Comments on: AVG 8.0 Review & Screenshots

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:43:08 +0000

I have AVG 8 and it is awful. Slows computer to a crawl, fire wall won’t let me connect to internet, and it took more than 4 weeks for the company to reply to my email. My advice – don’t go near AVG

By: liljohnnie

liljohnnie — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:42:47 +0000

bread wrote:

nod32, Avast, AVG 7.5, and other AntiVirus and AntiSpy can’t delete Antivirus XP 2008, well i think AVG 8.0 will do….

I know what you mean about Antivirus XP 2008,heard good things about windows onecare,used it and it kicked that suckers butt. As far as AVG 8.0 we shall see,just installed it and it seems to be running smoothly and i like the fact it has a rootkit scanner,doesn't seem to slow me down too much either.It's configurable so if you don't like the web shield,firewall,e-mail scanner,link scanner,or reident shield turn 'em off,you can't complain it doesn't have enough gadgets even for the most gadget hungry.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:32:12 +0000

I’ve tried to download AVG 8.0 onto an XP machine at least 9 times…from the AVG site and CNET…I keep getting corrupt file messages. I’m dial up, way out in the boonies and old phone lines. Tried to get their customer service to help, got nothing but boiler plate sales garbage. AVG 7.5 was great but forget AVG 8.0…there are just way too many other free and excellent AV’s out there to deal with this KRAP.

By: bread

bread — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:20:50 +0000

nod32, Avast, AVG 7.5, and other AntiVirus and AntiSpy can’t delete Antivirus XP 2008, well i think AVG 8.0 will do….

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:38:12 +0000

TERRIBLE!! Justy installed it and it was a HUGE mistake. Slowed system to a crawl, bloatware, corrupted files, ………don’t upgrade. You’ll be sorry.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:52:56 +0000

Sven G wrote:

Upgraded my AVG 7.5 anti-virus + firewall to AVG 8.0. Though everything went smoothly, my computer now runs noticably slower. It’s not a big problem, but it’s there. I do hesitate about this product.

I've only tested the memory usage with the free version really, which doesn't include the firewall. So unfortunately I'm not sure if the slowdown is all that common with AVG 8 Pro.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:47:05 +0000

Sven G wrote:

Upgraded my AVG 7.5 anti-virus to AVG 8.0. Though everything went smoothly, my computer now runs noticably slower. It’s not a big problem, but it’s there. I do hesitate about this product.

So did i on my XP Machine and the same story so i when back to 7.5 may try Avast! soon AVG 8 - 25-30mb Ram usage AVG 7.5 - 1.5mb Ram usage

By: Sven G

Sven G — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:26:14 +0000

Upgraded my AVG 7.5 anti-virus + firewall to AVG 8.0. Though everything went smoothly, my computer now runs noticably slower. It’s not a big problem, but it’s there. I do hesitate about this product.

By: Old User

Old User — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:50:50 +0000

I have used AVG for years without problems. Version 8 of the network version has been a nightmare. Not only IE but many programs run very slow on computers with this installation. All of the twenty users I installed the program on had problems and asked to have it removed.

By: buck

buck — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:50:21 +0000

AVG has a nice set-up there with version 8.0,but like any new program there’s bugs to be worked out. I’ll give it a year then take another look. As far as NOD32 3.0 WOW what a nice program to work with,never saw a antivirus program set-up like that before. Very happy with it you don’t even know it’s there,SWEEEEEET. Buck