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GripeLog Poll: Which Anti-Virus Vendor Do You Trust? | 118 comments (118 topical) | Post A Comment
AVG beats NAV[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#29)
by Anonymous User on Wed Jul 14, 2004 at 08:27:00 PM PDT

Last week I have to fix a PC with about:blank problem. NAV 2004 detected 4 virus but can't clean them so I loaded AVG7 trail version to try, not only it cleaned the 4 it also found and cleaned other 4 viruses. I then ran Ad-aware 6 and CWS shredder to clean out all the spyware. The system runs much better. I told my client if her NAV expired buy a copy of AVG7.

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Norton Antivirus[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#51)
by Red Rat on Thu Aug 19, 2004 at 01:20:54 PM PDT

Several months back my subscription for Norton AV expired. Based on what I read here and there, I decided not to renew (basically all the hassels with renewal, etc). I put on an old copy of McAfee (4.51 to be exact) since this is our enterprise AV program and we are licensed to use it at home. To my surprise, in the very first scan, McAfee caught 4 virus programs on my computer. I had been running NAV for about 1 year, yet NAV let them through. I am definitely not impressed with NAV when an ancient copy of McAfee catches viruses. Also went back to Zone Alarm and have had fewer problems.

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McAfee finding viruses Norton missed[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#83)
by LasVegan on Mon Aug 01, 2005 at 01:23:49 PM PDT

Well, for years McAfee has said one machine of mine has potentially unwanted program on it. Only I know exactly what the file is that it's griping about and there's nothing one bit malware about it. I can believe it could be useful to a malware author but so can an awful lot of other things. It's a commercially-available compression routine in an OBJ file. What's an AV program doing even looking at an OBJ???

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by Anonymous User on Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 06:35:21 AM PDT

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Avg/Grisoft[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#52)
by auctionhugh on Sun Aug 29, 2004 at 06:35:40 AM PDT

My norton ran out on my son's machine and after much pondering I decided to install the free AVG by Grisoft. You need to request it, then receive an email, download through an email link, then get an activation code via another email. It took only a few minutes to install but a half hour waiting for all the emails to show up. Other than that it seems fine.

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