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Kitka
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RE: ditching Norton AV for AVG - 5/16/2005 18:45:39
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Drive Image has been reccomended to me many times on hardware forums. I would give them a good look!
Powerquest Drive Image is no longer available except second-hand. Symantec took over the company. If you go to http://www.powerquest.com/ and click on Drive Image 7, you are taken to the Norton Ghost page.
We have been using Acronis True Image 7 for a couple of years. But it is a tempermental beast, won't work on some computers irrespective of operating system, yet works like a dream on others. With computers that it won't work on, we use Terabyte Image for Windows http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/imagew.html which is a nifty little utility.
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Kitka
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RE: ditching Norton AV for AVG - 5/16/2005 19:24:59
If anyone is planning to get True Image, I suggest you try the demo first and read the support forum:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65
It is an excellent product - when it works. So don't part with your money till you are sure it works for you.
We had purchased v7 and when we had problems 12 months down the track, support suggested we download the updates for it which we did. But it still didn't work. So then we downloaded the v8 demo and that wouldn't work either. There were very angry rumblings in the forum by other people experiencing similar problems to us.
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RE: ditching Norton AV for AVG - 5/16/2005 21:20:59
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Any users recommending it?
- Recommend it for what? Someone that doesn't want to spend money? I think it is good as in better to have than nothing, but I wouldn't recommend that over the major paid AV.
For freebies, Avast and AVG are both good. I wouldn't compare AV freebies to paid AV software though, as there is a pretty big difference between the performance. If you are making a budget machine AVG or Avast would be fine, but if you have $30, I would highly suggest spending it on some paid AV.
I'll do a quick search for the thread I started that has all the info about why paid = better.
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RE: ditching Norton AV for AVG - 5/17/2005 0:06:31
For some reason I can't find all the good info I had before, and apparently I didn't post the other tests either :/
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