In your personal and professional opinion (assuming you are a pro) which is better....?

Question

Avast! Antivirus 4 Home edition or AVG 8 free edtion?

Answer 1

I dislike both, but I know AVG is a hair better.

Answer 2

I have experienced AVG 8 Free helping one or two who insisted on it and I've worked with the previous AVG 7, but for myself (and anyone I can influence enough) I've settled with Avast.  Avast does not feel like a cut-down advertisement for a paid-for version, and the modular design allows for a lot of fine-tuning of its operation, including functions such as URL blocking (although, true enough, you can do this is many other ways and it isn't really the job of an AV program) and the options in the mail module are particularly useful.  This level of control is simply not present in the free AVG.