Why do so many people prefer AVG 8 Free than avast 4 Free?

I saw it on CNET.

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 1,639,723 downloads
Avast Home Edition 382,894 downloads

I’ve used both and LOOK!:-

AVG 8 FREE
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Anti-virus=yes
Anti-Worm=yes
Anti-Trojan=yes
Anti-Spyware=yes
Anti-Adware=yes
Anti-Rootkit=NO
Anti-Spam=NO
Internet Protection=NO (Except the Link Scanner which doesn’t scan for viruses but for moral values)
Intruder Protection=NO
Torrent/P2P Shield=NO
Messenger Shield=NO
Boot Scan=NO
Interface=Enhanced
Scheduled Scanning=yes
Virus detection=To the standard of free anti-virus programs

avast! Home Edition 4.0
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Anti-virus=yes
Anti-Worm=yes
Anti-Trojan=yes
Anti-Spyware=yes
Anti-Adware=yes
Anti-Rootkit=yes
Anti-Spam=yes
Internet Protection=yes
Intruder Protection=yes
Torrent/P2P Shield=yes
Messenger Shield=yes
Boot Scan=yes
Interface=simple
Scheduled Scanning=NO
Virus detection=Good like the paid-for antivirus programs.

They don’t realise that AVG have lower detection rates than Avast and the version 8 is a resource hog.

http://www.virusbtn.com/Session-af34a0de2c52cf07abf64ebe4fd528f6/news/2008/09_02

Avast is a very effective and free anti-virus program because it can do
a boot time scan in safe mode and it will remove all viruses on your PC.
Even those stubborn trojan viruses that hide inside the system restore folder.

I have tried AVG 7.5 before. In the end I have use Avast 4.8 to remove the stubborn virus.

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