Security Software Testing Continues
Dec 9th, 2005 by Don Ray
My free trial of AVG with Firewall has ended. I liked the product. It is very PC friendly and has very low overhead. I still want to try a couple more products, but I am not going to do that until next year.
In the meantime, I have backed off to Free AVG and the Free Zone Alarm for a firewall. I can tell that I have a little more overhead on my PC and that has to be attributed to Zone Alarm. I don’t know if it is doing a better job than AVG’s firewall, but I do notice the overhead increase.
As far as the AVG anti virus part of the software, the only real thing I miss is being able to schedule multiple automatic updates of the virus database during the day. This isn’t much of a problem as I can do it manually a couple times a day. I am still getting more updates that I was getting with Norton.
