Why do you think that AVG Internet Security would have done any better? Did you buy it and test it side-by-side?
Didn't think so... The issue for AVG - all versions - is the same as it is for almost every other AV program that detects mostly based on signatures, and that is that malware is altered daily or more often to bypass signature detection. Meanwhile, it's too bad Vipre can't get into any of the comparison tests that Stu cites against the competition... https://blogs.sans.org/security-leadership/2009/08/10/dont-renew-that-anti-v irus-contract/ Carl -----Original Message----- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:47 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSE is released... Well, in my *personal* opinion, the paid-for version of AVG antivirus does next to nothing against Trojans, etc. You have to have AVG Internet Security for that, apparently. I know for a fact that several Trojans have gotten onto machines on my network which have AVG Antivirus Network Edition (paid) installed. AVG *might* report that they are there, but does not remove them. I had to use MalwareBytes to remove several Trojans on machines "protected" by the paid-for verion of AVG Antivirus Network Edition. For that reason, I'm going to drop AVG when it expires and probably buy Vipre and install it instead. My only complaints about Vipre at this point are 1) It never finishes a scan on my machine, despite the fact that I have 3 Gigs of RAM. HOWEVER, I don't hold that against Vipre, as my machine is both a client AND the server. I *do* hope that a true "server" class machine would finish the scan. 2)it does NOT uninstall AVG Network Edition, despite following the instructions given by Sunbelt. Now, #2 is not a huge issue for me, as I can lay hands on virtually all the machines that I will need to install Vipre on. It's only a /small/ hassle, but it would be nice if Vipre would do as advertised and truly uninstall AVG. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 8:49 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSE is released... AVG Free is just as functional against Malware/Trojans as the paid version. There is no difference. The only things lacking in Free vs. paid is rootkit protection and additional scanning of web content. I can see wanting the rootkit protection if it's any good, the extra scanning of web content isn't worth much, since everything from the web that's going to do harm gets saved as a file first and is subject to realtime file scanning. Carl -----Original Message----- From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: MSE is released... Not to mention AVG Free does next to nothing for Malware/Trojans... for Antivirus, it's pretty good, but in my experience, while viruses *are* circulating, most of the bad stuff out there is a Trojan or other form of malware other than virus. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
