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Dione J
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4th Jan 07 at 13:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Following on from my "what pc" thread, whats the best anti-virus programs have you all been using and find very good/usedful?
AdZ9
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ive always used norton, and i've never had problems with viruses at all. Then again i don't click on blatantly dodgy sites either!

2 most used is probablly norton and mcafee i think
John
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4th Jan 07 at 14:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
avg or kaspersky.

Don't go near norton or mcafee.
AdZ9
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4th Jan 07 at 14:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
whyse that? like i said, ive used norton since 2000 and never had any problems/viruses at all
Scotty_B
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4th Jan 07 at 14:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
AVG Pro £18.95 for a year.

AVG Free is no more after 15th Jan.
John
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4th Jan 07 at 14:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I don't use any but my experience of norton and mcafee is they are resource hogs.

Last time I checked what the actual best at stopping viruses was they weren't close either.
AdZ9
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only resource hogs if you have all the checks on, like having it do a quick scan on boot etc, also if you have liveupdate on and have the quick scan turned on it does a quick scan in the bg once its updated, thats the reason people think its resource heavy.

In all fairness, i've never tried another one so im biased, im just saying i've used it for 6 odd years and its always worked for me
abdus
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4th Jan 07 at 14:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
AVG
Melville
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4th Jan 07 at 16:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by CorSRi_BT
AVG Pro £18.95 for a year.

AVG Free is no more after 15th Jan.


You knacker

There is a new version of AVG FREE that superceeds the one that runs out on the 15th. You musn't have read the small print on the site
Bart
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4th Jan 07 at 16:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
go for AVG.
I was using Nod32 which i used to swear by, but ive not been that impressed since i changed to AVG.
abdus
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4th Jan 07 at 19:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
AVG is the best atm
andy1868
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4th Jan 07 at 19:48   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
we always use AVG as standard. if you're planning on upgrading to Vista anytime soon though Windows OneCare is available which takes care of viruses as well as pop-ups and adware etc which means you only need one protection device for everything instead of having a separate one for each hazard
Aaron
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4th Jan 07 at 20:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I've got some Norton AV Software for sale on eBay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=002&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=120068563512&rd=1&rd=1
dave17
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AVG
Voyto
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5th Jan 07 at 09:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Avast!
scott d
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5th Jan 07 at 10:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
panda platnium security
Jules
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5th Jan 07 at 11:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
AVG - used to swear by Norton but it started getting very CPU hungry so ditched it.
I use AVG and Zone Alarm now - both free, both brilliant, both recommended.
Scotty_B
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5th Jan 07 at 13:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Melville
quote:
Originally posted by CorSRi_BT
AVG Pro £18.95 for a year.

AVG Free is no more after 15th Jan.


You knacker

There is a new version of AVG FREE that superceeds the one that runs out on the 15th. You musn't have read the small print on the site


I'll have that then.
Dean_W
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5th Jan 07 at 13:34   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I've never paid for antivirus. I always use AVG for free.
gsimark
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5th Jan 07 at 13:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
mcafee 8 and i have jv16 power tools to kkep registry tidy
Marc
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5th Jan 07 at 14:46   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I find they're all rubbish.
dna23
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5th Jan 07 at 15:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I use BitDefender
amxor
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5th Jan 07 at 20:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
avast or nod32
Russ
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5th Jan 07 at 20:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
f-secure has the highest virus finding out of all of them 98.9% or something stupid
Rich H
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5th Jan 07 at 20:27   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Voyto
Avast!


Prefer this to AVG tbh. Also I use Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware. Seems to do the trick for me anyway

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