Comments on: New AVG 9 + More Protections = Still Free

By: Ron Schenone

Ron Schenone — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:27:20 +0000

Frankie,
Read this:

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

By: Frankie Perdue

Frankie Perdue — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:30:38 +0000

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..

By: Ron Schenone

Ron Schenone — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:50:01 +0000

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.

By: magnum

magnum — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:10:45 +0000

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

By: mattpth

mattpth — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:19:35 +0000

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 .

By: lxndr

lxndr — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:28:48 +0000

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.

By: Roelof

Roelof — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:39:37 +0000

@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.

By: nic

nic — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:27:10 +0000

mid october? i need it now…

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:46:56 +0000

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…

By: Richard Smith

Richard Smith — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:54:45 +0000

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.