Technology Anyone tried AVG antivirus ?

[lf777]

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Hey,

I am getting tired of Norton, has anybody tried this AVG free antivirus ? Norton does not scan inside .zip, and I'm getting a lot of e-mails with viruses...this should not even reach my inbox...

lf

 

[Daedalus]

I've never heard of AVG. I still have yet to find a better AV than Norton. I use 2004 right now, and I love it. I know 2003 didn't scan .zip files until you open them, but it should find anything upon opening (I'm not sure about 2004 with this) McAfee does scan .zip files as you download them...
The one thing I worry about with free or smaller-scale AV programs is updates. I work for UCLA's Network Services - we offer Sophos AV to all of our students, and I know that our office is pretty much the main contributor of virus sample files to Sophos lol. So when Sasser hit earlier this year, Norton was way ahead of Sophos in getting an update out.

 

[Idiopathic]

AVG is good. I had no problems with it.

 

[MichaelBarker]

I use AVG. It's a great free program. I would suggest it.

 

[lf777]

Thanks a lot. I'll give it a try

lf

 

[flighterdoc]

Hey,

I am getting tired of Norton, has anybody tried this AVG free antivirus ? Norton does not scan inside .zip, and I'm getting a lot of e-mails with viruses...this should not even reach my inbox...

lf

AVG is ok, but not great.

And, my version of Norton does scan zip files - do you have yours configured correctly?

 

[lf777]

Well,

I looked at the options (NAV 2004) and I don't see any mention of .zip for e-mail. Maybe I was not clear, I wanted NAV to scan .zip attachments....

lf

 

[KyGrlDr2B]

It's okay, but I just got rid of it. I had a trojan horse that kept popping up and it would never detect it. I finally got rid of it by getting mcafee.

 

[vanelo]

I have had AVG for 10 months now and it has catched every virus since. I recommend it.