Thread: AVG Anti -Virus software

yeah, I always thought AVG did the job nicely. All my windows security stuff was the free stuff and I didnt ever have any issues. AVG, ZoneAlarm, Spybot and ad-aware.

I had a look at my Virgin Media Size L account to what comes with it.
Seems I get Firewall, AV, A Spyware, A Theft and more so it should be enough.

Presumably if I add other AV it will only use up overheads and slow things.

I did run SpyBot and it did find a coupla hundred infections, so is this just because its more effective than the Virgin included protection?

Or does it just flag things that really are low level and not haiving an effect anyway?

Its probably picking up more stuff than the virgin software because its going to be better. Id imagine virgin just give you something to keep your mind at rest tbh!

Having two AV running in the background will slow things down for you but if you really do want two pieces of software covering AV then you could of course let one do the realtime work and keep the other one closed until you want to use it to scan your drives. To be honest though its actually quite rare to have issues with viruses, its spyware which is the real infestation.

i run AVG free 7.5

you can't go wrong

i suggest get a free firewall to go along with it, but thats optional

anti-spyware, come on man, be smart, you can download free ones

spybot search & destroy, Ad-Aware SE, Abexo Reg Cleaner, so on & so forth

AVG will warn you that u have a virus, and will give u an option to heal it, if it can't be healed it will move to the virus vault

however, some .exe that aren't viruses are read as viruses to AVG

Go with AVG free and Ghostwall firewall, they work real good together..

Decided, after all the good advice, to go with AVG free and Windows Defender. This coupled with the protection from my ISP and Windows itself I hope will be enough.

I try to keep things simple and more of these security products may clash and will just confuse me.

Went against a Reg Cleaner as there is a lot of bad press, as well as good, around for all of them. I always create a Sys Restore point and use this to get rid of tried progs. Hopefully this puts the Reg back as it was. I will try this sometime by manually looking before and after.

Anyway does it really slow a mch that much? For a normal home PC I tend to think not. There are a lot of entries but seemingly not much data. It cant take a fast setup long to scan and miss unused entries. My view is that I will do without it and do a clean install as and when (normally about 12 to 18 months).

You better get a firewall , AV and a good firewall should be a the top of anyone's list to install... I know its the first thing I install on all my pc's..

Well, it seems to me that I have two already: one is with Virgin Total Guard and the other in windows XP.

Why is that not enough? thanks

I did create a Sys Restore point and used this to get rid of a tried programme.

Took a snap shot of the Registry settings before and after doing the Restore and it does indeed delete all Registry entries. Nice for me to know.