AVG 8 free

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Tommy McClure wrote:
>
>> Have a buddy in the business, claims AVG 8 free is much faster than
>> anything else he has.
>
> Faster than .. what else does he have?
>
>> Any comments?
>
> Search these groups for articles with "AVG8" in the subject line. That
> should tell you a lot about the product.

I think he's pulling my leg. He has been using AVG 7.5 free.

Tommy McClure wrote:

> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> Tommy McClure wrote:
>>> Have a buddy in the business, claims AVG 8 free is much faster than
>>> anything else he has.
>>
>> Faster than .. what else does he have?
>>
>>> Any comments?
>>
>> Search these groups for articles with "AVG8" in the subject line.
>> That should tell you a lot about the product.
>
> I think he's pulling my leg. He has been using AVG 7.5 free.

From what I've read, I'd guess so, too. Some of the postings were
complaining about how AVG8 has slowed their Windows to a crawl.

Tell him to get Avast .. or switch to an OS that doesn't need anti-virus
applications. (That would certainly improve the speed, eh?)

--
-bts
-Friends don't let friends drive Windows

"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous.TakeThisOut@example.invalid> wrote in message
news:g2u4dk$ihb$2@registered.motzarella.org...
> Tommy McClure wrote:
>
>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>> Tommy McClure wrote:
>>>> Have a buddy in the business, claims AVG 8 free is much faster than
>>>> anything else he has.
>>>
>>> Faster than .. what else does he have?
>>>
>>>> Any comments?
>>>
>>> Search these groups for articles with "AVG8" in the subject line.
>>> That should tell you a lot about the product.
>>
>> I think he's pulling my leg. He has been using AVG 7.5 free.
>
> From what I've read, I'd guess so, too. Some of the postings were
> complaining about how AVG8 has slowed their Windows to a crawl.
>
> Tell him to get Avast .. or switch to an OS that doesn't need anti-virus
> applications. (That would certainly improve the speed, eh?)
>

I tried Avast and thought it was extremely slow. I went instead to NOD32
and AVG on my various machines.

Tommy McClure wrote:
> Have a buddy in the business, claims AVG 8 free is much faster than
> anything else he has.
>
> Any comments?
>
> --
> tommy
>
>
I have AVG 8.0 running on XP MCE 2005 SP3.
It works fine. I opted not to load the email scanner and the
linkscanner is disabled.
If you don't turn off the link scanner, when you open IE and do
something like a google, every link gets scanned and checked for
validity. A nice feature but that takes time. If you have a
horrendously fast PC and a great internet, then leave it enabled.

Other than that AVG works. Both versions have been altered in the past
months to be a bit more sensitive to viruses, which is good, but, I've
had some old programs (old old) that are not considered virus. You can
mark them as an exception, but it points out that both 7.5 and 8.0 are
more sensitive.

In article <g36mpo$jbb$1@registered.motzarella.org>, BigAl RemoveThis @md.com
says...

> If you don't turn off the link scanner, when you open IE and do
> something like a google, every link gets scanned and checked for
> validity. A nice feature but that takes time. If you have a
> horrendously fast PC and a great internet, then leave it enabled.

I have good Comcast cable connection and beefy enough PC. The link
scanner slowed my surfing by 2/3. Made it into DSL
I nuked that feature in a hurry.

MM

Tommy McClure wrote:

> Have a buddy in the business, claims AVG 8 free is much faster than
> anything else he has.
>
> Any comments?
>
> --
> tommy

I don't know about your buddy, but after installing AVG 8, my computer slowed

down to a crawl. It was using close to 100 per cent cpu, with no other
processes
loaded. I did not have this problem with AVG 7.5 and I am sorry I upgraded.

Of course Grisoft is going to pull the plug on 7.5 in a few months anyways.

What made me more frustrated was that using either the AVG uninstaller or
Windows Add/Delete program software, I was getting errors preventing me
from unloading the AVG 8.0. I just took a hammer to it and stripped out
all
file and registry references. Programs like this are scary. Now I have
to search
for a new replacement for AVG. I am running an 1.3 gig cpu with 500 meg
of
ram and windows 2000. Certainly enough horse power to handle a anti-virus

program.