September 25, 2007

Switching from AVG antivirus to AntiVir antivirus

So I switched over to AntiVir from AVG.

Please note that I’m talking about the personal editions I use at home. Good stuff. Good to know that anti-virus software doesn’t need to cost a lot of money. Or I guess I could switch to Mac, since Mac apparently has no virus appeal. But the time are changing, Mac is becoming a virus target.

I think it’ll be a good move. I’ve read lots of mixed reviews about all the various top-recommended anti-virus software out there. It’s hard to pick a good one. I’ve never felt like paying money for McAffee or Norton, since there’s some good freebies for personal use.

A recent trip to a local computer tech revealed some scoffing towards AVG free. I was a bit surprised. I figure I have nothing to lose trying something else out. I guess I’ve never really had any bad luck with any type of anti-virus, free or paid. I decided to give AntiVir a run. Looks like it’s made by Germans.

The only differences I can see so far:

• AntiVir has a nice little umbrella icon instead of a multi-colored four shape icon.
• AntiVir is downloading updates from the AntiVir site at about 40k per second, AVG downloaded at about 170k per second or better depending on how my lousy cable connection is faring for the day.

Hopefully I’m not searching out new virus protection soon. I’d like to stick with AntiVir just cause I don’t feel like installing another anti-virus application on this machine.

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