I am wondering if someone can confirm to me whether AVG Free and Avast(Also Free) can be installed together??

2. Or they interfere with each other,s working??

3. In which case which of the two should be chosen??

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If u install AVG first, then when trying to install Avast, it will know and shut down its real-time guarding function and jsut install the rest. This is last time i met the case when i did that.

For Computer laymen, I would say go for AVG 7. It has improved the auto-update process n less sluggish for the system. But it is not convience to temporarily disabled the real-time guard which i think AVG think it should be for laymen n newbies.

For technically competent, I would say go for Avast. In terms of easy of use, resource loading are a bit reverse the experience to AVG 7. But it provides more extra protecting function n the temporarily disabled function is easy to use.

dickson (HK)

While we're at it, how does Avast compare as regards the resources it uses? Light, heavy...?
Anyone...? Thanks

I used AVG6 for a long time. When I upgraded to AVG7, it crashed me and I lost a lot of data and had other data scrambled. I looked at the AVG Free forum, and it seems that a lot of people had that experience. I can't afford THAT again, so I'm staying away.

Avast usues minimal resources.

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Both are good antivirus software, i have no experience with them myself, but ive heard good things about them, I think the choice would be which suits u the best, so try Avast and compare..

Do some reading here - avast forum: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?board=2

I tried mcAfee, norton, etrust (inoculatelT) avast and Anitivir and went back to etrust even after it crashed my system during a recent uninstall of the program. Easy to install and run and has kept me safe for years as for support - I give it a poor rating:-(

Just my 2¢

Is there any site where I can go through the performance evaluation of AVG, Avast and Antivir??

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AVG 7 Free installed on a Windows ME 933 mhz machine . Haven't had a single problem with it so far , downloads the updates in about 2 seconds . Might a little more resource intense than Version 6 but not enough to make much of a difference and i'm running a older machine too . If you install it , reccomend pulling off whatever AV you are currently using , I pulled off Version6 before installing Version 7 and had no problems whatsoever .