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| Thread ID: 62268 | 2005-10-02 06:18:00 | AVG Antivirus reliable? | zahmad (8963) | Press F1 |
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| 392855 | 2005-10-04 20:24:00 | I don't trust norton, as it is resource hungry, and when I had it on, my computer got infected and screwed up, although it was Windows ME! | zahmad (8963) | ||
| 392856 | 2005-10-04 20:28:00 | lol that wasn't a virus it was ME itself haha | drcspy (146) | ||
| 392857 | 2005-10-04 21:00:00 | Anyone else? | zahmad (8963) | ||
| 392858 | 2005-10-04 21:41:00 | Free ones.. AVAST or AVG Pay ones.. NOD32 I'm inclined to lean toward Avast, as it has some Anti-spyware functionality as well. |
pheonix (36) | ||
| 392859 | 2005-10-04 21:50:00 | I have been using AVG for a couple of years now. It runs in the background like a good AV should and it updates itself every day. I hardly notice it. Occasionally I run an online scan and have to admit I get quite despondent at finding I have no Trojans, Viruse or any other malicious little nasty in there. I feel left out. | Barnzy (6015) | ||
| 392860 | 2005-10-04 21:54:00 | if your useing win9x/me then i would use AVG over avast. unfortunatly i found avast had a few flaws mainly due to its old school localhost type email scanner and web scanner. mind you the paid AVG pro is not to bad. quite a resonable price to. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 392861 | 2005-10-04 22:03:00 | I have been using AVG for a couple of years now. It runs in the background like a good AV should and it updates itself every day. I hardly notice it. Occasionally I run an online scan and have to admit I get quite despondent at finding I have no Trojans, Viruse or any other malicious little nasty in there. I feel left out. LOL Yes me too. I run AVG, Spybot S&D, AdAware, ZA home, Firefox and CCleaner and I never have any problems. (And I'm not a totally 'responsible ' user.) I look forward to fixing up friends' computers for the exercise. :D |
mark c (247) | ||
| 392862 | 2005-10-04 23:22:00 | 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 I would almost stake my life on it that you haven't given other antiviruses a good run, hence you don't realise how much of a hog Nortons is. Try AVG for a few weeks, then go back to using Norton's, I will be very surprised if you don't notice a substantial difference. Most people that have experienced this end up hating Nortons. I have nothing against the company at all, but there Antivirus is a pig, until you try it yourself you will never realise. |
Battleneter (60) | ||
| 392863 | 2005-10-04 23:42:00 | Hmmm Just fired up a comp that is in because it wont connect to the net. Its an old Compaq, AMD 500mhz cpu,64 mb ram with 8mb allocated to the display. Thanks to a recent trip into DSE its running XP Pro (upgrade) and Nortons 2005, he also wants the office upgrade he purchased installed. How many hundreds wasted on a system that cant run it properly? |
Metla (12) | ||
| 392864 | 2005-10-04 23:51:00 | I run Nod32, Windows SP2 Firewall, and sit behind a NAT router/modem. Once every couple of months I may do a scan with HJT but it has yet to find any nasties. Nod32 is the best, lightest and fastest protection out. Nod32 just stops any badies dead. Generally due to my bad habbits I get bugs come to my computer, not one of them has ever had a chance. I have installed Nod32 to many computers, it will remove virus from restore points and the recycle bin, which I believe no other anti-virus will do. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
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