I did get a nasty virus a couple of years ago, while I was using AVG, and I had to slap in a new harddrive, and reinstall, and then I installed Microsoft Security Essentials, which is a free download, and I scanned and repaired the old drive, and have been not using AVG ever since. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at linux-speakup.org> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 7:35 PM Subject: Re: Windows bashing was: Re: Voxin was: Re: Switching to Linux On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 01:13:16AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote: > AVG is now pretty much dead and it > was the antivirus which totally made my machine come to a complete stop at > 8 AM daily. OK, it turned out that it's a scheduling "feature" which is > part of AVG, but I couldn't turn it off. I could change when it ran, but > no matter what, it was going to do a full virus scan every day whether I > liked it or not. So much for me controlling the machine, but that's > typical Windows behavior. What do you mean when you say that AVG is pretty much dead? I use AVG-free on one of my machines here, and it still seems to be very much alive. It has definition updates daily as far as I can tell. It also seems to come out with a minor version upgrade about every half a year, and with a major version upgrade about once a year. As far as your box locking up, you must have been running on a very old machine. I'm running AVG-free 2013 on a 2.2GHz pentium IV single core with no hyperthreading, and one gig of RAM. The machine doesn't fly while doing virus scanning, but it's still quite useable, and fairly responsive. As far as scheduling full virus scans, it is possible to schedule both how often AVG-free runs them, and at what time of day. I have mine scheduled to run once a week for instance. Guess what? You can even turn off full virus scanning completely if you don't want it to run at all on any schedule. I'm not trying to defend AVG-free. Like many things, it isn't perfect. I do know from personal experience though that your statements above aren't correct regarding the latest version of AVG-free. As far as controlling your machine, I'll admit that windows doesn't give you as much control as GNU/Linux does. Having said that, I still maintain that windows, and AVG-free give the user quite a bit of control. I would say it gives the user more control than it doesn't. It's just a matter of knowing what to set, and where, and the internet is your friend here if your own knowledge comes up short. Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at linux-speakup.org http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
