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Originally Posted by MattLFC

(personally, I don't like or agree with W3C compliance however).
One of the cornerstones of the W3C is that internet should be available to anyone. Compliant sites makes it much easier for 'enabling software', like screen readers, to function properly. Hence the increasing prevelance of jump-to-content links at the top of pages (even if they are hidden using CSS), especially on news websites.

Also with the release of IE8 several high profile sites have stopped supporting earlier versions of IE, for example take a look at wikipedia in IE6.

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Ever since ive updates my AVG Antivirus to number 9 my PC has been running like a bag shite.. Ive uninstalled this know and im using NOD and it flies like a concorde.. My new recommendation is know NOD!!!
Updated AVG to version 9 last night, been holding off since Oct 2009 because therewere problems .... THERE STILL ARE problems, AVG9 brought both Opera and IE to a standstill.

Having been a staunch supporter of AVG, I am annoyed that they haven't sorted out these problems in the last 4 months.

Will go back to AVG 8 until I decide what to do.


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I've been using AVG for many years, mainly because I'm a skinflint, and I have never had a virus get through. I upgraded to v9 ages ago and it works as well as it ever did, i.e.brilliantly.
I also am a staunch advocate of I.E., tried Firefox, Chrome et al, rubbish in comparison IMO.

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I started using Avast (which is also free) after I had problems with AVG - computer runs a lot better now.

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Avast is only good if you switch on that funny mode it has (forgotten name in case you didn't guess) but if you switch that on then the computer runs like a dog.


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Avira is the one for me. Blows AVG and Avast out the water, laptop runs a hell of alot quicker and had no virus's since i've been running it.

It's also free aswell.


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Avira is the one for me. Blows AVG and Avast out the water, laptop runs a hell of alot quicker and had no virus's since i've been running it.

It's also free aswell.
Just about decided to have a look at that and then spotted your recommend.


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http://www.free-av.com/

http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php

these are the 2 I use, do a full proper scan. Takes around 30mins for the 1st scan.


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Originally Posted by MrPhil
do a full proper scan. Takes around 30mins for the 1st scan.


Avira takes about 11 hours to do the standard scan on my computer.

But that may be because I have 118,264 files in 15,870 folders.

Miss AVG's email scanner, other than that Avira looks ok.


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I use AVG. Should I uninstall AVG before installing Avira? Sometime these programmes conflict with each other?
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I use AVG. Should I uninstall AVG before installing Avira? Sometime these programmes conflict with each other?
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Yes, definitely uninstal AVG before installing Avira, as long as you don't download anything else, your computer is safe whilst you do this process.


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I use AVG. Should I uninstall AVG before installing Avira? Sometime these programmes conflict with each other?
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Yes, definitely uninstal AVG before installing Avira, as long as you don't download anything else, your computer is safe whilst you do this process.

After reading on this thread about AVG 9 causing problems it set me thinking. I downloaded it about two weeks ago and have had nothing but trouble opening web-pages since. I never really tied the two together though.
Uninstalled AVG 9, Downloaded Avira, computer's working like clockwork again!
I was so close to putting my coffee mug through my screen sooooo many times waiting for pages to load and it was AVG 9 all along.
Thanks for the tip-off everyone.

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I was the same mate, broke the golden rule of not doing two updates at once, my Three Dongle updated at the same time I went to AVG9 - I assumed it was the dongle update that went wrong, then I tried a Vodaphone Dongle and it was the same.

This problem with AVG9 has been running since they brought it out in October last year, they blame it on ZoneAlarm and reckon Zonealarm have promised a fix - but I removed ZoneAlarm and still had the same problem.

AVG have built up a good reputation which is now in shatters, noticed that Avira had 50% more downloads on DOWNLOAD.COM, this could be the end of AVG. McAfee got complacent a few years ago, when they were market leader and have never recovered.

AVG8.5 was an excellent product, AVG9 is the pits, what a shame.


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Everyone has always had different views on AV and guess it will always be that way.

I currently use AVG9 Free and it works perfectly for me on Windows 7 32 Bit with 2GB RAM anyway. I've used AVG for a long time after I got sick of Norton getting so bloated. After a while hearing so many people say how great Avira was and I was doing a reinstall of Windows anyway i thought i would give it a try. A few weeks in and I had the first virus problem I had experienced in many years. Back to AVG for me and fine ever since.

I have installed 8 and 8.5 on XP machines and a couple of Vista for friends and relatives and one thing I have never been called up for is a Virus problem.

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