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Antivirus, which one choose?

Postby stefano » Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:49 pm

Hi to all.
My Norton is expiring in few days, and i wish to change to something different,maybe not so heavy, if it is possible...
My possibly choose are
Kaspersky
Panda
McAfee
Anyone can suggest me one of these that has experience with?

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Re: Antivirus, which one choose?

Postby ozzy72 » Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:09 am

I used to use Kaspersky and liked it (but this was a few years back). Have you considered AVG, it is free and really good!
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Re: Antivirus, which one choose?

Postby Fozzer » Thu Feb 08, 2007 5:24 am

...silly me...

I purchased, and Installed Norton SystemWorks many years ago...
It was costing me a fortune to keep paying for it every year, and now I can't get rid of it without doing a complete Format of my hard drive....

...so my present advice would be....

Grissoft's AVG, free program... :-*...!

...with it's automatic, regular, free up-grades.... :)...!

It seem to work fine... ;)...!

Paul...Virus-free...(apart from an annoying cough).... [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]....!

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
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Re: Antivirus, which one choose?

Postby Politically Incorrect » Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:39 am

Norton-Even when you stop paying for it, your will still pay for it.  ;D
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Re: Antivirus, which one choose?

Postby beaky » Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:06 am

Two years online with nothing but the default firewall and Spybot (which isn't really an antivirus program), and my machine has never gotten "sick" from anything out there...

I don't download much stuff, though... that may be why.

A tip: don't download images- grab 'em with irfanview.
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Re: Antivirus, which one choose?

Postby stefano » Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:28 pm

Thanks for the suggestions guys, i was thinking to go for AWG, i have had time ago, and was fine, probably the best solution.
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Re: Antivirus, which one choose?

Postby Alonso » Fri Feb 09, 2007 1:06 pm

I stayed with Avast for 3 months, but whenever I'm flightsimulating or playing a game, it updates and crashes the game, so I'm downlading AVG again now... it is simply the best ;)
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Re: Antivirus, which one choose?

Postby kilotango » Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:51 pm

Forget Norton and other payware av. They want to get in control of your system.
AVG is IT.
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Re: Antivirus, which one choose?

Postby flymo » Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:59 pm

AVG free is the the best download u will ever make, it has kept me safe for years!

i currently have NOD32 but it lets to many things through its not great, so when i format my XP OS partition 2moro im installing AVG for my AV :D

seriously though, AVG free is your best bet!!! you can not go wrong!

i got computer shopper 2day and they have an artivle on anti virus  programs im gonan read it 2moro and i will tell u what they recomend...

but AVG FREE FTW!
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Re: Antivirus, which one choose?

Postby alrot » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:02 pm

AVG
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Re: Antivirus, which one choose?

Postby flymo » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:04 pm

AVG


im sorry alrot but i didnt quite get the point of your message :P ;D
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Re: Antivirus, which one choose?

Postby DizZa » Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:21 am

Panda is a great anti-virus. It got rid of a few viruses that NO OTHER could.
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Re: Antivirus, which one choose?

Postby Jimbo » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:31 am

NOD32 ALL THE WAy, 100%. I will personally pay you
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Re: Antivirus, which one choose?

Postby Politically Incorrect » Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:26 am

[quote]NOD32 ALL THE WAy, 100%. I will personally pay you
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Re: Antivirus, which one choose?

Postby Chris_F » Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:42 am

I've used both Norton and McAffee and dislike them both.  They both nag me to upgrade to their other products on a fairly regular basis.  If I wanted to put spamware on my computer I wouldn't have bought software specfically intended to stop it.  Little did I know that software WAS spamware...
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