AVG Free or NOD32

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Im looking for a anti virus to use , about to format my computer and i want maximum secuirity, which one is better , AVG Free or Nod32

Ps, i dont want people recommending other AV's
 
NOD32 .... it's no contest, uses less resources than AVG, but is extreemly powerful, fastest hard drive scans EVER! Multiple defininition updates daily. Only drawback, it don't play nice with Azureus, so if you use that p2p program you'll need to follow the advice on their website for NOD32, it's easily fixable, other than that I've used it for 3 years and it's the best AV program I've ever used.
 
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I don't know why people say its the "best anti-virus they have used" when really you shouldn't ever have to actually use it at all. You install it and it does the rest. If it finds a virus you click one button and its gone.

NOD32 doesn't play nice with an increasing number of things these days it seems. I have never had a problem with AVG Free. It takes hardly any resources either. Plus its got that magical word... FREE!!!
 
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Hasn't these "whats the best anti-virus/firewall" threads been done to death hundreds of times already!

Try the search button :p ;)
 
Another vote for AVG - I've used it for years on a combination of desktop and laptop machines, and never had a single issue with updating, and I've never had a virus or anything on any of those machines. For free, I dont think you can beat it. :)
 
UJM said:
NOD32 .... it's no contest, uses less resources than AVG, but is extreemly powerful, fastest hard drive scans EVER! Multiple defininition updates daily. Only drawback, it don't play nice with Azureus, so if you use that p2p program you'll need to follow the advice on their website for NOD32, it's easily fixable, other than that I've used it for 3 years and it's the best AV program I've ever used.
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Absolute total and utter agreement.

Its got a tiny footprint on your system

Uses hardly any resources (AT LEAST HALF of other competitors)

Hasn't let anything through my machine (home or here at work) in 12 months

Its very reasonably priced

It doesn't pop up on screen every two seconds telling what its doing, it simply gets on with it and does it bloody well.! :D

Regards

AndyOcUK
OcUK Tech ;)
 
~I will second that for NOD32

lets just say used to use AVG, was fine until one day PC was infected, AVG said clean no infections , tried another batch of programs, out of the 3 major i tried they all found the infection.

result

AVG7 - dropped

ended up getting NOD32 due to footprint etc
 
Seconded on all the above.

Agree 100% about what dbmzk1 says about NOD32 too! - its true. You dont use NOD, you just install it and it does the rest... Forget about ever needing to worry about viruses again.

Both are great AVs

AVG Beats NOD32 but only in that its free. ( The Free version that is )

NOD32 Beats AVG on everything else however.
 
dbmzk1 said:
I don't know why people say its the "best anti-virus they have used" when really you shouldn't ever have to actually use it at all. You install it and it does the rest. If it finds a virus you click one button and its gone.

NOD32 doesn't play nice with an increasing number of things these days it seems. I have never had a problem with AVG Free. It takes hardly any resources either. Plus its got that magical word... FREE!!!
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You would be surprised at just how many people have AV software to fix problems rather than have it installed as a way of preventing issues.
Because they think they might lose 3fps in their games or their benchmarks will be a little bit lower than somebody elses's they will run without the various autoprotect features and then hope their AV software can fix things when it all goes wrong.
Scary, but true....
 
stoofa said:
You would be surprised at just how many people have AV software to fix problems rather than have it installed as a way of preventing issues.
Because they think they might lose 3fps in their games or their benchmarks will be a little bit lower than somebody elses's they will run without the various autoprotect features and then hope their AV software can fix things when it all goes wrong.
Scary, but true....
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Thats so true!

Seen it too many times, and yet, I have never noticted one single frame per anything ever being dopped.

Those people I often find however, are ones that assume all AVs are as ****-poor and memory hungry as norton etc

Come to think of it, if it is a choice of norton or take a risk, then Id rather take the risk.
 
FUNTY said:
AVG here, never had any problems over 3 years. Great little prog.
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Install NOD32 and you will find viruses !

Use search people it even has the same title
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17626176

As i have said previously about AVG its free for a reason....mainly it aint very good at what its supposed to do. AVG will miss things that NOD32 and other BETTER AV progs pick up.

IMO AVG = No Protection at all
 
gizmoy2k said:
Install NOD32 and you will find viruses !

Use search people it even has the same title
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17626176

As i have said previously about AVG its free for a reason....mainly it aint very good at what its supposed to do. AVG will miss things that NOD32 and other BETTER AV progs pick up.

IMO AVG = No Protection at all
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Agreed - You get what you pay for. lol ;)
 
I have tried Avast, Nod32 and Kaspersky

Im currently trialing Bit Defender and would recommend this over any of the above at this time,

With the added bonus that you get 2 licenses for 2 years for £27.00
 
AVG here, been using it for years and I never get any virus.. I also have NOD32 installed on a few machines... It's good to but I prefer AVG as I find NOD32's interface a bit confusing..
 
FatRakoon said:
Thats so true!

Seen it too many times, and yet, I have never noticted one single frame per anything ever being dopped.

Those people I often find however, are ones that assume all AVs are as ****-poor and memory hungry as norton etc

Come to think of it, if it is a choice of norton or take a risk, then Id rather take the risk.
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Until just recently I used Norton.
To be honest I still don't feel that it causes any problems, certainly nowhere near as many as people seem to think.
So Norton sits in 20MB of memory - when your average user has 1GB of memory these days 20MB is really nothing.
I've also run the benchmarks, the gaming tests with both Norton on full auto-protect and with it not - the differences were really minimal.

I'm a NOD32 user now (bought a license for 3 years for 3 machines a little while ago) but I would honestly take any AV software running in memory over nothing at all.
All it takes is one little mistake (which anyone can make) and you can get infected so easily.
 
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