New AVG 9 + More Protections = Still Free

avg is too weak

I’d like to know why some (like Devin) think AVG is too weak. MY family and friends have been using it for years with no problems whatsoever.

Hell Doug,
So would I. I’ve been using it for at least six years without any issues. I have also recommended AVG to family, friends and clients, also without issue.

I also have been using avg for quite a while (at least 8 years) with no problems on home built computers. I will continue to use it and will try the new version. I have installed it on a lot of other peoples to help them get great protection and save money. if it werent free a lot of these people would not have any protection.

Hello MJ Moore,
AVG and other free A/V software is needed by those who are financially unable to pay a yearly subscription.

i like avast the best, i havent tryed avg yet

Personally, I’ve been using AVG since 2003. I know it may not be the best, but it’s kept me out of trouble on more then a few occasions. I depend heavily on my sandbox, but I keep AVG around for that extra protection. It’s not that hard on resources either (which to me makes it a keeper). I think Microsoft should give the AVG company money since they, more then most others, have kept XP and up (old version even 98/ME) usable on the WWW. Microsofts not so impressive Onecare is not impressive to me, even being free. Just passing my comments on.

The AVG virus protection suite is the only one I trust. I’ve tried Norton and McAffee, but none are as fast or as simple as AVG. For my home PC, I have the full version, but for all my family and friends, I get them AVG free. Nobody who I’ve helped with AVG has ever gotten a virus and I hope it stays that way. I feel that Grisoft made a great choice by making AVG Free.

Can’t wait for version 9 so I get to go around the whole town updating!

Thanks for the additional comments everyone. AVG 9 Free will be available for download on or about October 15th. But please remember, if everyone jumps on the download site the very first day, it may damped our experience and frustrate some.

I found AVG started bogging down systems a few years ago. Me and several of my contemporaries stopped recommending AVG because of this. It also was missing some of the threats that others were picking up. We started recommending Avira, and Avast! as a one-two punch. I guess it may be time to re-evaluate AVG.

I’ve been using AVG from the beginning. As others have posted, it’s always worked great for my machines. I then use an online mal/spyware every once in a while.

It’ll be great to have antispyware & ID theft safeguards , too…

T

mid october? i need it now…

@Richard Smith: That is consistent with what I read on a Dutch forum. I’ve been trying to determine which of the ‘big three’ would suit me best, and someone on the forum said that AVG was taking 100 pct of CPU cycles at times.

I’m currently looking at Avira because it takes little resources and can do individual scan tests, while AVG and Avast can only do a scan of the entire harddisk. And Avira also scans for spyware and rootkits. Unfortunately I don’t know how effective it is, but I have not heard that it does worse than the other two. AFAIK any of these three programs will occasionally let something slip through.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see how the new AVG will be received. Looks like it’s getting a tad too bloated for my taste. Do we need another firewall? And identity theft protection seems to me unnecessary at best, if not a crock. Maybe in the US with its 19th century banking system there is a need for it, but certainly not over here.

Up to version 8 I was recommending AVG to anyone who asked but no longer as it seemed to “cripple” many people’s pcs with its demands for resources and their pcs would become simply unusable until AVG had finished scanning. I’ve no idea if they’ve corrected that with this latest release .. it certainly seems to be getting ever more bloated. Having a virus scanner is an essential item in today’s world but having one that means your pc is virtually unusable is not the answer.

Long time user of AVG products 8 years, and version 8.2-8.3 were the slowest dogs in the yard and discouraged a lot of people from their product but from 8.5 on I feel they have regained a fair bit of speed. If 9 is 50% faster again well worth a look .

I have been using AVG since version 6,
my PC always free from virus and AVG was able to remove any threat.
i found that the version 8.5 was better than previous version because there is 3 different scanning mode (slow,auto,fast) that let PC users to choose.
I tried avast but it didnt really impress me much, dont know about now.
I tried Norton Antivirus 2009 as well, it was good but slow the computer down and the scanning time was quite long.

I tried AVG 9, its very good, much faster and new looks

AVG 9 does seem to work better than previous versions of 8 did. The folks at AVG were aware of these issues and did work on improving AVG 9.

I’ve used the free versions and it seems to do a good job of keeping “mother’s little fool” out of trouble with viruses. However it did take one dll so now when I boot up and log on it tells me it can’t find C:/windows/system32/vukenowi.dll and I found it in the quaranteen area but it can’t seem to heal it so it can go back working like before. Any suggestions? I just downloaded 9.0 but it gave me a hard time doing so but I kept working at it until I found a way. I like the added security features. My other pc has avast! and I’ve never had a problem with it, not once but this laptop came with the AVG software installed so I kept using it..

Frankie,
Read this:

http://www.prevx.com/filenames/1802680173134210829-X1/VUKENOWI.DLL.html