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| Thread ID: 137018 | 2014-05-13 09:27:00 | whats the best free antivirus to use | petemit (1134) | Press F1 |
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| 1374898 | 2014-05-13 09:27:00 | Hi I am going to use a free antivirus on a computer I use online sometimes and would like to know the best one to use I dont want one which uses lots of system resources to run it as comp only has a couple of gb of ram and 50 gb of hard drive it is running Xp profesional cheers thanks Peter |
petemit (1134) | ||
| 1374899 | 2014-05-13 09:54:00 | Question is, do you need one? There maybe a few, BUT they may or may not support XP now | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1374900 | 2014-05-13 10:05:00 | If you must use a free one, the one I put on customers computers is 360 Internet Security 2013 ( NO ITS NOT NORTON) May be Chinese company but its actually not to bad the main engine is from Bitdefender. (it will eat all the other free ones) A review from www.wilderssecurity.com (www.wilderssecurity.com) If you want to try it go to 360safe.com and get it, download.com has to much crap and trys to install its own installers :( I've installed it on XP and it works fine. Normally I'd put on Nod32, but some people are to tight to pay for it ;) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1374901 | 2014-05-13 10:09:00 | Hmm oka hadnt thought of that I just presumed they would still have antivirus for it Any thoughts of trend micro security agent as I have that on a comp running Vista busines which I was useing at work but have it at home so will need antivirus for that. Is there any advantage in having a paid for antivirus instead of free as far as picking up virus goes Thanks Peter |
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| 1374902 | 2014-05-13 10:15:00 | Any thoughts of trend micro security agent :devil:yuck::yuck::yuck::yuck: | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1374903 | 2014-05-13 10:23:00 | Hi Wainui tech I presume that means you hate Trend Micro ? I might remove it off this computer and run 360 safe since Im no longer using it at work What are the current best anti malware programs to run I have run malawarebytes but from memory there were a couple of other ones which were good and found different problems I had to remove them as the computer tech where I worked said they were incompatible with the trend antivirus and caused the computer problems so I uninstalled them ( this was a couple of years ago) Thanks Peter |
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| 1374904 | 2014-05-13 11:01:00 | ... A review from www.wilderssecurity.com (www.wilderssecurity.com) If you want to try it go to 360safe.com and get it, download.com has to much crap and trys to install its own installers :( ... Came across that, it has lots of crap ware came with it and hijacks the browser with lots of pop-ups. Very hard to remove it completely. Hate it! |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1374905 | 2014-05-13 11:09:00 | Hi Bk t Thanks for your reply did you download it directly from the site as Waimui Tech sugested I do or did you download though download.com? |
petemit (1134) | ||
| 1374906 | 2014-05-13 11:10:00 | Personally ( and a lot of others here) also run / suggest Nod32 ( its a paid AV.) Interesting comment regarding Trend and your IT guy-- It will be trend thats causing the problems. Generally programs that are regularly used, Malwarebytes 2 (much improved over the previous version), Spybot just to name a few all play nice together. Other programs I use for cleaning are JRT, AdwareCleaner, RogueKiller -- You can get them from bleepingcomputer.com (www.bleepingcomputer.com) links at bottom of that page as well. use the download from Bleeping computer. Theres a few others that I use for cleaning but not really needed if the computer is not badly infected. General cleaning with Ccleaner keeps things clear as well, + speeds up scanning as no point in scanning junk files. See it all to often Trend causing various problems, and can slow some computers down. When it breaks its the ultimate antivirus --- Why you may ask ;) it kills the internet so you cant go anywhere to get infections :D Nothing is perfect, but some programs have a bigger performance hit on lower spec PC's. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1374907 | 2014-05-13 11:17:00 | Thanks for your reply's I see 360 internet security is 230mb compared to eset nod at 60 mb I used to use eset before I had to use Trend Micro and was happy with it so might delete Trend and download Eset and run that Cheers Peter |
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