which is better?

Which is the better anti-virus program, Avast or AVG free? I currently have
both running and my computing life is starting to suck. My system has slowed
by half, and one of these must go.

 

Thank you very much

 

Picking one is a personal choice as to which you feel most comfortable with. I have used AVG for years and find it the better of the two programs.

 

Not even that. If you run a scan with Avast, it will cannabilize AVG. Same with AVG vs. Avast.

One installed only.

 

UH OH . . Now you've done it. :eek

 

I have used both, seperately, and each has it's plusses and minuses; AVG has a smaller resource footprint, but doesn't have stellar detection rates (it's good; Avast is better in this area)... Avast has better detection, but the GUI can be tricky to navigate at first, and I've had Avast run away with my system resources on occasion. I still like 'em both, and use 'em both. But as a rule of thumb: 1 active antivirus program, 1 active antispyware program, 1 active firewall; otherwise conflicts and resources become issues.

hopperdave2000

 

Call it how you like.

My experience says your advice is wrong.

*shrug*

 

its not practical to use 2 main antivirus, waste of space and resources, even if one is inactive ... u can use supplemental independent AVs that dont run in the background like "removeit" or mcafee "stinger" in my case i have a dual OS on one hard drive, one avast for one partition and AVG on the other....but i find AVS(active virus shield) from kapersky on my other pc as most effective. you see i have a usb flash drive that i use on other pcs, in which case always gets infected with virus and i scan it with avg, avast and avs from which almost 100% AVS detects and heals the virus, AVG also detects but cant heal some of the viruses while avast detects but misses some.