avg 8

Cuddles_In_the_Buff

Hopefully AV Comparatives will set your mind at ease

espresso

andyrules wrote: »

Tried uninstall etc, still wouldn't load so have gone with Antivir - seems OK! Hopefully it will catch as much as avg. Had same probs with lappy too.
Thanks to all

Exactly what happened when you tried to install AVG 8?

Reluctant_spender

Did you reboot your machine when your uninstalled one and before installing another?

aliEnRIK

andyrules wrote: »

Tried uninstall etc, still wouldn't load so have gone with Antivir - seems OK! Hopefully it will catch as much as avg. Had same probs with lappy too.
Thanks to all

Avira has a better database than AVG (In fact all of the 'anti virus' programmes that I know of!)

aliEnRIK

Cuddles_In_the_Buff wrote: »

Hopefully http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2008_08.php will set your mind at ease

Thats the second time someone has posted that, yet when I click it says 'not found'

espresso

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Avira has a better database than AVG (In fact all of the 'anti virus' programmes that I know of!)

But it gives too many false positives in my experience!

aliEnRIK

espresso wrote: »

But it gives too many false positives in my experience!

Yeah, ive only just started using it myself. I scanned my new computer with no problems . There are some....erm......dodgy programmes , which escaped no problem.

What kinda false positives?

espresso

aliEnRIK wrote: »

What kinda false positives?

Can't give specifics at the moment as it's been removed from my test machine but it wanted to remove lots of DOS batch files that I had written, that I know are clean.

Cuddles_In_the_Buff

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Thats the second time someone has posted that, yet when I click it says 'not found'

Sorry about that, go to the main site and click on Comparatives <- if that link doesn't work either

cmonthehoops

Use Avira the 8 version is to bloated Avira i feel is a lot better. Plus don't forget to use a spyware program also. I use superantispyware and the both keep my PC clean no probs.