AVG or Norton?

ivo122 · 09-05-2007, 10:35 PM

lol okay.

Nevakonaza · 09-05-2007, 11:40 PM

Norton isnt realy that good,However i think that the new 360 is soppose to be alot better with the way it uses system resources lol

they made it less hungry i think now but i havnt tried it myself,My mate has.

I personaly prefer Avast over AVG but thats just my personal choice

no need to go out and buy antivirus software when you have free ones that are brilliant.

RT100 · 09-07-2007, 11:48 AM

AVG everytime over Norton. I have AVG Pro 7.5 at the moment and with the every day updates, i know i am guaranteed ultimate safety. I have tried running AVG and Norton along side one another to note the comparisons/differences and AVG discovers a great deal more errors/problems than Norton ever does.

surikas · 09-07-2007, 01:48 PM

Why Avast is better than AVG?

RoveWolf · 09-07-2007, 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nevakonaza

no need to go out and buy antivirus software when you have free ones that are brilliant.

More frequent updates, better support, better software abilities as well as more protection features which are more easily fine tuned (all of course dependent on the software provider and software itself of course). There are quite a few reasons. I use N0D32 (which is a pay for piece of software / service) and it's just perfect. Friend had issues with his PC and he ran virus scans with Avast! and found no viruses. Installed NOD32 and guess what it found? Viruses. Now I'm not saying NOD32 is simply better than Avast!, just that it has picked up many things other free AV software hadn't.

Avast! isn't really 'better' than AVG. They're about equal in terms of features, security, ease of use and updates etc. People just prefer one over the other and depending on which one they choose depends on which one they recommend.

Rove.

adarsh · 09-07-2007, 02:05 PM

avast even detects most macro viruses tht avg sumtimes misses. plus u can set the scanning intensity in avast.

RoveWolf · 09-07-2007, 02:07 PM

All programs in the security sector will detect / prevent things others won't. Another prime example is in the spyware area. Ad-Aware picks up many things Spybot doesn't and vice versa. Although in saying that I haven't used either free Anti Virus in a while but back when I did, neither held anything special over the other. They both done their job to a sufficient level.

Rove.

maroon1 · 09-07-2007, 07:59 PM

I prefer AVG over Norton

But I prefer Avast over both

patrickv · 09-07-2007, 08:06 PM

NOD32 ftw <-- hehe first time i use another "abreviation"

Zangetsu · 09-07-2007, 08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ivo122

I have avg on my pc. my brother just got norton for his laptop, its for 3 pc's so i could install it. is it better than avg?

Remove/don't install both. I'll recommond Avast!, or Avira

Zangetsu

09-05-2007, 11:40 PM	#12 (permalink)
Nevakonaza Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Inside my 500Se Benz Age: 19 Posts: 7,755	Norton isnt realy that good,However i think that the new 360 is soppose to be alot better with the way it uses system resources lol they made it less hungry i think now but i havnt tried it myself,My mate has. I personaly prefer Avast over AVG but thats just my personal choice no need to go out and buy antivirus software when you have free ones that are brilliant. __________________ Core 2 Duo E6300 @ 2.8Ghz - Asus Silent Knight II MSI P35 Neo-F (45nm Ready) 3Gb GeIL DDR2 @ 800 Mhz (Dual channel) Asus Extreme 8800GT G92 512Mb with Glaciator cooler Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity 7.1 WDC 400GB Sata II + 120Gb Slave = 520Gb total Sony 20X DVD±RW DL & DVD-RAM SATA Windows Xp Pro SP3\|Kaspersky IS 2009 Belinea o.display 22'' Widescreen (1680x1050)

09-07-2007, 01:48 PM	#14 (permalink)
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09-07-2007, 02:07 PM	#17 (permalink)
RoveWolf VIP Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: West Midlands, UK Age: 22 Posts: 1,257	All programs in the security sector will detect / prevent things others won't. Another prime example is in the spyware area. Ad-Aware picks up many things Spybot doesn't and vice versa. Although in saying that I haven't used either free Anti Virus in a while but back when I did, neither held anything special over the other. They both done their job to a sufficient level. Rove. __________________ Note: Formerly known as Breaks. Thermaltake VC3000BWS Armour Jr SuperMidi Tower - Black Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) HIS ATI Radeon X1950 Pro ICEQ 3 V2 TURBO SILENT Heatpipe 256MB GDDR3 (PCI-E) Western Digital Caviar RE 160GB SATA-II 16MB Cache Enermax Noisetaker 535W EG565AX-VE(W) SFMA ATX2.0 SLI Compliant PSU Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB) Samsung 18x18 DVD+RW (Black)

09-07-2007, 07:59 PM	#18 (permalink)
maroon1 Diamond Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Somewhere in Hell !!! Posts: 2,577	I prefer AVG over Norton But I prefer Avast over both __________________ Free softwares: Avast! antivirus - FireFox - FDM - OpenOffice - CCleaner

09-05-2007, 10:35 PM	#11 (permalink)
ivo122 Gold Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: NW London Posts: 293	lol okay.

09-07-2007, 11:48 AM	#13 (permalink)
RT100 New Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 4	AVG everytime over Norton. I have AVG Pro 7.5 at the moment and with the every day updates, i know i am guaranteed ultimate safety. I have tried running AVG and Norton along side one another to note the comparisons/differences and AVG discovers a great deal more errors/problems than Norton ever does.

09-07-2007, 08:06 PM	#19 (permalink)
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