Kylde. How can AVG be the best when it's ranked 10 and Norton AntiVirus of which I use is ranked 5 above it? If you've read it closely it says as directly quoted from the article:
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,124490,00.asp# "Upshot: Limited features and poor performance make AVG Free Edition an inferior choice even among the free antivirus products." There is no mention of the system requirements for AVG of which I always check first before installing any software product. For its rank 10 and performance fair I can come to the obvious conclusion: that the utility is poorly designed, wriiten and a big resource hog when it comes to its performance. No matter how flashy its UI or easy a program is to use doesn't outweigh how it will perform on any given system. Any program can have a well designed UI and ease of use but its just icing on the cake when it comes to seeing the real real issue behind the program: performance and resource allocation. I think some users mistakenly equate ease of program use with good performance which isn't a true asumption at all. Just like comparing a Porche to a Formula F1 the F1 has much more HP than the Porche becuase the F1 is a high performance race car as the Porche is a very expensive sports car. Sure it may have a lot of HP and drives very well but not like that of the F1. It depends on how the program was written, designed and how efficiently it uses system resources just as what's under the hood of a car: its the engine, susspension and areodynamics that realy makes a difference in performance. So how can PC world be in disagreement with me on this point? I think not and for this fact I stand correct. Still IMHO AVG is clogware that will give a system a case of constipation that can be very irritating to any PC user :) Marc Sims Data Technician I Prince George's Community College >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/19/06 6:25 PM >>> I can't agree. I use AVG on my daughter's lowly duron 800 and there is NO slowdown (& the OP himself stated the slowdown is only recent). Also, Outpost is a firewall, not an AV, so how can they conflict with each other (although granted, running ANY 2 AV apps at the same time would be asking for trouble)? And PC World also disagree with you, AVG is in their top 10 of 2006 <http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,124475,00.asp>. I'd be looking at a hardware issue, and/or removing & re-installing AVG Marc Sims wrote on 19/04/2006, 18:40: > The culprit for the system slow down is AVG itself. Especially if your > using AVG with any other Anti-virus software > including OutPost it will clog your system and consume multiple cpu > cycles. -- Regards Kylde -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
