I was a fan of AVG for a few years. I'm not really into all the "signature" based security stuff but I don't want to be infected by some old virus and have it killed my box. My happy medium was that I would use the best "free" anti-virus I could and leave it at that. Well I decided to give an end-point security solution a try. More on that in another post but before I removed AVG I did an update and ran the full scan of my C: drive for grins. The next morning I checked the results and no problems found. So I uninstall AVG and installed one of the two end-point solutions I've wanted to trial. After installing the first, I downloaded all the updates and started a full scan of my C: drive again with the end-point solution. Later that day I came back to find over a 16 viruses, and 4 spyware programs on my system. Most were false positives, being that I installed them (security research) but a few were the real deal. After cleaning my system I tried to think about what this result could mean.
- AVG isn't as good as I thought?
- AVG "restores" some of the viruses it removes after you uninstall it? I doubt it but...
- The new "Genetic Heuristic" technology works better then I thought?
- My system is totally screw with or without Anti-Virus? Highly probable.
After the latest issues in the news with AVG removing "critical" files from Windows host forcing a recover/re-install. I was happy I jumped off that wagon when I did. I'm still trialing the first security suite for another 4 days. After the first trial is over I'll start the next trail before giving my review. So my question is do you really get what you pay for? If I pay for the full version of AVG would that have found all the viruses it missed in the free version? Also do you use any anti-virus or end-point security and if so how do you like it. Please post in the comments your feedback.
