Windows bashing was: Re: Voxin was: Re: Switching to Linux

[Gregory Nowak]

I forgot to add that I've been running AVG-free since the 6.x days
starting under win98,
and it has always been possible to schedule when full scanning runs, and
to prevent it from running on a schedule completely as far as I recall.


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 05:35:13PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 01:13:16AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
> > AVG is now pretty much dead and it
> > was the antivirus which totally made my machine come to a complete stop at
> > 8 AM daily.  OK, it turned out that it's a scheduling "feature" which is
> > part of AVG, but I couldn't turn it off.  I could change when it ran, but
> > no matter what, it was going to do a full virus scan every day whether I
> > liked it or not.  So much for me controlling the machine, but that's
> > typical Windows behavior.
> 
> What do you mean when you say that AVG is pretty much dead? I use
> AVG-free on one of my machines here, and it still seems to be very
> much alive. It has definition updates daily as far as I can tell. It
> also seems to come out with a minor version upgrade about every half a
> year, and with a major version upgrade about once a year.
> 
> As far as your box locking up, you must have been running on a very old
> machine. I'm running AVG-free 2013 on a 2.2GHz pentium IV single core with no
> hyperthreading, and one gig of RAM. The machine doesn't fly while
> doing virus scanning, but it's still quite useable, and fairly
> responsive. As far as scheduling full virus scans, it is possible to
> schedule both how often AVG-free runs them, and at what time of day. I
> have mine scheduled to run once a week for instance. Guess what? You
> can even turn off full virus scanning completely if you don't want it
> to run at all on any schedule.
> 
> I'm not trying to defend AVG-free. Like many things, it isn't
> perfect. I do know from personal experience though that your
> statements above aren't correct regarding the latest version of
> AVG-free. As far as controlling your machine, I'll admit that windows
> doesn't give you as much control as GNU/Linux does. Having said that,
> I still maintain that windows, and AVG-free give the user quite a bit
> of control. I would say it gives the user more control than it
> doesn't. It's just a matter of knowing what to set, and where, and the
> internet is your friend here if your own knowledge comes up short.
> 
> Greg
> 
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