I just stumbled upon this forum and the Avast software and as a newbie I’ve a comparison question. For those of you who have used AVG anti-virus software. How does the free home edition of Avast compare in terms of performance, ease of use, frequency of updates with AVG? Thanks.
In a few words > it’s better !
I used AVG free , AVG 6 professional, AVG 7.0 full (trial).
Updates are much faster, and minimum 2 / week (AVG updates less frequent)
It’s almost childsplay to use (especially home edition).
It has a much better detecion rate than AVG (wich scores bad in overall testings)
Support of AVAST is awsome ! really is !
AVAST saved my sorry ass multiple times now ! incredible.
It kicks right between the balls of AVG !
Only 1 choise, make no mistake my friend > AVAST! 4 HOME / PRO
Waldo
I agree with Waldo. I have used Nortons, Mcafee, AVG and now I use Avast Pro. I will not use anything else ever. Support for Avast is awsome Avast Pro rocks
AVG seems to require a schedule to update and run - I am hoping Avast does everything automatically.
I just manually updated and it downloaded an update - why wasn’t that automatically done prior to me checking? The old was from 08/22/03, today is 8/26…would think there was something in the last 4 days?
Waldo is correct again… Need more reasons? See
http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=777;start=new
and
http://www.avast.com/forum/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=611;start=new
If I were you, I´ll not in doubt: avast is better 8)