New AVG Antivirus Suite 8

I'm trialling AVG 8 and the AVG toolbar. The thing literally "eats" memory but is not a bad "toy" if your computer is not an old one.

Originally posted by ludz
I'm trialling AVG 8 and the AVG toolbar. The thing literally "eats" memory but is not a bad "toy" if your computer is not an old one.

Originally posted by uzless
Is it worse than the new Norton...not the old memory Hog norton...the NEW Norton.

Babe in the woods, only ten months into laptop cyberspace. Does NOD 32 get the job done?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Babe in the woods, only ten months into laptop cyberspace. Does NOD 32 get the job done?

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Babe in the woods, only ten months into laptop cyberspace. Does NOD 32 get the job done?

Thanks, guys. Shall call my son in the morning to express my gratitude again.

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Nod 32 is regarded by many [who know about these things] to be the best available 'paid for' AntiVirus program.

Personally, I manage ok with AVG free and the other usual free stuff.

Originally posted by ludz
That's AVG 7 presumably. AVG 8 is probably meant for a 12 cylinder rally car not a computer. Looking at the AVGFree forums some users started a thread that was locked about popups from campaign.grisoft.com urging them to upgrade to AVG 8.

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
When I get the daily definition updates for AVG [free VER 7.5] there's one small recommendation-to-upgrade-box - no sweat, one click and it's gone. I assume that could be what they are talking about.




edit:
Isn't AVG 8 still being Beta tested?

Originally posted by ludz
AVG 8 is now fully launched but be warned it is resource intensive and installs some ugly toolbar thing that purports to scan sites but didn't in my view. The toolbar is just a way for Grisoft to make money from Yahoo searches replacing Google search.

Originally posted by Crowley
Why would anyone want to use Yahoo to search?

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
When I get the daily definition updates for AVG [free VER 7.5] there's one small recommendation-to-upgrade-box - no sweat, one click and it's gone. I assume that could be what they are talking about.




edit:
Isn't AVG 8 still being Beta tested?

Originally posted by ludz
Why would a previously reputable company like Grisoft (now called AVG Technologies) now start using popups and then install a "security" toolbar with Yahoo search. kaching - so that they can make some quick bucks.

I did not bother to read the terms and conditions/privacy terms etc but what goes on with the toolbar and data submitted through it? Is this different from Alexa?

Originally posted by Woodgie
How would you rate AVAST (as one of the freebies)?

AVG has dropped the ball a few times on a colleagues machine, so I tried AVAST with the infected beast and it got all of them.

What do you think Dr.?