NEW AVG ANTI-VIRUS FREE EDITION NOW AVAILABLE!

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Prairie Lady

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http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/1/

After 5 years and millions of free downloads, GRISOFT is pleased to announce the upgrade of the popular AVG Free Edition. Individual home computer users with the NEW version of AVG Free Edition will now benefit from some of the significant improvements drawn from the AVG Professional Editions.

Please also be advised, that as of December 31st, 2004, database updates and support for older versions of AVG Free Edition will no longer be available. If you are currently using an older version of AVG Free Edition, we encourage you to download the new version of AVG Free Edition by the end of 2004. GRISOFT will notify AVG Free Edition users about the availability of the new AVG Free Edition via the regular update process.
 
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troglodyte

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Is it really "50%"? I'm just taking a guess here -- it may be 50% of the viruses, but perhaps the 50% that it doesn't catch are rarely found spreading? Suppose (I'm making this up) 99% of all infections are caused by just 50% of the viruses, and AVG focused in on that 50%? If so, I'm OK with that. A typical cost-cutting engineering decision would use reasoning such as this, and I hope that's all that is going on here. But, I am just hypothesizing, and if anyone knows any details about the viruses it misses, I'd like to know about it.
 
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Myranya

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I have AVG, and it's never let me down yet... As the article states, "If it doesn't find everything it's supposed to, then how do its users know if it's doing a good job?", well I do sometimes check with online scanners (HouseCall) when I hear these bad reports on it, however even though I am all over the 'net (traffic exchange programs and Paid-to-Read pages that often have loads of popups, banners, and other junk), HouseCall doesn't find anything AVG missed. Okay, I also run stuff like a firewall, popup blocker and RegProt so maybe they're the ones that catch the junk instead of AVG...? Oh well, as long as it's caught I'm happy :)
 
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Prairie Lady

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I like to use a little freebie program called Antidote Lite. No background scanning, no healing of infected files. Just a scanner. But place's I've gone on line insist it's the BEST freebie out there with a 99% detection rating. You CAN scan your email with it before opening the email too. It's a pretty tiny program (about 5mb download) and the program won't run if it's not up to date. It doesn't update daily like paid for programs do, but I've had it ferret out stuff nobody else's did.

I think the best rating I've seen for AVG 6 was 65%. MY personal choice is not to waste the space or resources on it. I put the notice up there for folks who DO like it and who do use it. I don't. I'd much rather have the little freebie that catches the 99% . I tend to download specialty virus removers as they come out like the free tools you can get at symentec or some of the other namebrand places. Some of them are for cleaning up one particular virus/trojan and some of them have several removers in the package.

I"m also trying out a pest ware called A2 (A-squared). It's a trojan detector. I don't know if I like it yet or not. It finds other malware it says, but I keep such a clean system that so far it hasn't found anything lol! It's free to use for a couple of years. The free version doesn't have updates as often as I like, and I think they happen to quickly to be actual updates. I dunno. Some folks swear by it, but I"m still evaluating and haven't formed a hard opinion on it yet.

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