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Re: AVG 9
Posted: 12 Nov 2009, 19:41
by Garry Russell
Hi Dave
Yep....I realise it won't stop but of course it becomes less effective every missed update
Ah well.just have to see
Garry
Re: AVG 9
Posted: 12 Nov 2009, 20:49
by DaveB
Just be careful where you go mate and you shouldn't have a problem. Out of date AV is better than no AV
ATB
DaveB
Re: AVG 9
Posted: 12 Nov 2009, 20:50
by Garry Russell
Indeed I'll still use it
Garry
Re: AVG 9
Posted: 13 Nov 2009, 10:05
by speedbird591
There's a short article about it in PC Advisor along with the group test of free AVs that I mentioned earlier. They decided not to compare it because it's approach is so different and the fact that it's a work-in-progress. They did say that it looks promising and it's detection rate at stopping known malware was better than any of the others.
Rather than using your PC's processing power it uses on-line, real-time scanning using Panda's servers. In the AV-Test's benchmark that was used for all the AVs it scored an amazing 99.4% detection rate (comparison: Avira 98.9%, Avast 98.2%, MSSE 97.8%, AVG 95.8%, Comodo 74.6%, PC Tools 51.6%).
Do you know what. I'm feeling lucky - I'm very happy with MSSE but I think I might give this a try. After all, what could possibly go wrong?
Ian
