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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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1374908	2014-05-13 11:23:00	Dont download ANYTHING from cnet or download.com. They were known to repack whatever and install their own crap into the installs. Which included malware	Speedy Gonzales (78)
1374909	2014-05-13 11:42:00	Thanks I will remember that Not that I down load that many programs but I am setting this Vista comp up for my own use not work so I can do what I like with it I use cc cleaner often to keep it clean Cheers Peter	petemit (1134)
1374910	2014-05-13 12:06:00	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? No, I never installed myself - it's my friends' computers. You'll find that 80% of those computers with Chinese OS have 360 installed as it's 'bundled' with 'QQ' and other free software. You'll also find that those PCs badly infected PCs have 360 installed, too. LOL	bk T (215)
1374911	2014-05-13 20:47:00	No, I never installed myself - it's my friends' computers. You'll find that 80% of those computers with Chinese OS have 360 installed as it's 'bundled' with 'QQ' and other free software. You'll also find that those PCs badly infected PCs have 360 installed, too. LOL Never struck that. There have been some people who have had that free one installed and then decided to upgrade to Nod32, and guess what was found - NOTHING apart from a few cookies. Often you'll find other free software gets installed from many places, one real COMMON one is Adobes flash install, it alwasy installs mcAfee security scan if you download it from Adobe and dont untick the box first, as well as what Speedy said from download.com etc I did a indepth test on that 360 before I put it on anyones computer on a fresh install, nothing extra was added. There have only been one or two that I installed it on and it went nuts finding infections that were missed by the likes of AVG MSE and Avast etc.Its only used as a last resort as normally I would use Nod32. ANY software you HAVE to look at what you are putting in, not just go next next and accept the defaults like many people do.	wainuitech (129)
1374912	2014-05-13 22:28:00	Avast Free runs OK on descent XP PC's IF you do a custom install & untick everything except email & file scanning. Nod AV also runs pretty well on older PC's In general, avoid the all singing, all dancing internet security suites I see Symantec is now getting out of the consumer AV business. That 2 of the worst going or gone (Norton & McAfee). What crudware will fill that that vacuum :)	1101 (13337)
1374913	2014-05-13 23:13:00	A very interesting topic and as a user of Win 8.1.1, would it be best to use 360 Internet Security on it instead of Defender which is built in? (we were told that Win 8 did not need any other AV on it). WT, I would appreciate your thoughts on this. LL :-)	lakewoodlady (103)
1374914	2014-05-13 23:17:00	Re qihoo 360 : would you really trust this company enough to install their products. May all be false or unfounded accusations, but .... www.techinasia.com www.techinasia.com www.ibtimes.com	1101 (13337)
1374915	2014-05-13 23:48:00	Not sure I would trust any security software coming from China... probably full of government backdoors. Then again probably Windows is too, so maybe you should just get Linux. Though maybe someone managed to sneak some in there too, so you might as well just build your own OS from scratch.	Agent_24 (57)
1374916	2014-05-13 23:56:00	Not sure I would trust any security software coming from China... probably full of government backdoors. Then again probably Windows is too, so maybe you should just get Linux. Though maybe someone managed to sneak some in there too, so you might as well just build your own OS from scratch. China is nothing compare to USA -- the US is the big brother in this particular area!	bk T (215)
1374917	2014-05-14 00:01:00	I wouldn't trust either of them.	Agent_24 (57)
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