AVG 8 or Avast!

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I've been recommending AVG to people for years as I found it slightly faster than Avast! when I tried it, but since AVG 8 came out various people who listened to me have been having problems with it, either it hanging or not updating or slowing things down too much.

I'm still on 7.5 so I haven't had any of these problems, but now Grisoft have stopped offering free updates on 7.5 so it's time to move on, so I'm thinking I should go for Avast! instead. Has anyone here also had problems with AVG 8? Is it really broken, or are my various friends and relatives utter computer noobs? :p How does Avast! compare to it.
 
I've had lots of problems with AVG 8 freezing, updating and generally running very slowly. Always been a huge fan of AVG Free back to the days of version 5 and 6 but I'm very disappointed with the new version and don't use it any more.
 
Avast and Avira, I think are the best free antivirus softwares around at the moment, certainly quite a bit better than AVG....
 
Another vote for Avast. I had put AVG on my brother's PC a while ago, but he had lots of problems with it. It could find various viruses on his machine but was unable to remove or clean it.

Stuck Avast on and sorted it out in 20 mins. Never gone back since.
 
I use AntiVir now, AVG is utter garbage as i discovered when i switched, did a scan of all me drives with AVG, and perfectly clean, did a scan of them all with AntVir when i switched, and 30+ trojans etc.... detected, so god knows how long id had those on for.
 
Used to use AVG for a long while on all the windows computers I own but recently changed to Avast and been pleased with it so far
 
I used to use AVG a lot but the latest version is horrible. I now use Avast which I think is the best free AV you can get.
 
Avira. Shockingly good detection rates scored by the non-free version. Free one just misses out on a few live scanning features is all, still on access scanning tho.
 
Independant tests show Avira [and Avast, to a lesser extent] outquaffing almost all the payware competition. Avira also has a very low overhead.

EDIT: and before anyone starts carping about nag screens, check this link out for ways to legally disable it.
 
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