Judicandus wrote:
> On May 7, 9:28 pm, "Gaz" <gaz...@msn.com> wrote:
>> Dave Seven wrote:
>>> Gaz wrote:
>>
>>>> Maybe it uses the Norton Internet Security method, by making your
>>>> computer using experieince so slow and pointless as to stop you
>>>> using the computer as much.
>>
>>>> Gaz
>>
>>> Yea, but nothing can be as bad as Norton. Those mofos don't even
>>> provide a proper uninstaller with the program and you have to go
>>> download a utility from their website if you want your PC Norton
>>> free once again.
>>> I have a few PCs here so should probably install AVG 8.0 one one of
>>> them just to see how customizable it is and what the differences
>>> are.
>>
>> Came across the AVG 8.0 Security suite, which seems to include anti
>> virus, anti spyware, spam checker, firewall, rootkit, coffee maker,
>> kitchen sink etc.
>>
>> Customer insisted they wanted it installed, system 2.6 celeron,
>> 512mb of memory, very lean startup (courtesy of hijackthis), all
>> temp files cleaned (courtesy of crapcleaner), windows animations
>> turned off, just the absolute necessity, the machine was as fast as
>> it could realistically be, even with aol, the chosen provider/
>>
>> Installed AVG 8.0 security suite, and it went from nice and zippy,
>> to wading through treacle. The startup wasnt to bad, maybe an extra
>> 20 seconds or so, internet explorer was a bit slower, but managable,
>> however the aol browser was awful, it went from ok to dial up style
>> speed. Not jsut the loading of the software, but the actual internet
>> speed reduced, web browsing was like a
>> 14.4k modem. IE7 seemed ok, if just a bit slower.
>>
>> I am so disapointed in a programme i have used and raved about for
>> half a decade.
>>
>> Gaz
>
> Well, the slowdown might be caused by an incompability between the AOL
> browser and the Web Shield component. A 20 seconds slowdown is
> considerable and shouldn't be normal. In my personal opinion, 5 to 10s
> slowdown is normal. The fact that IE7 gets a bit slower is probably
> because Web Shield is installed and it checks all content downloaded
> from the internet (with windows vista it might get extremely slow if a
> bug fix is not installed, see: http://www.grisoft.com/ww.support , FAQ
> 1177 ).
> From my personal tests, the virus detection rate by AVG got a lot
> better (unfortunately it doesn't seem like there are any comparatives
> that use the 8.0, if anyone has a trustworthy website with such
> analysis I would appreciate it).
>
> Some specific information is that, first, in AVG 7.5 Anti-Malware, for
> example, the engines were separate (there was Ewido's engine, and
> AVG's engine, therefore being a bit heavy on the system). Now they
> have redesigned the whole engine so that spyware and virus would be
> detected by the same engine. This has increased performance and memory
> used considerably (in comparison to antivirus + antispyware however).
> For AVG Free customers, most probably it will be a little bit heavier
> since it now contains also the Anti-Spyware protection.
>
> Considering the RAM memory, it really depends on which other programs
> the user uses. 512 ram should be fine for users who don't use memory
> consuming programs (like skype for example), it's always best to have
> more ram memory than the normally occupied.
>
> For some specific technical reasons, it is now possible to add
> specific instructions faster to AVG's core, so that it is much easier
> to add new functionalities for threat detection to AVG without
> necessary modifying the core. Virus definitions and new features can
> now be added almost instantaneously.
>
> There shouldn't be any problems with the free version. Specifically
> talking about the payed version, I've seen some people having problems
> with the Firewall (in some cases it might conflict with the hardware
> blocking the internet connection) and with the Web Shield (I've heard
> some people having problems with a real slowdown of the computer, the
> only practical solution is to uninstall that component in particular).
>
> I guess this is pretty much it.

An issue i had also, installing another paid for avg 8.0 suite, the firewall
is quite tricky to configure, it automatically scans the system for
programmes that should require internet access. The automatic system seems
to screw up permission rules for Outlook Express, it allows incoming email
by pop, but blocks smtp on port 25. I needed to change to an alternative
port to get email to work.

Gaz