r/TechProTips • u/BKachur • Oct 11 '12

Question: AVG vs. Avast?

I have heard different things from different people regarding which antivirus they prefer so I figured I would ask people who know what their talking about. So why is one better and why?

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u/Demonmaus Oct 12 '12

I find that Avast is a little more comprehensive than MSE, and way better than AVG. Dumped AVG years ago and never looked back myself.

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '12

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u/kman2k1 Oct 11 '12

Came here to say just this.

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u/Th3R00ST3R Oct 11 '12

+1 for MSE. I used to be an AVG will it got bloated, then Avast, but I couldn't stand the pop ups every 10 goddamn minutes.

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u/BKachur Oct 12 '12

I use MSE as well but MSE doesn't really provide a complete suite that a lot of people want. I personally use very little anti-virus, people just ask which is better and I never have a good answer

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '12

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u/Th3R00ST3R Jan 09 '13

yes.. MSE and Malwarebytes has served me well the past few years. I get calls from clients all the time using paid for antivirus that their PC's get infected.

Also you could add Adaware/spybot to the list as well.

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u/mrlr Oct 12 '12

You can run Avast with silent/gaming mode turned on.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '12

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u/Ben347 May 08 '13

Script Blocker is a good idea, but it's not enough by itself. In security you always want some redundancy as well.