I use AVG, Spybot, and Zone Alarm -- all the free versions. Each is
trying to be my Everything, so they are increasingly overlapping their
capabilities, but these still seem to work well together. I really
like Zone Alarm. I don't know if it is especially effective, I just
like to watch the traffic. I also use an old freeware program called
"Startup Inspector." There are many variations of this program, which
allows you to keep various things you didn't authorize to load up in
memory from doing so, but Startup Inspector is just one I'm familiar
with.
Anyway AVG is still pretty much OK in my book, but I'll keep Avast in
mind. I recall you've mentioned it before.
Joel W.
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Chuck Norcutt
<chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I had also switched to AVG on advice from here but it began to grow
> tiresome for its use of resources. So, also on advice received here I
> switched to Avast and am much happier. Avast is a different sort of
> animal. It doesn't do a full scan of the drive unless asked to do so
> and can also do a rootkit check if requested. Normally it just checks
> whatever you're actively using as it comes in off the net or gets loaded
> off the disk. After an initial full scan it makes much more sense to do
> it that way. It's operation is really not very noticeable except for
> the first couple of minutes after boot when it gets very busy doing I
> know not exactly what. Recommended when you finally get ready to toss AVG.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> Joel Wilcox wrote:
>> I don't disagree, though we have a corporate version at work which is
>> configured centrally and pushed out via SMS. Phones home via
>> LiveUpdate and is unproblematic and transparent. I don't know what
>> our IT people do to manage it so well. I used to use it on my home
>> computer as well with no issues but have since switched to AVG (whose
>> footprint however grows ever larger -- hmmmm.)
>>
>> Joel W.
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Chuck Norcutt
>> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I feel the same. I ripped out Norton Anti Virus years ago. And ripping
>>> out is a good description. It was totally unable to uninstall itself
>>> completely which was another major problem. Too bad. It used to be the
>>> cat's meow.
>>>
>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>
>>> Bob Whitmire wrote:
>>>> I'd rather give up photography, stop using a computer, and
>>>> become a hermit monk than let another Symantec product on a computer
>>>> of mine.
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