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[fossyant]

Zone Alarm comes as a security suite now. I got a great deal on it - about $30 for 2 years when the exchange rate was good - that's coming to an end shortly, but, a recent zone alarm release was seriously bugged, so I ended up using a beta release for a month till they fixed it. They offered a free year's zone alarm, if you tested the 'fixed' beta, and sent them a feedback email. I did this, and got a new year's licence for free....

ZA Internet Security Suite is quite a bulky program though, but it's pretty good.

I use AVG on the other PC's

 

[swee'pea99]

Have to say I've had no probs with AVG, as compared with McAfee, which was always snarling things up - and as for it missing things, that happens with all these sorts of programmes. I use both Lavasoft and Spybot for adware/spyware - both are good, but each misses things the other finds.

 

[Night Train]

Is it possible/worth it to run Avast alongside AVG? AVG seems to be settled and working as far as I know.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Is it possible/worth it to run Avast alongside AVG? AVG seems to be settled and working as far as I know.

Two virus scanners running side by side will slow your pc to a crawl and screw everything up.

 

[marinyork]

By all means keep AVG ticking along. Install avast and do the occasional scan whilst disabling AVG temporarily to see if it picks up anything else? Just a suggestion. If you have both on at the same time it will go bonkers.

 

[Night Train]

Yeah, I didn't mean running both at the same time, just thinking of trying Avast first before I consider dumping AVG.
I'll have a go.

 

[Carwash]

Two virus scanners running side by side will slow your pc to a crawl and screw everything up.

Precisely – one is the optimal number of virus scanners on a Windows PC. Any more and it will become slow and unreliable; any fewer and it will become slow and unreliable.

(Exactly one and... well, it'll still be a Windows box.

 

[beanzontoast]

By all means keep AVG ticking along. Install avast and do the occasional scan whilst disabling AVG temporarily to see if it picks up anything else? Just a suggestion. If you have both on at the same time it will go bonkers.

Matches my experience of AVG. Was my first choice for years until the latest version, which I found slow and cumbersome. Switched to Avast and find it better at detecting problems as well as good at maintaining a low, unobtrusive profile in the background.

 

[Joe24]

If im right, she has that virus you get over MSN. The one where you get an auto message from someone saying something like, "Hey! Heres a picture of you(link with your msn address on)"
You click it and you get a virus on your computer somehow, and then your msn starts sending out that message to people.
And IIRC, virus scanners dont pick it up, and removing msn and putting it back on doesnt work, theressome way you have to do it.
If this isnt the one Kovu means then she has this one aswell

 

[LLB]

As the others said, Avast is a better piece of kit. We have had it in work for 2 years now and will be updating the licenses soon.

AVG misses a lot of stuff