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AVG Anti Virus

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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Is it just me, or are AVG sending out WAY more little adverts to try get you to buy the full version?

I'm sure they didn't send out this many adverts before! It's driving me crazy! Has anyone got any other alternatives to AVG?

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Linux. :thumb: :D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Click to see more wrote: »
    Linux. :thumb: :D

    Doesn't protect you against phishing mind you. Many more ways to target a computer user than a simple virus.
  • Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    Avast?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mine has been quiet for a while.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ShyBoy wrote: »
    Doesn't protect you against phishing mind you. Many more ways to target a computer user than a simple virus.

    Linux + brain. ;)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Avira Antivir :-)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Haven't noticed it being that bad to be honest.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It only happens on this one computer, I notice when my mums doing stuff in Excel, it pops up at the bottom! Grrr!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Monserrat wrote: »
    Avira Antivir :-)

    Whats performance like? :)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I don't think I've ever noticed an ad from it at all, strange.
  • Saeed MSaeed M Posts: 270 The Mix Regular
    Cloud from Panda is supposed to be quite good and lightweight. I've put it on my brother's laptop and haven't had any complaints about ads so far.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Get the odd ad now and again with AVG. But hey, it's a pretty good anti-virus and it's FREE so why moan ?
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Saeed M wrote: »
    Cloud from Panda is supposed to be quite good and lightweight. I've put it on my brother's laptop and haven't had any complaints about ads so far.

    A friend mentioned that Clound Panda thing, so I installed it in a Virtual Machine I had going and the interface is really, really basic like there's nothing to tweak!

    I might give it ago, but its still in beta :(
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    NOD32 has the best scores in nearly every test, on 30 day trial though. If I was scrupuluous, I would stop abusing the trials and pay for it :p I don't think Linux is an answer in most cases, mainly because GNOME is most stupid UI ever invented, and KDE seems to be slowly dying.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    TangoWhisky wrote: »
    NOD32 has the best scores in nearly every test, on 30 day trial though. If I was scrupuluous, I would stop abusing the trials and pay for it :p I don't think Linux is an answer in most cases, mainly because GNOME is most stupid UI ever invented, and KDE seems to be slowly dying.

    Tbh Gnome isn't to bad if I'm honest but I prefer Xfce with Ubuntu
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Indrid Cold wrote: »
    Avast?

    Would you say the performance is better then AVG? I'm giving it a little run now :)
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    TangoWhisky wrote: »
    mainly because GNOME is most stupid UI ever invented, and KDE seems to be slowly dying.

    KDE is starting to come of age, IMO. I hated KDE4 when it was first released, but these later releases are getting better and better.. :)

    3 months back I'd have said all KDE4 criticism was completely warranted though. :thumb:
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I use Avira, very good and it only shows an ad when you update.
  • Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    CoolMe wrote: »
    Would you say the performance is better then AVG? I'm giving it a little run now :)
    tbh I'm not using it much, I rarely boot into windows. It's been probably years since my last full-disk search, but I don't remember it taking long. And I've seen it catch viruses on-the-fly before.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Oh right :)

    I hate it when your navigating your way through a Network drive and then AVG finds something naughty and trys to delete it >:[

    I've lost many a keygen!
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mist wrote: »
    Mine has been quiet for a while.

    After saying that it popped up a massive advert window today at a random point of time. Pah. It'd better not start doing that all the time.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mist wrote: »
    After saying that it popped up a massive advert window today at a random point of time. Pah. It'd better not start doing that all the time.

    You've Jinxxed yourself now! :D
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I get an advert once a day from Avira. The paid version just gets rid of the advert but I can live with the advert. There is a pattern to it - It's a few minutes after you boot to the Windows desktop. Say you switch on your PC at 18:00 and the advert pops up at 18:10, you'll see it at 18:10 on every subsequent day if your computer is like mine and it runs 24/7.
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