I use AVAST and am pretty happy with it - I too gave up on AVG a few years ago.
I find Avast to be pretty good, not too intrusive and I haven't had a single virus issue in three years on 5 different machines. But the clincher for me is that on Talk Like A Pirate Day, all of the Avast dialogs do talk like a pirate. And what could be better than that, me hearties? On 18 March 2011 09:36, Greg Kennedy <gkenne...@gmail.com> wrote: > When you go to the security essentials homepage you can also be one of the > first to try the IE9 beta (banner) > ;) > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Chris Walsh <ch...@walshie.me> wrote: > >> Microsoft Security Essentials works fine. >> >> >> >> *From:* ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto: >> ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] *On Behalf Of *Greg Keogh >> *Sent:* Friday, 18 March 2011 9:29 AM >> *To:* 'ozDotNet' >> *Subject:* [OT] Anti-Virus replacement for AVG >> >> >> >> Folks, after much web browsing, discussion and head-scratching about a >> year ago I picked AVG free edition over the dozens of choices. It seemed to >> have a good reputation and it didn't seem too intrusive. >> >> >> >> Since then, one friend with AVG free has had a machine infected 3 times, >> another friend had 2 infections, and my wife's work machine got one hit. In >> most cases I could go into safe mode, disable the infection registry entries >> and then AVG would detect and clean the virus. One machine was so utterly >> screwed twice that it had to be formatted each time. In all cases AVG was >> disabled or deleted by the infection. >> >> >> >> AVG seems to be worse than useless, so I'm wondering what AV product >> people here recommend for home PC use and satisfies the following specs: >> >> >> >> 1. It actually stops viruses (no kidding?!?) >> >> 2. It's not too intrusive in the UI (banners, popups, tray icons, context >> menus, etc) >> >> 3. It doesn't have side-effects (degrades performance, conflicts with >> other apps, etc) >> >> >> >> I reckon that asking for all of these things together is too much, but I >> might find a compromise. >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Greg >> > >
