Which in your opnion is better? I have been using avast for about a year now but was just wondering if AVG would be better? Thanks

They are both wonderful programs.

It is all up to personal preference really.

I had Avast then switched over to Free AVG. I find that AVG is just a little more user friendly. It is also much faster. IMHO

I too now choose to use AVG.

I have had Norton - too slow in updating; I got infected while using it too.

Avast has gotten better in recent years (I've not used it in three or four).
I have acquaintances who swear by Avast now days.

I've just put McAfee on the sideline 'till my subscription runs out shortly. I was never infected while using McAfee, but
IMHO it's a resource hog. And I was never happy with the auto-update feature which
caused problems for me at times with some other running programs.

Try them both out I'd say and choose your preference as Scarlett suggested.

regards,
~Koan

Thank You! I had read where Avast is a resource hog and AVG is much better. Thanks again! And Happy New Year!

You are welcome. And the same to you.

Recently, I deleted AVG6 and installed AVG7, which gave me some problems in sending POP emails. I deleted AVG and loaded Avast. The latter seemed much slower and ate up too much resources, so I went back to AVG7. I have used AVG for several years, and have found it to be very reliable.
Cheers,
John

Avast is taking up 14,500k is that alot more than AVG?

It is slightly less, as I see it, than AVG. Where the difference between the two was evident, at least on my computer, was the time it took each to do a complete scan, and the amount of memory each took up simply running in the background. In both of these areas, Avast seemed to be much slower, and to take up a lot more operating resources.

Since both are free downloads, you might want to give each of these a try. You may find one easier to use, or faster than the other (speed may very well depend on how you have your HD(s) configured or the amount of space used).

Regards,
John