The Penguin
join:2001-07-31
45 South
| Re: AVG 8 Free Better Than 7.5 After Tweaking Well, I've happily used AVG for a long time. A couple of days ago I installed their latest version 8, as support disappears for 7.5 at the end of this month.
Result is, after much messing around, I am now switching to another AV program. 
For some reason I just cannot get this latest version of AVG to scan my incoming emails even after following their 'help' FAQ's and configuring the settings. Also, my browser (Firefox) has frozen a few times since installing this latest version. I don't know if this is just a coincidence but others on the AVG forum also report this problem.
I disabled LinkScanning as this seemed to slow things up too.
V8 also suddenly came up with warnings for several trojans etc (200+) which I eventually traced to being caused by AVG detecting reg entries that had been inserted by SpywareBlaster.
Overall, I think AVG seems to be going the way of some other previously good user friendly programs by trying to become too 'clever'.
I'm switching to Avast in the meantime and may try AVG again when a later version has hopefully ironed out its apparent problems. |
