Fact of the matter is,

Pros: It's cheap enough to back up your own data these days. This app., as many of the reviews claim ran real slow for me. Hogged system recources during a time when I was reay to shut down the PC for the day. True that access to your personal data from any location is a god feature of this app and with up to 50GB storage you can't beat it for the price. However, it's not that expensive to back up by burning a DVD ocasionally You can now buy DVD's with

capacity that exceeds 40GB although not necessary for back up as they are expensive.

Cons: For myself I'e found that a 160GB external USB attached storage device like the RD1000 sold by "Dell" for a reasoable price is the way to go. Also a 2GB "Cruzer Mini" Travel drive can be purchased for under $40.00 (if you shop) is the safest way to"TAKE IT WITH YOU" sort of speak. Personally I like to retain control over my personal data and somehow I'm just not comfortable with my info stored on someone elses server. Thus I cannot recomend this app.

Posted: 05-Dec-2006 11:51:57 AM

Overpriced and Overrated

Pros: Like I said. Overpriced and Overrated. The only thing I liked about it was the clean interface. It may be good on a machine like a "Dell XPS" desktop with dual core processor and 2 GB ram. I heard good things about this product but after testing it I'd have to disagree.

Cons: Downloaded this product and before I could use it I had to create an account. Why should I have to give any personal information to use a so-called free trial.

I did then ran the updates. Afterward I ran a full scan which took forever on my #2 machine which only has 15.2 GB used on the hard disc including the OS and drivers. It has 1.5 GB ram and it was dragged down. It found 1 tracking cookie, My "Weather Bug" which is classified low risk and allowed by all my other app's. and 1 "Firefox" extension it called a "Cool Web Search Variant". Active protection is over bearing and uses more CPU than "Counter Spy" and "AVG 7.5 Anti Spyware" (Formerally "Ewido") together. Keep it. Deffinatly not for the average PC user evan with a fairley good machine.

Posted: 11-Nov-2006 01:38:05 PM

Formerly "Ewido 4.0"

Pros: I purchased this product when it was "Ewido" and liked it very much. Depended on it for active protection and all. Supposedly after reading reviews on other forumns the newer app., AVG Anti-Spyware 7.5 is better. (supposedly) I was advised that my "Ewido" license would transfer. (it did). everything O.K. so far right? Wrong! After the merger or buy out by "Grissoft" the signature database increased to more than 500,000 signatures. To big for an anti spy app. Ran a scan and it found C:/System_Volume_restorexxxxxx as a high risk. Now I know nasties can hide there but this one was my IE saved screen names and passwords. I didn't realize it at first so I let the app. delete the supposed trojan. WRONG!!!

Cons: False positive raised hell with my IE. Grown to big for an anti-spy app and can no longer be trusted period. Very disapointed with what "Grissoft" has done to my favorite anti-spy app. I can no longer in good concience recomend this app. Took me 45 min. to repair my IE. Confirmed the false pos. by running my other apps whis=ch found nothing!

Posted: 30-Nov-2006 02:41:42 PM