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Software => Computer viruses and spyware => Topic started by: KrAzYcomputer on August 05, 2009, 04:20:17 PM

Title: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: KrAzYcomputer on August 05, 2009, 04:20:17 PM: I just want to hear what you all have to say ?
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: harry 48 on August 05, 2009, 04:21:36 PM: avira antivir personal free
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: Helpmeh on August 05, 2009, 04:29:33 PM: I suggest staying away from Norton (personal experience: very slow and resource greedy).
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: 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
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: Helpmeh 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.
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: harry 48 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
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: compfreak 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! ;)
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: computeruler on August 06, 2009, 10:58:20 AM: +2
avast is the bestestest in the whole world
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: Caramelo on August 06, 2009, 11:02:33 AM: No AVG fans? :)
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: 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 ;D
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: kpac 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 ;D
Otherwise it would be a threesome... ;D
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: 604action on August 06, 2009, 12:50:03 PM: AVG?
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: harry 48 on August 06, 2009, 12:59:00 PM: http://www.filehippo.com/download_avg_antivirus/

it's not great
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: kpac 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
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: harry 48 on August 06, 2009, 01:06:58 PM: link removed , what was wrong with it , i took wot out
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: Quantos on August 07, 2009, 09:09:55 PM: I prefer Avast.
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: Caramelo 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?
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: Karnac on August 08, 2009, 11:03:30 AM: Here's the AVG removal tool.

http://www.avg.com/download-tools
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Post by: Buzzintx on August 08, 2009, 02:07:59 PM: Avast here also....
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Post by: Caramelo on August 08, 2009, 05:59:29 PM: Thanks Karnac.
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: 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
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: supermonkey 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
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: harry 48 on August 12, 2009, 12:53:12 PM: i have tried avg , macafee , norton and have kept with avira
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: 2x3i5x 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.
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: supermonkey 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 (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).
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: 2x3i5x 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.
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: supermonkey 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
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: smeezekitty 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
Title: Re: What is a good Viruse protection?
Post by: Helper4789 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.