Anyone still using good ole' AVG freebie av???

The Linkscanner is beyond annoying at least to people that own web based sites.. I have blocked Linkscanner from ever touching my site. POS does nothing but run my bandwidth bills into the ground.

 

You are wrong man - this behaviour was changed a few years ago

Edit: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/avg-changes-its-stance-on-linkscanner/1450

 

Going to test one of them, but wonders which one..9.0 or the beta 2011?

 

i have never been a fan of avg

but latest av test are changing my mind to try it

 

That would be awesome!

 

Nice to see avg improving..

 

I still use the free version on my old,hardly used, pc.It does the job it's required to do.
Even though the current reviews are good I won't use it for my main pc as I'm very happy with the setup I currently have.

 

Im running AVG Antivirus v9 and PrevX SOL right now side by side and no slow downs or errors/lag going on. Everything is running very light. Almost to light.

 

just installed avg 9 pro av and its very light .. i m impressed .. will check it out for detections with some 0 day malwares now

 

And what is your current set-up? Maybe your happiness could be infectious .

Thanks.

 

I added the ID Protect from the $2.75 deal. It integrates into AVG free fine although I may upgrade to the paid AVG freebie I just got from a promo. Also running Prevx. So it appears everything is running together and fairly light. From its actions, it seems ID Protect is comparable to Prevx although not nearly as comprehensive or strong. I've not seen IDP stop anything but it has monitored some windows processes/services running in the background.

 

Nevis, how did it do with zero day detection?

 

AVG was an antivirus I used in the early part of the decade because, well...there was nothing else. Antivir required you download 5+ MB file every time you updated signatures and that would not work on my dial up connection and Avast was largely unknown then.

I'm not sure if AVG's early reputation was based on the fact it was good or it was just available. One could argue most paid security suites at the time were pretty lousy and bloated which allowed AVG to shine in a market struggling to mature. It's hard to compare detection results so long ago but I do recall that it wasn't exactly difficult to get riddled with a bunch of spyware because AVG's spyware protection was zero until the purchase of Ewido. Luckily Spybot was there to save the day *applause*.

But yeah I haven't used AVG since those days. There hasn't been enough compelling features or positive changes to make me look twice. The market place is incredibly competitive for FREE products (can you believe it?) and AVG isn't the one to rule them all anymore. Oh have times changed in a blink of an eye.

 

it detected around 50-70%
some from mdl,some just formed trojan and some of my personal ones

 

I doubt it.On my tests,AVG detected 98%,MDL.

 

That is impressive. Roughly how many samples/links?

 

@JoeBlack40
@Nevis

Are you two testing with the free version of AVG? And which component seems to be catching the malware? I couldn't figure out if AVG free had an http scanner or not- or if the file guard was catching everything. If you are using the Internet Security is the ID Protect catching much?

thanks

 

Here is the new ad in the latest AVG Free 9.0.856