McAfee vs. AVG

SlyFly · 11-05-2007, 03:30 AM

I was just curious as to what all of you perfer, McAfee or AVG? On my desktop I am currentley using McAfee, the only down side is I noticed it slows me down a little bit while using the Internet. On my laptop which I use for my music, I use AVG Pro and it doesn't slow me down but the scanning takes forever.

What do you perfer and why?
Poll ends in 30 days.

PC eye · 11-05-2007, 03:46 AM

It seems we have a weekly poll on the same subject. One of these there may be a sticky on antivirus programs like the ways of prevention covered in Basic Malware Prevention

McAFee had it's one time chance some years back and never again was the initial verdict for a good numbers of reasons. The free version of AVG provided for home use by Grisoft on the other hand has even worked better at actually catching and pointing a variety of "bugs"(trojans, trojan downloaders, malwares) then the other antispyware programs shown in the sticky with the exception of Ad-Aware which now sees a 2007 free version bu Lavasoft. Ad-Aware likes to catch browser hijackers.

g0slacR · 11-06-2007, 07:04 PM

once again, I agree with pceye IMHO mcafee is worse than most viruses

PC eye · 11-07-2007, 12:09 AM

McAFee must be desparate for sales when you see adding their software included with the ISP's for AOL, Yahoo, or whatever. I later ran Symantec's full System Works package on another old build and got that stuff fast when it bogged everything down there. That was on an old 98 build with three 256mb simms maxing memory.

MixedLogik · 11-07-2007, 12:13 AM

I use Lavasoft Adware Personel SE and Spybot Search and Destroy, both freeware and Love them. I highly reccomend them because they are easy to use, and get just about everything...

PC eye · 11-07-2007, 02:20 AM

SpyBot S&D never did cut any slack here. But I could easily recommend that over several others. Ad-Aware 2007 now features a live Ad Watch feature they added in. For antivirus and catching some nasties(malwares) AVG still takes the lead for a free home use product. For retail look at Grisoft or Trend Micro's lineup.

tobywuk · 11-08-2007, 08:41 PM

I used to have mcafee back in the day and i quite liked it. I now just use AVG because its free and it does the job.

Kornowski · 11-08-2007, 09:54 PM

I use AVG.

codeman0013 · 11-08-2007, 10:15 PM

AVG free and does not use nearly as many of my system resources aka memory and processor...

Jabes · 11-08-2007, 10:17 PM

Norton its a ram hog but I love it

View Poll Results: What Do You Perfer?
McAfee	0	0%
AVG	22	75.86%
Other	7	24.14%
Voters: 29. You may not vote on this poll

11-05-2007, 03:30 AM	#1 (permalink)
SlyFly Bronze Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maple Leaf Country Age: 17 Posts: 29	McAfee vs. AVG I was just curious as to what all of you perfer, McAfee or AVG? On my desktop I am currentley using McAfee, the only down side is I noticed it slows me down a little bit while using the Internet. On my laptop which I use for my music, I use AVG Pro and it doesn't slow me down but the scanning takes forever. What do you perfer and why? Poll ends in 30 days.

11-06-2007, 07:04 PM	#3 (permalink)
g0slacR Bronze Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 95	once again, I agree with pceye IMHO mcafee is worse than most viruses __________________ Q6600 (G0) @ 3.0ghz AC freezer 7 asus p5k mobo 2 gigs ocz ddr800 ram @ 1000 150 gig raptor and 120 gig samsung slave evga 8600gt pc power and cooling 610 silencer creative xtremgamer with bose series 1 speakers 22" kds widescreen lcd logitech g5 laser mouse

11-07-2007, 12:13 AM	#5 (permalink)
MixedLogik Platinum Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 539	I use Lavasoft Adware Personel SE and Spybot Search and Destroy, both freeware and Love them. I highly reccomend them because they are easy to use, and get just about everything... __________________ Formerly ComputerGuru64x2 CPU: AMD Phenom X3 AM2+ 8650 @ 2.5Ghz MB: Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-US2H mATX GPU: ATI Radeon HD3200 512Mb @ 950Mhz RAM: Mushkin XP Series (2X2Gb) DDR2 @ 1066Mhz HDD: Western Digital 80Gb SATA SC: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio OD: LG DVD-RAM Sata CASE: nMediaPC Black mATX HTPC 200 Enjoy Synthesizers? Effects? DIY? ->http://sites.google.com/site/tech4music/

11-08-2007, 08:41 PM	#7 (permalink)
tobywuk Gold Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 377	I used to have mcafee back in the day and i quite liked it. I now just use AVG because its free and it does the job. __________________ My Personal Website & Blog

11-05-2007, 03:46 AM	#2 (permalink)
PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 21,091	It seems we have a weekly poll on the same subject. One of these there may be a sticky on antivirus programs like the ways of prevention covered in Basic Malware Prevention McAFee had it's one time chance some years back and never again was the initial verdict for a good numbers of reasons. The free version of AVG provided for home use by Grisoft on the other hand has even worked better at actually catching and pointing a variety of "bugs"(trojans, trojan downloaders, malwares) then the other antispyware programs shown in the sticky with the exception of Ad-Aware which now sees a 2007 free version bu Lavasoft. Ad-Aware likes to catch browser hijackers.

11-07-2007, 12:09 AM	#4 (permalink)
PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 21,091	McAFee must be desparate for sales when you see adding their software included with the ISP's for AOL, Yahoo, or whatever. I later ran Symantec's full System Works package on another old build and got that stuff fast when it bogged everything down there. That was on an old 98 build with three 256mb simms maxing memory.

11-07-2007, 02:20 AM	#6 (permalink)
PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 21,091	SpyBot S&D never did cut any slack here. But I could easily recommend that over several others. Ad-Aware 2007 now features a live Ad Watch feature they added in. For antivirus and catching some nasties(malwares) AVG still takes the lead for a free home use product. For retail look at Grisoft or Trend Micro's lineup.

11-08-2007, 09:54 PM	#8 (permalink)
Kornowski VIP - Graphics Guru Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Liverpool, UK Age: 19 Posts: 16,145	I use AVG. __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3.4Ghz EVGA 750i SLI FTW 4GB Crucial Ballistix 2 X 8800GTS G92 in SLI @ 734/1890/972 Corsair HX520W Windows 7 Profesional 64bit Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11 & WD 120GB Tuniq Tower LED Antec 900 (Modded) Acer 24" and Samsung 19" Monitors DH Biking - Because Golf and Football only require one ball. www.kornowski.tk

11-08-2007, 10:15 PM	#9 (permalink)
codeman0013 Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Inside my network at work Age: 24 Posts: 1,620	AVG free and does not use nearly as many of my system resources aka memory and processor...

11-08-2007, 10:17 PM	#10 (permalink)
Jabes banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Vista the best place to live :D Age: 16 Posts: 1,773	Norton its a ram hog but I love it

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