AVG Free and AVG Anti-Spyware are good. I believe they have no-cost open source downloads at their site. You can buy it too, but I think the main difference when you pay for it, is that you have to do your own updates. With the AVG Free, I believe you can schedule the updates for a time of day where you'd not typically be on the computer. Hope this helps.
wwyi62 said:
I've ran AVG Free for a few years... good stuff. They just sent a msg stating that afer the 18FEB they are discontinuing updates so you'll have to buy if you want new updates.
This also means they probably are releasing a new virus onto the internet a few days before or after this date--bastards lol.
I'm gonna be pretty pissed of they do create a virus for those dates... my computer is connected with a large network and... yeah it's gonna suck balls with our information compromised.
I've used Norton before AVG and it was good... updates were easy but hard on the computer. Took up a lot of RAM. Good all-around quality though. My companies use McAfee at this time and it's not so bad either.
gitty44, Jetplane, I believe, and I could be wrong about this, but I believe AVG remains free for personal use on a single home computer after February 18th, if one is okay with doing one's own updates. At their site their is a breakdown of what you get for free and then also a list of the extras you get if you pay to subscribe. My impression of it is the free version is fine for most personal use, but as I say, I could have this wrong as I only glanced at the site. Keep this thread going and check in once in a while with whatever any of us learns and we should have it figured out soon enough . . . thanks for posting the thread.
www.avast.com is a good one 2
Avg
AVG will continue to be free after Feb 18, they are just moving to a new version (7.5 from 7.1).Info on the new one is here . I know lots of people that use AVG with no problem, but anti-virus to me is too important to be left to a free program. I recommend Mcafee, Trend Micro, or Kaspersky. Anything but Norton
AVG will continue to be free after Feb 18, they are just moving to a new version (7.5 from 7.1).Info on the new one is here . I know lots of people that use AVG with no problem, but anti-virus to me is too important to be left to a free program. I recommend Mcafee, Trend Micro, or Kaspersky. Anything but Norton
