Does anyone pay for AVG?

[The Saint]

Henry Patterson

Y'know, he's been rather quiet of late ...

I wonder how young Henry is getting on?

[Viper]

so far no one who has bagged out AVG has given a reason why ... if ur going to make a statement at least provide some facts ffs!

I use free avg on every machine I build and so far very few issues so as far as i'm concerned it works well and isn't worth moving to another program.

[Dragunov-21]

My AVG (V8) broke itself trying to update a while back - the whole thing shat itself and would neither uninstall nor reinstall. Same thing happened to my friend. Apparently it was a reasonably widespread issue. (c-c-c-combobreaker)

Still better than norton =J though I hear the 2009 version is supposed to be actually ok?

Since then, I've been using 3month trials of ESET NOD32 (I'll remember to order a real subscription someday), and find it fantastic. My computer hasn't slowed or shown any signs of nasties, it has a tiny footprint, and it just seems to... work.

Plus a lot of people whose opinion I respect swear by it.

[merctom]

a-squared scanner compared with antivirus tools

very fast look - used to have a link to a very comprehensive list with a lot of different test but i cant find it

[Kingy]

Anyone else use Bitdefender?

I paid for a subscription and it is due in a few days and was unsure if something better was out there now I am going to Windows 7 as well.

[Kingy]

Oh I just found this roundup of 14 different products.

2009 Anti-Virus Roundup : One-Stop Comparison for 14 Anti-Virus Titles

[McGoo]

I love Malware Bytes Anti-Malware, it has a very good reputation around the traps, especially over at whingepool. I did use adaware for a while, but all it ever seemed to do was tell me when anything happened, I only wanted to know when bad things happened.