antivirus

[amezri]

Uh.

Okay, after less than a day with Avast! I've uninstalled the thing. Setting every single option to Standard or Low, during off Internet Shield, E-Mail Shield, and P2P Shield, the program was still sucking up 80% of my CPU usage. WTF. I've done the research and it shouldn't be doing that, but it probably just doesn't like my system, so I've given up and I've just installed AVG. With Firefox open, utorrent, the LJ client, and it running a full scan, CPU usage is only 35%.

Yeah. Well. Whatever. I'll just not, you know, randomly click on links and files. Heh.

Okay, back to watching Life on Mars series 2... and knitting a scarf. What? There was like 5 inches of snow today! I can be knitting a scarf...

Comments

[larissa-j.livejournal.com]

I lasted a day with Avast. I never really liked AVG. Norton makes me twitchy and McAfee, well, McAfee makes me run screaming for the hills. Corporate CA isn't bad but that's because companies force them to rewrite shit. I've never used consumer CA.

Personally, I've yet to find any antivirus program that I actually like. It's more like one that I can live with. Yah, still working on that.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Yeah, seriously, the reviews for Avast all made it sound really good, but it killed my system. AVG is all right -- I've got it running on my mom's laptop and it's doing well there. God only knows what random spam attachments she's downloading every day. McAfee also causes me pain and I've fiddled with CA on people's machines and I'm not too impressed with it. I've been using Norton Internet Security since 2001 and I've finally had it with their subscription fees.

Heh. So what one are you living with now?

[larissa-j.livejournal.com]

God only knows what random spam attachments she's downloading every day.

Lovely. I try not to think about what the average user has on their system. It scares me.

So what one are you living with now?

LOL. It's a bit like the civil war surgeon: You can have your leg cut off or you can die!

I have the corporate version of CA but not by choice. I used NIS prior to CA. I stuck with NIS because I never, once, got bit by anything. ::shrugs::

I'm not sure that actually says anything about NIS but more about how I behave online :D.

I hear consumer CA is crap. I wouldn't know since I've never actually used it. From what I understand, you can't use Corporate CA without a server handing out definitions. So, I'm not sure if I was any help :D I just wanted to share your pain and rant with you.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

I try not to think about what the average user has on their system.

Indeed. This is why I bought my mom her very own Thinkpad so she could do with it what she wants and I can pretend it doesn't exist. We're all much happier XD

I stuck with NIS because I never, once, got bit by anything. ::shrugs::

Same reasoning I had, but I just can't really see a reason to pay yearly anymore. Like you said, it's probably more about personal online habits than the true effectiveness of the AV.

I hear Symantec Corporate is actually very nice.

I just wanted to share your pain and rant with you.

Always glad to share the pain and rant a bit :D

[crzydemona.livejournal.com]

I've tried Norton and McAfee... after those two, AVG is a DREAM. It doesn't even bother me when it's running a scan and I'm playing City of Heroes, chatting on Trillian and surfing the net all at the same time...

... (and I think I may be showing symptoms of ADD O.O)

[amezri.livejournal.com]

I actually did like NIS, up to about this past month or two. Everything in my system started to choke a bit -- my Yahoo inbox would load really slowly for whatever reason (it doesn't do that now). I'm liking the small footprint of AVG.

Yeah... it's okay. I have ADD attacks pretty often, which is why when Avast wouldn't let me open four or five things at a time, I killed it :-P

[darkmoon711.livejournal.com]

I have never had any problem with Avast. I love it sooo much. But my system crashed with Norton and McAfee.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wanted to try Avast because the reviews looked so good and the shields seemed awesome, but they were bogging down my machine and even killing all those didn't help so I had to give up on it :\