Cyberiade.it Anonymous Remailer wrote:

>
> I guess it comes down to what the end-user considers to be more
> important, anti-virus, or anti-spyware? I know they're both
> important, but I'm pretty sure that anti-virus is more important. In
> fact I know it is.

The average user now encounters variants of spyware probably more then
viruses....

You should read through all the improvements to
> AVG Free 8.0. According to the manufacturer, it's a lot better than
> the old AVG Free 7.5.

Well duh, the 'new' one is always better according to the manufacturer.

> And my computer is running so much faster and
> smoother since I uninstalled S&D and SpywareBlaster, I can't imagine
> why anyone would opt out of the AVG freeware upgrade?

Because, quite frankly it is awful, it is slow, it is unresponsive, it
insists on scanning on a daily basis, and takes five hours to do the scan.
While the scan engine is running it sucks 100% of resources....

> They say you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
> lol!

Try installing avg 8.0 on an older machine, you will see why. I could quite
confidently take norton 06/07/08 off a win xp machine with 256/512 mb of
memory, and replace it with avg 7.0/7.5 and see a visible and clear
improvement in speed of a system. That is no longer the case.

I will ahve to start using Avira Antivir, i am trying it out now, so far ok,
seems pretty limited though.

Gaz