Author Topic: What is a good Viruse protection? (Read 8044 times)

KrAzYcomputer · « **on:** August 05, 2009, 04:20:17 PM »

I just want to hear what you all have to say ?

harry 48 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 05, 2009, 04:21:36 PM »

avira antivir personal free

Helpmeh · « **Reply #2 on:** August 05, 2009, 04:29:33 PM »

I suggest staying away from Norton (personal experience: very slow and resource greedy).

harry 48 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 05, 2009, 04:34:29 PM »

helpmeh a friend of mine had norton and i gave him a prog ; to clean it out but he gets a pop-up saying a file is missing , any more clean out for it

2x3i5x · « **Reply #4 on:** August 05, 2009, 05:39:53 PM »

Avast free is my personal choice, it's nice. Just have to remember to grab the key once a year but that's easy and no big deal.

Helpmeh · « **Reply #5 on:** August 05, 2009, 07:15:45 PM »

Quote from: harry 48 on August 05, 2009, 04:34:29 PM

helpmeh a friend of mine had norton and i gave him a prog ; to clean it out but he gets a pop-up saying a file is missing , any more clean out for it

You mean a removal program? Evil gave me a link for the symantec site. It worked well. If you have a file missing for the AV and you want to use it still, then you could do a repair install with the norton disk or download from the website.

harry 48 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 06, 2009, 05:31:42 AM »

no it was a removeal prog but it must have left something behind that is bringing the popup

compfreak · « **Reply #7 on:** August 06, 2009, 08:48:02 AM »

Quote from: 2x3i5x on August 05, 2009, 05:39:53 PM

Avast free is my personal choice, it's nice. Just have to remember to grab the key once a year but that's easy and no big deal.

+1
Avast and no more Viruses!

computeruler · « **Reply #8 on:** August 06, 2009, 10:58:20 AM »

+2
avast is the bestestest in the whole world

Caramelo · « **Reply #9 on:** August 06, 2009, 11:02:33 AM »

No AVG fans?

2x3i5x · « **Reply #10 on:** August 06, 2009, 11:05:25 AM »

Avast has a better detection rate in a slimmer, sexier package so I am forced to show AVG the door

kpac · « **Reply #11 on:** August 06, 2009, 11:51:49 AM »

Quote from: 2x3i5x on August 06, 2009, 11:05:25 AM

Avast has a better detection rate in a slimmer, sexier package so I am forced to show AVG the door

Otherwise it would be a threesome...

604action · « **Reply #12 on:** August 06, 2009, 12:50:03 PM »

harry 48 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 06, 2009, 12:59:00 PM »

http://www.filehippo.com/download_avg_antivirus/

it's not great

kpac · « **Reply #14 on:** August 06, 2009, 01:00:51 PM »

Harry, I'd remove that link if I were you.

Don't you use WOT?
http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/2009-version.info

harry 48 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 06, 2009, 01:06:58 PM »

link removed , what was wrong with it , i took wot out

Quantos · « **Reply #16 on:** August 07, 2009, 09:09:55 PM »

I prefer Avast.

Caramelo · « **Reply #17 on:** August 08, 2009, 09:44:28 AM »

I'll have to give it a try. Has anyone had trouble getting AVG completely off their pc?

Karnac · « **Reply #18 on:** August 08, 2009, 11:03:30 AM »

Here's the AVG removal tool.

http://www.avg.com/download-tools

Buzzintx · « **Reply #19 on:** August 08, 2009, 02:07:59 PM »

Avast here also....

Caramelo · « **Reply #20 on:** August 08, 2009, 05:59:29 PM »

Thanks Karnac.

camerongray · « **Reply #21 on:** August 09, 2009, 05:46:17 AM »

On my main PC I use Kaspersky Internet Security and Avast Home on all the others.

Cameron Gray

supermonkey · « **Reply #22 on:** August 12, 2009, 04:26:58 AM »

Quote from: camerongray on August 09, 2009, 05:46:17 AM

On my main PC I use Kaspersky Internet Security and Avast Home on all the others.

Cameron Gray

I wonder if you could advise me then - have used avg in the past, but prefer Avast. I had pondered trying Avira but not tried it yet. My bank are offering Kaspersky (AV only) for free so I wondered whether you felt it was better, faster & less resource hungry?

cheers

harry 48 · « **Reply #23 on:** August 12, 2009, 12:53:12 PM »

i have tried avg , macafee , norton and have kept with avira

2x3i5x · « **Reply #24 on:** August 12, 2009, 01:35:31 PM »

I would say, if you have one antivirus software that you like and it is doing well and updates at least once every 24 hours and has realtime protection, then just stay with it.

Kaspersky is a good AV as well, but considering it's free, I'd still go with Avast because it has the antimalware/antispyware components that the free version of Kaspersky offered by your bank does not include. You'd have to pay for a subscription to get all the other stuff.

supermonkey · « **Reply #25 on:** August 14, 2009, 10:26:26 AM »

thanks for that...

the version of kaspersky offered is http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/kaspersky_internet_security which i believe does include antimalware / antispyware.

avast is ok, but sometimes I feel it is slow. Since the suite offered by my bank includes a firewall too I wonder if my system may be improved (no longer run avast & zone alarm).

2x3i5x · « **Reply #26 on:** August 14, 2009, 10:51:21 AM »

yeah but however, is your bank offering the KAV for life? You'll have to pay for a subscription/key when it expires if you want to continue using it after it expires.

supermonkey · « **Reply #27 on:** August 17, 2009, 02:14:19 PM »

well they've renewed it the last few years, but i guess i will cross that bridge when i come to it

smeezekitty · « **Reply #28 on:** August 17, 2009, 02:23:44 PM »

Quote from: Helpmeh on August 05, 2009, 04:29:33 PM

I suggest staying away from Norton (personal experience: very slow and resource greedy).

i agree with that
norton takes processing power
and sometimes not even idle power too

Helper4789 · « **Reply #29 on:** August 19, 2009, 06:40:55 AM »

McAfee.. However it slows down your computer if you don't have the correct mimimum requirements... AVG is the 2nd best.

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Author Topic: What is a good Viruse protection? (Read 8044 times)

KrAzYcomputer

harry 48

Helpmeh

harry 48

2x3i5x

Helpmeh

harry 48

compfreak

computeruler

Caramelo

2x3i5x

kpac

604action

harry 48

kpac

harry 48

Quantos

Caramelo

Karnac

Buzzintx

Caramelo

camerongray

supermonkey

harry 48

2x3i5x

supermonkey

2x3i5x

supermonkey

smeezekitty

Helper4789