Comments on: AVG Stepping Up Consumer Anti-Virus Offerings

By: chrisv

chrisv — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:47:36 +0000

i haven’t tried AVG9. i’ve used it (free and paid) on client and server machines since 03. i’m in agreement with the author.
it really doesn’t matter much though. the bad guys are so sophisticated (and motivated) that they find a way to infect and own.
never been a fan of panda and kaspersky has let me down more than once.
educated users, solid backups, a good firewall, network intrusion detection… all good things to understand and employ.

Good luck to AVG! I’ll still be using it ~ i sure hope it’s better!

-chrisv

By: Rishabh Dangwal

Rishabh Dangwal — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:25:43 +0000

True story..happened with me too.I used to use AVG untill its updates became a pain in the ass and it used more than 50MB of memory and multiple processess. I later moved on to Nod32-comodo solution which i m using till date.
AVG needs to revamp its core in order to get back to what it used to be.

PS:Competition from Microsoft ? Are you serious ?

By: NNM

NNM — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:15:14 +0000

AVG had major problems with some computers, causing a shutdown to take 5 minutes or more. Even seem some computers (more than 1) ended up being unable to boot because of AVG.
Slowness, update problems, etc made me go away from AVG a few months ago. I did not trust its efficiency either in the end.
It will take a lot of changes for me to back to it. (+ the massive notifications caused some of my computer noobs to install the pro version and have their trial expire).

By: anony

anony — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:32:20 +0000

I’ve been using AVG for a couple of months now, and I must say it’s pretty good for being free and all. It was also the fastest out of the few AVs I tested. Its signature detections are very easy to bypass, by just modifying 1 byte it will evade detection, though I was using an online scanner (which shares results with AV vendors) to scan the modded virii, and by the next day of scanning the same modded virii, AVG now detected it. So at least they are on their toes. AVG is a great solution if you don’t feel like spending money, otherwise I would go with Kaspersky. I downloaded the free trial to try out some signature evasions and they were much harder. Even if I evaded the signature, heuristics would still catch on. When scanning my infected modified files, out of 24 AVs, Kaspersky never failed!
For worst AV, I would have to put Panda at the top of the list. It couldn’t detect any modded virii and unmodded one’s only got detected as “Unknown/Possible Threat”.

By: whitehat2k9

whitehat2k9 — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:47:29 +0000

WTF are you guys talking about? I’ll admit AVG picked up some weight with the release of 8.0, but it only got better with 8.5 (and now with this latest v9 release). It’s always been a solid antivirus, and I’ve installed it on everything from low-powered single-core machines to high-performance workstations without any slowdowns or system issues.

Additionally, your point about MS Security Essentials jumps the gun. MSE is a newcomer to the (free) AV market, and only time will tell how successful it will be. In the meantime, consumers will keep using more established free products like those from AVG, Avast, Avira, etc.

By: geek.4.fun

geek.4.fun — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:04:49 +0000

awesome, I hope AVG decided to stop sucking.