Avg and avast detection rate?

Question

avg 8.0 and avast Avast Home Edition detection rates

Answer 1

Avast and Antivir are the best free ones get then from http://www.download.com.

You should forget AVG 8.0 free edition it has a nice interface but is poor at blocking viruses so not worth using.

I've tested both Avast Home Edition (free) and AVG 8.0 (free), AVG let me save 75% of the test viruses to my hard drive only blocking 25% were as Avast blocked 75% of viruses, Avast picked up the other 25% of the viruses that were in zip files the second I tried to extract them.

I use Avast combined with Comodo Pro on my XP home computer and have no problems with virus's or spyware.

Test them yourself: http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_fil...

Answer 2

http://www.av-comparatives.org/

Example from Avast and AVG Free v. Paid:

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast-compare-h...

http://free.avg.com/ww.download-avg-anti...

Personally I prefer Avast, better detection rates and greater protection.  AVG was ok up to V7.5, but V8 is pretty bloated and much slower though many do use it, but Avast is fast gaining on Grisoft.