AVG Anti Virus

[richard1971]

My subscription for norton as run out, so a friend off mine as told me to download avg anti virus. What i want to know is,

is it any good and will i have to take norton off, if i do i have been told its quite hard to take off. And its not just a case of just going into add and remove or can you let them both run

I would appreciate if anone who as done this in the past could let me know of there experience. Thanks

[pauln90]

I had the Norton suite for a number of years and while I found it effective it took up a lot of system resources and slowed my computer.

I have used the AVG free antivirus for three years now and have had no problems with it.It updates daily and has found viri which it has deleted successfully.

I also use the Zone Alarm free firewall and have no problems with this either.

Having two antivirus programmes running could cause conflicts so it would be wise to completely remove Norton.This can be a tricky business but I believe Symantec the makers of Norton have uninstall instructions on their website

good luck

[kwicky]

I have been using the free AVG for quite a while now but last week I had an e-mail from them saying my licence for it will soon expire. But if I want I can purchase their updated version if I want.

[Ethel]

kwicky - AVG will still be free - the version is 7.5 and will remain free.

It is excellent.

[Buenchico]

Irrespective of your choice of programs you should NEVER have 2 anti-virus programs running simultaneously. It's a recipe for disaster!

If you run two anti-virus programs simultaneously you might be lucky and suffer nothing worse than a slow PC. However, there's a very high risk that something extremely nasty could happen to your registry - which could be far more damaging than the effects of many of the viruses which you're trying to keep out!

To completely remove Norton, you simply need to download and run the 'Norton Removal Tool' from Symantec (who are the manufacturers of Norton):
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo .nsf/docid/2005033108162039

AVG Free Edition is an excellent, free anti-virus product. As Kwicky has indicated, they've confused a lot of people recently by sending users a message that Version 7.1 is about to expire. The message comes with a large 'click here' button which takes you to information about the paid-for version. However, users who look closely at the message see that there's a much smaller link to to the download site for the new (7.5) free version. i.e. you can still get AVG completely free. It's here:
http://free.grisoft.com/

If you were using Norton's firewall (instead of, or as well as, XP's own firewall), you might need a free replacement. As PaulN90 suggests, Zone Alarm Free works perfectly alongside AVG:
http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/ products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp?dc=12bms&ctry= US&lang=en

Chris

[bloaterbum]

I have AVG and it's the balls and it's free as thre others said .I did have Norton but itwas so slow and it ******** efery thing up .So rock on AVG