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| Thread ID: 62268 | 2005-10-02 06:18:00 | AVG Antivirus reliable? | zahmad (8963) | Press F1 |
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| 392845 | 2005-10-03 07:47:00 | Thanks for that confirmation Murray. Will do as you say and stick with it. :) For some reason, Nortons reminds of the old Jethro Tull song, Thick As A Brick. Go figure!! |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 392846 | 2005-10-03 22:50:00 | Thanks, so AVG is a better Antivirus than Norton? Just making sure. :confused: | zahmad (8963) | ||
| 392847 | 2005-10-03 22:53:00 | Thanks, so AVG is a better Antivirus than Norton? Just making sure. :confused: yes |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 392848 | 2005-10-03 22:54:00 | its free it's less resource hungry and it finds stuff that norton misses........make you own judgement....... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 392849 | 2005-10-03 22:57:00 | Thanks, I'll make the change right awat! | zahmad (8963) | ||
| 392850 | 2005-10-03 23:42:00 | NOD32 is great. For the past year i have been using NOD32 on my main machine and Nortons on the other to see which works best. Nortons has slowed my other machine lots and it is always missing viruses that NOD32 catches without fail. IMHO nortons is an expensive waste of money, time, effort, security and performance. :D | Odin (227) | ||
| 392851 | 2005-10-04 00:18:00 | IN my own personal experience, as well as fixing others computers... I would say that Nortons is highly overrated, and in fact quite a few viruses will shut Nortons down rendering it useless (not to say the same doesn't happen with others, it just seems to happen more with Nortons) AVG is quite good for a free AV, if you ever look buying an AV I will put in a bid for BitDefender Pro (7 was excellent, although 8 seems to have gone downhill a bit), or Kaspersky Pro |
Myth (110) | ||
| 392852 | 2005-10-04 00:32:00 | Norton Antivirus was lucky to find itself in the position of "default" anti-virus software a while back, in much the same way as Internet Explorer landed the job of web browser, Office as the office suite and Outlook Express as an email client. Often people don't realise there are better (even free) alternatives. I'd definitely recommend Avast (www.avast.com), or NOD32 (http:) for a paid option. AVG seems to have a good following too, there seems little between Avast and AVG - maybe worth checking them both out? |
MyHost (8982) | ||
| 392853 | 2005-10-04 02:39:00 | I'm actually on the other side- I use Norton AV on all 3 of my computers and it's fine (No noticable slowdown on a 233/32mb 98se box, or any others). Granted it's on older version (Corporate 7.6) and dosen't have any "bloat", but it still is better than nothing | Edward (31) | ||
| 392854 | 2005-10-04 02:41:00 | you could swap over to linux and be free for viruses for a while, wont be too long until there are some serious viruses present in linux.... | Prescott (11) | ||
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