For a while now, we’ve become slowly but surely convinced that Symantec AntiVirus is no longer the industry leader in business virus protection software.  It is difficult for us to dismiss a software that we felt so strongly was the long-time superior choice for virus prevention, but the time has come.  Our new product of choice is AVG Anti-Virus Business Edition.

Two primary reasons jump out at us as the reasons for switching our support from Symantec to AVG.  First and foremost, Symantec is simply allowing too many viruses through its defenses.  Newer, more “effective” viruses are often able to get around Symantec and infect computers rampantly.  Many times the infections not only get around Symantec, but they disable it so that systems become susceptible to other viruses as well.

Our other reason for concern is that their newer software has become “bloated” and the interface has become “clunky”.  These aren’t particularly technical terms, it just means that the software hogs a lot of your system resources, sometimes to the detriment of network communications, and that it’s also difficult to navigate through the screens and options.

Overall, Symantec is just not cutting it anymore, especially with such capable competition.  Our new recommendation, like I mentioned, is AVG.  This isn’t just our opinion, it’s currently the #1 choice for small businesses.  We’ve noticed marked improvement in both virus prevention effectiveness as well as system performance over similar systems loaded with Symantec.

I should mention that AVG has a free version of their software available for download.  This is great for home use (I use it myself), but remember that the license specifically says “not for business use”.  In the office, you’ll want to purchase the licenses for the Business version.  Give us a call if you’d like help upgrading your system to AVG AntiVirus.