-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 5/12/2013 12:25 PM, Gregory Nowak wrote: > I'm just curious, where are you getting these various recommendations > from? Word of mouth, or one or more sites? If sites, which ones? https://www.techsupportalert.com/security-wizard-infection-check.htm > > I had a look at: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_antivirus_software > > and it seems that MSE doesn't provide boot time scanning, and web > protection. While AVG doesn't provide as much as other scanners, it > does provide those two. That, along with the fact that I haven't had > problems with AVG so far would still prompt me to choose it over MSE, > but that's just my personal choice of course. I read from a site now gone (the Langa List) that several months went by with no AVG updates and no word as to why. I clearly remember registering AVG before it would run. It was free of charge but required a yearly renewal. I think I had to give them an email address for an unlock code, but I could be misremembering that part. This was all several years ago. I used Avast once and didn't like it, but I don't recall it requiring registration. Nod32 has been recommended several times by GW Micro and you can search the gw-info list archives. I used to have good luck with Norton Antivirus as far as accessibility but now Norton Internet Security has a totally different interface and I couldn't use it at all. After I installed ClamWin and was determining whether to dump AVG and switch to ClamWin as my primary virus scanner, I did a full system scan. What's interesting about that is how much less resources ClamWin used. It found about a dozen viruses totally missed by AVG. They were not active. They were email attachments which I didn't open and Eudora had saved before I switched to Thunderbird. > > Yes, AVG is free for personal use, but not for business. It's been this > way since I started using it in the 6.x days: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVG_(software)#Versions_for_Windows_desktop_clients > > If there's a nominal fee, I'm not aware of it. I'm using it just > fine, and haven't been asked once by AVG for a credit card number. No, not for personal use. I wasn't asked either, but I'm pretty sure it showed an ad to upgrade to the pro version. I don't think the pro version is still around as I don't see it mentioned anywhere. > > From what I know, avast requires one to register, even though it's > free. Nothing wrong with that, but if I have to choose between free > alternatives which require me to register, and those that don't, I'll > naturally go with those that don't, as long as they work for me. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJRkKW8AAoJEPrAuJWnLe0ywJMQAKuHbC76Ky+4iWvgKaBdKxo0 8/vsutNKODxxDMXs/Ji1ZTZn5dsqvfVwgkMjCtNktG+iDBuCLnJc0z66nIWuQ8dl GlU8xZLE2FsOi47C1qE33RZHWae4mAOmQ0Ud5LxS4ZqpgclBGnfSiEJ4DTnTU6R0 DMAtCQZJD0G3rnPoegZZ2NcDvnrWCUBJcgmFnv9SUZCN5DKyYWqqORA9EH6Gt9vJ kBQ3Nly97rmpUejauPLE2K2Np7uLPRgKJSc6TRenlnA98uVAFQ0rv7z4fr3pU+Sv +/Ii18QDfi1qJh4FYJxXqPyIJniCpSoAEc6IprtAkoWwVVmdzNTU7sqmIDHNGLna pkB+k/A4PcWNljN5oqglv/URAxWMC8nec0Ndmk5n7ofWOsl993mfvZ94E4sdjJ5H 9q4PVNpZ+Jqhee20AHh4t47w8aqIPrh0elMoqT7ZYeI2U44MLdvS+vbSv3lpQqiU d9gVvIOnAPfoYgYZxZPiZvDjtdSfJqhqxvtJ3Yq688hMjnyGfpHKBY71+RznxwTg IIACnKDAd5uGaJzF8VQMh/RRoQeBRs1HAw6kzhCWy5O1wwZdfjM4Df69c04vFoOa HXGl1rQsswTyT8n9/v1X7eXzXBDFyN5L6oCgnDGvg1opQW7AXYMNQfv8HG/jGNoX sA9mmYh834wNoNyWqqmJ =qv3u -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
