like to try avast home,do i need to uninstall avg 7.0

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Hi i am running avg 7.0 free at present,no problem,but would like to try out avast as i hear it has a better detection rate over avg is that true?.
Must i uninstall avg completely before installing avast,as i f i do not get on with it i will have to download avg again?
Thanks

southern man

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Hi Southern Man,

Two anti-virus programs will fight on your computer like two dogs over a bone.

If you’re going to try avast!, uninstall any other AV first.

If you still have the installation file on your computer, you can use it again to reinstall avg if you want to go back.

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With AVG 6 that was not a problem. However with AVG7 I believe there is a conflict. But give Avast a try for a week or three and I believe you will be impressed. It will entail uninstalling AVG, and if your firewall is ZA Pro there is a conflict but you will be warned when you install Avast there is no conflict though with ZA Free. Welcome to the Avast world

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You can configure avast as the resident and AVG without ANY resident and ANY pluggin (email) installed.
Disabling it does not work. You can’t have AVG resident/plugin installed.

avast is not a good (even easy to configure) as a second, backup scanner…
avast is a good resident 8)

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It is not adviseable to have two resident on-access scanners on the same system, even if one is disabled, there may still be drivers and other registry entries active that can cause conflict. This isn’t just between avast and avg but any two on-access scanners.

I would say that avast’s detection is a little better than avg, but there are other features that avg doesn’t have which also increase overall protection and avast is extremely configurable.

So the short answer is you would need to uninstall avg and reboot before installing avast.

There is a way to use avg as a secondary back-up scanner (courtesy of Tech) but that would still entail initially uninstalling it.

AVG - As Backup Scanner.

  1. Install avast. Boot. Setup all providers as you want/need. Update, etc.
  2. Boot
  3. Install AVG using a customized install and NOT INSTALLING any resident (not even for the email, or Outlook, etc.).
  4. Boot
  5. You can set the AVG services to manual to reduce resources use. You can set AVG Control to not alert about the absence of residents, etc.
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Hi
I have down as stated just got a couple of more questions

AVG - As Backup Scanner.

  1. Install avast. Boot. Setup all providers as you want/need. Update, etc.
  2. Boot
  3. Install AVG using a customized install and NOT INSTALLING any resident (not even for the email, or Outlook, etc.).
  4. Boot
  5. You can set the AVG services to manual to reduce resources use. You can set AVG Control to not alert about the absence of residents, etc.

1 I have left Shell Extention working (Windows explorer) is this okay or do I need to stop it. No probs at the moment.

2 Can i disable AVG from start up or must i allow it to start when the computer is booted.

I am using Avast pro
Windows xp home edition
Thanks for any help.

Cheers

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Hi crofty59 mate

Don’t use AVG but you should be able to use Start/run/msconfig/Select startup untick AVG startup/
reboot now or latter your choice pretty sure that will do the trick Running at startup would be of no benifit if used as non resident HTH’s

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Hi tednelly

Thanks I have now stopped AVG from starting up

Thanks mate 8)

Cheers

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Thanks everybody for your advice and help appreciated!,can i ask a broad question which most probably has been asked before, but what advantages does avast have over AVG,i am going to install avast anyway and give it a go after uninstalling avg of courses!.

southern man

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Boot-time scanning is a major one (XP, w2k, NT only), however, since we are avast users, many of us won’t know the full feature set of AVG7 so you would need to compare that with avast for home http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html.

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thanks reply,i ahve downloaded avast setup,should i now disconnect net and uninstall avg before going through set up avast,i do not want to be left open to avirus before i connect to th enet?

southern man

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Allways advisable to it that way. Don’t forget to let Avast through your firewall. It will autoupdate as soon as you go online Welcome

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avast is better in configurability, features, appearance, update (size of downloads).
From time to time, detection and update frequency.
AVG is better in speed of on-demand scanning.