At 12:34 AM 25/04/2005, Connie DeCinko wrote: >What are you basing this on? Nothing? Just a guess? The old crap of, if >it's free it can't be any good? AVG does an outstanding job and detected >virus infections where a recently updated copy of Norton did not. It keeps >itself up to date, monitors email with no intervention and has never let me >down. It has blocked several infection attempts. I am quite happy with its >performance and the price!
I'm basing it about 23 years of fixing computers (which over the last eight years or so has turned into mostly fighting viruses.) I'm a better tech than a programmer, and trust me, I've spent a huge amount of time testing virus protection options. Please read my post again, and notice that: 1)I didn't recommend Norton over NOD32. 2)I stated my statements were based on third party reviews. In my shop, I scan between five and ten computers a day - I use a combination of NOD32, FProt, NOD32, Trend, Norton, AVPersonal, and Sophos. Of these, NOD32 does the best job in the speed and detection department. For about six months, we ran AVG in the mix to see how it would do. We ran it for awhile as the first scanner (and the others consistently found viruses it missed) and then we ran it as the last scanner (where it consistently found nothing, proving it added nothing to the mix.) We pulled it as not being worth the time. I'm glad you think it's working for you, but I'll bet that if you brought your machine to our shop, we'd find viruses you didn't know you had - I see this happen regularly with AVG and Norton users - less so with NOD32 users. T --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Anti-Virus] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:204236 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
