how cool would it be to have a google antivirus product, I think google needs to get us one. lol

It would be pretty awesome if they made it an online scanner and licensed detection engines from all the major anti-malware companies. I'm not going to hold my breathe though.

 

[Clatu]

I've been lucky. First off I dumped McAfee S Suite -- it took about five minutes to clear on startup and didn't detect that crazy free-virus check Virus and I paid 60.00US a year for it.
To get rid of it and it did it fast, I downloaded SuperAntiSpyware. Then A-Squared, and finally AVG (which I find to be good stuff).
Anyway, I run AVG all the time on both systems and once or twice a month I update then run A-Squared and SuperAntiVirus and they all pick-up something the others didn't re low-med risk Cookies.

 

[MSgherzi]

I'm still using an recommending AVG to my customers. I have noticed recently that it is beginning to slow things down. I love AVGs ability to catch almost anything, though. I've been using AVG for almost 5+ years and I love it. But I'm starting to look in other directions. I'm really not sure yet but this is definitely something I should look into for not only myself, but my customers as well who don't have the fastest of computers.

 

[gunslinger]

I no longer recommend AVG to my customers. The new version slows systems down way too much. But, I have noticed most people are getting used to bloated slow Vista systems anyway so maybe they can't tell any difference.

I used AVG on all my systems until I found Kaspersky. Its not free but its the best on the market IMO. No system slow down at all and catches everything. I love the way it actually asks you what to do with a file it thinks is infected instead of just deleting half the tools off my flash drive like AVG and Norton.

 

[Romaniac]

Avira AntiVir FTW!

Avira AntiVir is what I have been using.

http://www.avira.com/en/download/index.html

Pretty low resource usage.
Maybe scan is slow or not, not sure how to gauge that but I really don't care for scan speed - not a priority by any means.

It has caught a couple of bad guys though, and it's been doing a good job.

I did research before deciding upon it. I found what seemed like a legit source. There were side by side tests and tables; it came in 1st usually, or maybe 2nd a few times...but if it did in 2nd, it was beaten by paid antivirus.

I remember for me (and free) it was Avast vs. Avira. Almost went with Avast, until I found some more research, and went with Avira.

 

[lawson_jl]

Bloatware hands down. It does perfom better if you turn of the link scanner but it's still bloated and slow like most old AV programs are.

 

[usacvlr]

avg is garbage at t his point. It's almost as bad as any of the norton or mccraply products. Just a big fat pig eating up clock cycles and memory.

 

[abe]

hi all,
don't get me wrong, I belive what your saying about avg I just wanna see it with my own eyes, I have a p4 2.8 ghz 1gb ram with xp, a dual core 2gb ram with dual vista/win7, an asus eeepc 900a e.g ghz atom and 1gb ram, a 1.3ghz celeron 512ram, all running avg 8 and I don't see any slowness, it detects bad stuff, I scan at night when not in use and it does its job well
so how can I see how many cycles of the cpu its using (it dosnt take a lot of ram at all)

 

[usacvlr]

Do you have the resident portion turned off? That's the real hog.

 

[abe]

no its on thats what i need it for, i scan once a week at nightso i dont really know how slow it is in scanning.