I gave up on AVG a while ago because of your point #2 actually. Since then I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials. Considering I don't generally do anything that would endanger me, I can't testify as its adequacy as far as protection goes, but I liked the idea of the virus databases updating with windows update.
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, after much web browsing, discussion and head-scratching about a year > ago I picked AVG free edition over the dozens of choices. It seemed to have > a good reputation and it didn't seem too intrusive. > > > > Since then, one friend with AVG free has had a machine infected 3 times, > another friend had 2 infections, and my wife's work machine got one hit. In > most cases I could go into safe mode, disable the infection registry entries > and then AVG would detect and clean the virus. One machine was so utterly > screwed twice that it had to be formatted each time. In all cases AVG was > disabled or deleted by the infection. > > > > AVG seems to be worse than useless, so I'm wondering what AV product people > here recommend for home PC use and satisfies the following specs: > > > > 1. It actually stops viruses (no kidding?!?) > > 2. It's not too intrusive in the UI (banners, popups, tray icons, context > menus, etc) > > 3. It doesn't have side-effects (degrades performance, conflicts with other > apps, etc) > > > > I reckon that asking for all of these things together is too much, but I > might find a compromise. > > > > Cheers, > > Greg > -- Geoff Appleby Blog: http://www.crankygoblin.com/geoff Twitter: http://twitter.com/g_appleby Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/geoff.appleby
