AVG 9 Issues (Time for new AV) Suggestions?

Kyo · 27 Nov 2009 at 10:56

Hi

For those of you using AVG it appears the Dec 1st cut off point is not too far off for those who still on 8.5, Just did a clean installation of AVG 9 (not upgrade) and can see immediately a hit on my system (apparently it cache scan the drives in the first instance) that why your HD is working OT, does this and eventually settles down once it built up this scan.

My problems posted here was narrowed down to using AVG 9

. Might just switched to another AV to avoid these issues.

I can see there quite a lot of useful free prog listed in the sticky, might give Avast a try , anyone know if this is a good choice or have better suggestions. Running it on home pc and no server so nothing fancy.

Cheers
Kyo

millsy888 · 27 Nov 2009 at 10:59

I've used Avast and it did work well, but i'm currently using Microsoft Security Essentials. Seems to be working really well so i'm sticking with it for a while.

http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

Kyo · 27 Nov 2009 at 11:06

millsy888 said:
I've used Avast and it did work well, but i'm currently using Microsoft Security Essentials. Seems to be working really well so i'm sticking with it for a while.

http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

I seen this mentioned by quite a few folk, is it really that good?

btw you aren't Swift per chance from CSS? recognise your millsy alias

SiriusB · 27 Nov 2009 at 11:11

Can't be any worse than the others. The only complaint I have heard is it is a little slow at scanning. Set it to do it after you are in bed and who cares?

Worth a try.

millsy888 · 27 Nov 2009 at 11:15

Kyo said:
I seen this mentioned by quite a few folk, is it really that good?

btw you aren't Swift per chance from CSS? recognise your millsy alias

Not me i'm afraid. I'm guilty of never playing CSS :eek:

Corasik · 27 Nov 2009 at 14:13

I gave up on AVG at version 8.0, such a resource hog compared with 7.x. Initially I switched to Avast which is lightweight fast and just fine, and now I use Microsofts Security Essentials and it seems fine.

AVG 8 was just grabbing the cpu and hogging it like crazy, even web browsing was a nightmare.

Good riddance to bad rubbish, thats what I say.

m4cc45 · 27 Nov 2009 at 14:20

Microsoft Security Essentials. Found it to be a hell of a lot better than the other 'free' ones out there.

M.

ThundyCat · 27 Nov 2009 at 14:25

There is a huge AV thread here.

TC