-- Posted by Catlin at 1:18 am on June 22, 2009 AVG has the lowest score among lowest for Virus Scanning. PCMag OZ did a test and it failed to find 23 out of 50 objects. So before you make a reply, saying it picks up everything, it doesn't and thats a well sourced fact. Any Computer guy who knows anything will tell you the same, don't rely on your computer's security in a Free Program such as 'AVG'. If your too lazy to buy one, Use "Comodo." as its Company Trusted and even Department of Defence Trusted, it has a fool proof reputation. http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/ ~ Cat -- Posted by zamrambo at 1:19 am on June 22, 2009 Which is why I have Eset NOD32. -- Posted by DuBBy at 1:19 am on June 22, 2009 ok -- Posted by Schwarzy at 1:19 am on June 22, 2009 thats why i got a mac! there is about a 2000:1 ratio of pc virus to mac viruses. -- Posted by Cunning Stunt at 1:20 am on June 22, 2009 That's funny because I saw another test that said Norton and McAfee were the worst and AVG and Avast are the best. Don't believe everything you read. Try it for yourself. -- Posted by Aphrodite54 at 1:20 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from ZAMrambo at 11:19 am on June 22, 2009 Which is why I have Eset NOD32. Same! :) But the business edition. 54 -- Posted by DuBBy at 1:20 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Schwarzy at 3:19 am on June 22, 2009 thats why i got a mac! there is about a 2000:1 ratio of pc virus to mac viruses. win -- Posted by zamrambo at 1:22 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Kanenas54 at 3:20 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from ZAMrambo at 11:19 am on June 22, 2009 Which is why I have Eset NOD32. Same! :) But the business edition. 54 Me too. -- Posted by revived5656 at 1:22 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Schwarzy at 4:19 am on June 22, 2009 thats why i got a mac! there is about a 2000:1 ratio of pc virus to mac viruses. ^^^lies^^^ -- Posted by Catlin at 1:22 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Cunning Stunt at 6:20 pm on June 22, 2009 That's funny because I saw another test that said Norton and McAfee were the worst and AVG and Avast are the best. Don't believe everything you read. Try it for yourself. AVG Free would NEVER win to McAfree or Norton. You gotta be bloody high on Crack to think that. Its a well sourced fact. I can link you. AVG Paid isn't too bad, but its still not better then McAfree or Norton. McAfree wins over Norton. Avast and NOD is better. -- Posted by Forever Angel at 1:22 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Schwarzy at 3:19 am on June 22, 2009 thats why i got a mac! there is about a 2000:1 ratio of pc virus to mac viruses. That's the reason you got a Mac? -- Posted by yoshiness at 1:26 am on June 22, 2009 We all have our own opinions on which virus scanner is the best. I remember I used to like the Norton AntiVirus and Internet Security combo. But I eventually found avast! and another firewall program to take Norton's place. I noticed a huge speedup in my computer's performance. My dad hates Norton. He clings to McAfee too much because he just assumes if you pay for it, it's obviously gonna be better, right? Not always. I secretly uninstalled it without his permission, and installed avast! in its place, and he completely freaked cause all he really used it for was SiteAdvisor, which you can just get for free off their website. I personally found AVG a little hard to use. I didn't know how to turn off the daily scan. I would find the option in the preferences to turn it off, but it still continued to scan daily on startup. But that's just my personal taste. -- Posted by Cunning Stunt at 1:27 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Schwarzy at 4:19 am on June 22, 2009 thats why i got a mac! there is about a 2000:1 ratio of pc virus to mac viruses. That's because most computers are PC. Apple has a very small market share. People don't bother making viruses for Mac because it wouldn't produce much of a return. It's more of an insult than a claim to glory. -- Posted by yoshiness at 1:28 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Cunning Stunt at 3:27 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Schwarzy at 4:19 am on June 22, 2009 thats why i got a mac! there is about a 2000:1 ratio of pc virus to mac viruses. That's because most computers are PC. Apple has a very small market share. People don't bother making viruses for Mac because it wouldn't produce much of a return. It's more of an insult than a claim to glory. What's the Linux ratio? -- Posted by Aphrodite54 at 1:30 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Schwarzy at 11:19 am on June 22, 2009 thats why i got a mac! there is about a 2000:1 ratio of pc virus to mac viruses. Macs are PCs. 54 -- Posted by Catlin at 1:32 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from yoshiness at 6:26 pm on June 22, 2009 We all have our own opinions on which virus scanner is the best. I remember I used to like the Norton AntiVirus and Internet Security combo. But I eventually found avast! and another firewall program to take Norton's place. I noticed a huge speedup in my computer's performance. My dad hates Norton. He clings to McAfee too much because he just assumes if you pay for it, it's obviously gonna be better, right? Not always. I secretly uninstalled it without his permission, and installed avast! in its place, and he completely freaked cause all he really used it for was SiteAdvisor, which you can just get for free off their website. I personally found AVG a little hard to use. I didn't know how to turn off the daily scan. I would find the option in the preferences to turn it off, but it still continued to scan daily on startup. But that's just my personal taste. lol. Still, McAfree is better then AVG. No System Admins would recommend AVG unless they were either dumb or blind. Its easy to turn it off, they may update their patches everyday, but its has poor pick-up rate. I as a qualified SA would advise Avast over AVG, Hell anything other then AVG including AOL as it had better pick up rates. Norton likes to find viruses that dont exist like trying to delete System 32.   -- Posted by Schwarzy at 1:36 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Kanenas54 at 1:30 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Schwarzy at 11:19 am on June 22, 2009 thats why i got a mac! there is about a 2000:1 ratio of pc virus to mac viruses. Macs are PCs. 54 no, they arent...one is made by apple alone..one is build by one company, runs on software by another, has a keyboad by another, mouse by another, a sucky operating system...pc s scuk macs are amzing -- Posted by Aphrodite54 at 1:38 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Schwarzy at 11:36 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Kanenas54 at 1:30 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Schwarzy at 11:19 am on June 22, 2009 thats why i got a mac! there is about a 2000:1 ratio of pc virus to mac viruses. Macs are PCs. 54   no, they arent...one is made by apple alone..one is build by one company, runs on software by another, has a keyboad by another, mouse by another, a sucky operating system...pc s scuk   macs are amzing Mac is an Operating System just like Windows and Linux. It is a PC. 54 -- Posted by Catlin at 1:39 am on June 22, 2009 Incorrect all of you who say Macs arent PC. Personal Computer   - PC Single-user computer: a computer with its own operating system and a wide selection of software, intended to be used by one person  - Encarta ® World English Dictionary PC is NOT a company nor a brand, Its a name and Macs are PCs. -- Posted by Aphrodite54 at 1:41 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Catlin at 11:39 am on June 22, 2009 Incorrect all of you who say Macs arent PC. Personal Computer - PC Single-user computer: a computer with its own operating system and a wide selection of software, intended to be used by one person - Encarta ® World English Dictionary   PC is NOT a company nor a brand, Its a name and Macs are PCs. Exactly. :) 54 -- Posted by Cunning Stunt at 1:42 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from yoshiness at 4:28 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Cunning Stunt at 3:27 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Schwarzy at 4:19 am on June 22, 2009 thats why i got a mac! there is about a 2000:1 ratio of pc virus to mac viruses.    That's because most computers are PC. Apple has a very small market share. People don't bother making viruses for Mac because it wouldn't produce much of a return. It's more of an insult than a claim to glory. What's the Linux ratio? Who cares? -- Posted by Catlin at 1:42 am on June 22, 2009 In the end, Apple's flagship product is nothing more than a really good PC. I do have a IT Systems Administration Certifiacte IV Schwarzy -- Posted by Schwarzy at 1:43 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Kanenas54 at 1:38 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Schwarzy at 11:36 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Kanenas54 at 1:30 am on June 22, 2009 Quote: from Schwarzy at 11:19 am on June 22, 2009 thats why i got a mac! there is about a 2000:1 ratio of pc virus to mac viruses. Macs are PCs.    54 no, they arent...one is made by apple alone..one is build by one company, runs on software by another, has a keyboad by another, mouse by another, a sucky operating system...pc s scuk macs are amzing Mac is an Operating System just like Windows and Linux. It is a PC. 54 no, mac os x leopard is the os for the mac computer. -- Posted by Catlin at 1:49 am on June 22, 2009 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2327233,00.asp Sigh. There you go, Offical source that Macs are PCs. Enough already. Put simply, we all use computers that run different operating systems. If the Apple ad campaign were really correct, Long would say, "I'm a Mac," and Hodgman would say, "And I'm a Windows." Oh, wait, that sounds odd. How about this: Long says, "I'm a Mac PC," and Hodgman says, "And I'm a Windows PC"? Of course, the ads would then be far less effective, because consumers might realize that the differences Apple is trying to tout aren't quite as huge as Apple would like you to believe. Finally, after a few days of this, I couldn't stand it anymore, and I cut him off mid-jibe with: "Not for nothing, but PC Magazine has been covering the Mac since 1984. We regularly test Apple products, and many of them win our Editors' Choice award." I was talking fast, and while my brother-in-law seemed ready to offer some apology or joking rejoinder, I plowed ahead with what I thought was a zinger, "And by the way, the PC in  PC Magazine stands for "personal computer," and the Mac is a personal computer." My brother-in-law laughed, but he did look a bit startled by my intensity.   -- Posted by Awesome Tech at 3:42 am on June 23, 2009 i used to use avg then i started to use comodo internet security which has eveything http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/download_firewall.html -- Posted by The Dark Prince at 6:50 pm on June 23, 2009 Most of those tests are rigged and are not a fair comparison on what the programs will actually catch. You will find many that will say AVG is great and others that will say they aren't. The only reviews I actually listen to to some extent are those on Top Ten Reviews and after that I find some others before using the product. Also don't believe everything you hear the only sure way to know for sure is to use it. But from personal experience if you are going down the free lane I have found Avast to be much better that AVG in speed, reliability, and systems resources. -- Posted by Koopsey at 2:51 pm on June 24, 2009 tbh avg did nothing to stop my spyware problem. i used malwarebytes, it was free but maybe that has something to do with the spyware issues returning so much