Albert the InfoGipsy Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 I've been on Avast for about a year now. I changed from AVG when v8 came out because it completely broke MS Access on Vista. I hardly ever do a full scan with Avast because I rely on the online scanning agents. So far I have seen absolutely no evidence of viral infection on either of my internet-connected Windows boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 [quote user="Albert the InfoGipsy"]I hardly ever do a full scan with Avast because I rely on the online scanning agents. So far I have seen absolutely no evidence of viral infection on either of my internet-connected Windows boxes.[/quote]Which could of course mean something very good - or something very bad - which is the perennial problem with every AV, they all require a certain degree of faith [geek] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 Too true ErnieY it's risk management same as websites and companies inc corporates written by very very clever programmers they can all be hacked eventually.Albert I doubt AVG broke MS Access, more likely Vista broke again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert the InfoGipsy Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 Teapot.I've been using Access in various incarnations since v2 (The last Win 3.1 version). I'm currently running Access 2003 on a Vista box to process a seriously large data migration. When I put AVG 8.0 on my previousVista box that was happily running Access it completely broke it -- I could not fire up Access directly or by opening a .mdb file. Removing AVG 8.0 fixed the problem. For me an anti-virus that cannot work with mainstream applications and operating systems is not worth having on my machines. For all I know AVG have now fixed the problem, but I can't be bothered to do the testing to ensure that some stress factor won't break things at full bore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 A man's go to do what a man's got to do [:)]On a side note, just ran clara wordread on my website without issue apart from some funny pronunciations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Thought this might be a useful link for those considering changing their Internet Security suite. http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22068070-Norton-2009-user-reviews Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 Norton doesn't even make it into the top 10 according to this comprehensive review Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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