AVG Free - Why superior than some other costly AV programs?

[VMO]

Would anyone tell me point-wise why AVG Free is superior to some other costly AV programs? I am attached to not-profit and hence would like to know the advantage.

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VMO

[amb141]

Well, aside from the price, I find AVG very easy to use and, with the appropriate tweak to the url.ini file, very easy to update.

Replace the text in your url.ini file ( In your grisoft folder or wherever you have AVG installed.)
Save your old file as url.old and create a new file in notepad with this:

[SERVER_NAME]
1=free.grisoft.cz
2=ftp.grisoft.com
3=www.grisoft.com

[SERVER_URL]
1=http://free.grisoft.cz/softw/60/fe
2=ftp.grisoft.com/pub/softw/60/fe/
3=http://www.grisoft.com/softw/60/fe/
Actual URL=3

When you restart AVG you'll have three choices to download from instead of the default one.

(Thanx and a tip o' the coonskin cap to br'er Crockett.)

In addition, it has never caused me the kind of conflicts that some have seen with McAfee and Norton AVs.

alan

[johng]

I used avg for sometime until I found Avast and I reckon this is better. Updates are done automatically and the whole program is very user friendly. I think it is the best of the free ones.
There is no need to keep advising people on this forum of updates as they are done whilst you are working, without your intervention. Program updates the same way.
john

[randiroo76073]

Most free AVs are fairly comparable, so it really comes down to personal choise. I use AVG as my main one w/ avast, antivir & bitdefender as backups on a rotating scan schedule. I update all my security prgms manualy[11], but thats just me:)

PS:I agree with Amb141, no conflicts w/ other prgms, good scan time, very lite on resources.

[billm65]

Would anyone tell me point-wise why AVG Free is superior to some other costly AV programs? I am attached to not-profit and hence would like to know the advantage.

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VMO

As a past user of both McAfee, and Norton, I can say with confidence,you can have both of them. I wouldn't have either one on my PC again. On my older one with windows 98se as an OS, McAfee was useless in preventing me from getting a BAD worm. In my newer PC with XP as the OS, Norton messed up my settings until I finally had to remove everything with Noton in it. I then found, on WorldStart forum someone explaining AVG. I gave it a try and have had no problems for the last two years. Also, there is NO pop ups asking you to get the paid for version or no emails to that effect. Grisoft is great in that they do not bother the user at all. I wouldn't have anything else. I just may check out "avast" now that I've seen it here, but it would be my secondary AV.
EDIT...I am editing this post, because I did, in fact D/L AVAST and it found a Blaster worm And two viruses that somehow AVG had not found, and I kept AVG updated religiously. Now with AVAST, the updates are automatic, I don't have to go D/L them and I have now made AVAST my virus scanner. I will let you know how it works out. I have uninstalled AVG, but I think I will D/L it and run it once a week or so, just to check my PC. Can never be too safe against these viruses!

[amb141]

John G

AVG can be set to update automatically as well. However, I prefer to update manually -- daily.

The larger point, though, is that any AV should be your last and least protection against viruses. Keep up to date at Windows Update (assuming that you use Windows), avoid e-mail attachments, disable (or set your browser to warn about) ActiveX and other potentially malicious script-launched programs, use an application that will warn about unauthorized changes to the registry, etc., and your AV will rarely (or never) be called on to intercept a virus.

alan

[VMO]

Thanks to everyone!
Alan's point is vital and pertinent.
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VMO