I’d like to say that I was sad to part with this old friend, but I probably wouldn’t be telling the truth. My relationship with AVG goes back a long way, since version five (I think), but now, with version 8 having been released in the last month or two, I’ve been less than impressed.
Perhaps if I actually bothered to pay for it, then perhaps I’d get the features that I’d like to see, but I found that I could no longer schedule a full scan. I dunno, perhaps I missed it somewhere in the new interface, which all seemed a little bit disjointed and not quite as intuitive as the previous version.
I had stuck with it, because I couldn’t really find a suitable alternative. I’ve tried BitDefender, but I found myself able to fall in it. I’ve tried the free trials of McAffee, and found it to be a little bit resource intensive. Norton, which I have free access to with BT Total Broadband lasted about an hour because it brought my system to a grinding halt.
So, I hit the web and began looking for reviews. I tried a few different ones (whose names escape me now), but finally I discovered Comodo. As far as I know it’s still a beta (do I trust crucial system tasks to beta software), but so far I’m quite impressed. It’s more lightweight in terms of memory use, and it seems to scan fairly quickly, both of which were high on the list of priorities.
It did pick up one program (part of the Sony Ericsson PC suite) that it said was a trojan. I’m not sure if it is, but I’ve submitted the file for analysis. Perhaps it’ll turn out to be a false positive. In the meantime, I’m quite happy to play along with Comodo. Does anyone else have anything to say about it?
