Avast aquired AVG for $1.3 billion

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2 of the best free AV's become 1.

Hope its better due to consolidation. Competition is pretty strong in this arena.
 
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Avast is in the process to acquire AVG. The Management Boards and Supervisory Boards has approved and supported the transaction, now the AVG shareholders has to accept the deal.

It is a massive deal, ignoring the security suites owned, developed and maintained by AVG, AVG has acquired many other companies and technologies over the years, many placed in the managed services industry.

I would like to see what will be happening to distributor, reselling and other partnership structures that AVG had in place.
 
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Slootvreter said:
I've stopped using both because of their spammy pop-ups
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Free versions? You can normally disable the popups in the AV application. I use Panda Free Antivirus at home, light, gratis and easy to disable the news popups.
 
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Rickster said:
In the past it flagged all my game cracks as viruses...stupid anti virus :D
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:crylaugh:

The AV vendors today has greatly matured. Norton is good again, good at detecting, blocking and removing threats, but it is irritating as hell to have it installed on a device, and it is generally shipped with near every device. I condemn pre-installed trials, especially when the application is a drawback to the user’s experience.

Today it more what an AV (or anti-malware) can do, additionally to its core purpose, and how proactively the vendor reacts to zero-day vulnerabilities. Business and enterprise solutions should be rich and light on system resources. Home users by the numbers opt between AVG and Avast or nothing which is why MS has been pushing their AV on Windows.
 
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Fulcrum29 said:
AVG is okay.

It scores well on VB100,

VB100 results from 2015-12 (latest) on Windows 10 Pro

https://www.virusbulletin.com/virusbulletin/2015/12/vb100-comparative-review

AV Comparatives also has a good AVG benchmark. It is not a product that I will recommend due to it being a resource hog.
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AVG's main allure is the amazingly cheap AVG Ultimate here in SA. I paid R499 for mine and it contains all their stuff (minus the VPN) for as many devices as you want. I gave my entire extended family AVG Internet Security and AVG Tune-up.
 
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lestoran said:
2 of the best free AV's become 1.

Hope its better due to consolidation. Competition is pretty strong in this arena.
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Lol


Clearly you don't know Kaspersky and eset.

Avg is k@k and avast on Windows 10 has endless issues and cpu drain
 
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AVG is lighter than avast and does dynamic prompts well. Eset is also good but treats you like a child in telling you which files may or may not be dynamically added to the exclusion list. Bitdefender is a pain and I just plain do NOT trust kaspersky for a variety of reasons.
 
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Been using AVG for the last 5 years... licensed for 6 PC's..... no problem....
 
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rambo919 said:
AVG is lighter than avast and does dynamic prompts well. Eset is also good but treats you like a child in telling you which files may or may not be dynamically added to the exclusion list. Bitdefender is a pain and I just plain do NOT trust kaspersky for a variety of reasons.
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Distrust Kaspersky.... Mmmm
 
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