Any Good Anti Virus? 1515 Responses

Last post: 4 months, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: Jul 15, 08, 6:41 p.m.

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• visualplane_

  I just installed Norton 360, and now outlook, gtalk, trillian and firefox won't work. I tried launching Norton, and nothing happens....

  Jul 15, 08, 6:41 p.m. – Permalink

• poolio

  www.eset.com

  • +1 or Kaspersky– jaylarson1/2

    eset's the way to go– pencilpants2/2

  

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  Dog-earJul 15, 08, 6:59 p.m. – Permalink

• designbot

  Kasperky is really good, and lightweight.

  PcCillin is also good and lightweight. Stay away from Mcafee and Norton. They are major resource hogs. Also unless you feel you absolutely need one, stay away from the "Internet Security" packages.

  • Kaspersky +1– BannedKappa

  

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  Dog-earJul 15, 08, 7:05 p.m. – Permalink

• boobs

  Get a Mac

  • there's always one...
    
    ;)– Jaline1/8

    Gah you beat me to it...– omgitsacamera2/8

    but its true– drgs3/8

    give it time and it wont be– Machuse4/8

    Nearly 2 hours for this comment to appear?!?! Pitiful– locustsloth5/8

    Are macs better than pc now? I remember 5 years ago how they were slower than pc's. Yeah, i'm out of the loop on that– visualplane_6/8

    no, 5 years ago where a lot better.. now mac has fallen a bit in terms of quality.. not sure where pc stands– Meeklo7/8

    booo pc - YAY MAC– Chazolta8/8

  

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  Dog-earJul 15, 08, 8:22 p.m. – Permalink

• visualplane_

  I just wasted over 8 hours of my life with Norton only ending up uninstalling it.

  

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  Dog-earJul 16, 08, 8:23 a.m. – Permalink

• MSL

  Avira is pretty lightweight on the system.

  

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  Dog-earJul 16, 08, 8:23 a.m. – Permalink

• flashbender

  http://www.av-comparatives.org/

  • http://www.av-compar…– jaylarson

  

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  Dog-earJul 16, 08, 8:26 a.m. – Permalink

• 7point34

  i use AVG and have no issues. they just released 8.0

  also use superanti-spyware, spybot: search and destroy, and ad-aware.

  all of those are free and have nominal fees to upgrade to more features

  • I use it too and its very good! Stay away from Norton– PSYKHO1/2

    yeh i use it too, stay away from norton if you actually want to use your machine
    – Huebert2/2

  

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  Dog-earJul 16, 08, 8:27 a.m. – Permalink

• jaylarson

  AVIRA looks quite promising via the av-comparatives report.

  

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  Dog-earJul 16, 08, 8:37 a.m. – Permalink

• 000000

  get avg free
  + zone alarm
  +spybot

  this is the winning combination

  • spybot is very good. super anti-spyware in safe mode, for anything nasty– 7point34

  

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  Dog-earJul 16, 08, 8:39 a.m. – Permalink

• designbot

  ^Zone Alarm can lead to some major issues unless you know how to configure it, seen it cause major issues for people without much experience. Also AVG is decent for a free antivirus software, but can't compete with the big boys imo.

  Not to be a hater, just my opinion.

  

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  Dog-earJul 16, 08, 8:55 a.m. – Permalink

• olli101

  I'll second AdAware - it's slightly hyperactive sometimes but essential nonetheless.

  http://lavasoft.com/products/ad_…

  

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  Dog-earJul 16, 08, 9:15 a.m. – Permalink

• hiatus

  "Are macs better than pc now? I remember 5 years ago how they were slower than pc's. Yeah, i'm out of the loop on that– visualplane"

  what do you guys think??

  

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  Dog-earJul 16, 08, 9:18 a.m. – Permalink

• Meeklo

  Are macs better than pc now? I remember 5 years ago how they were slower than pc's. Yeah, i'm out of the loop on that
  – visualplane_6/7

  no, 5 years ago where a lot better (than pcs and current macs).. now mac has fallen a bit in terms of quality.. not sure where pc stands

  • but when it comes to virus.. mac has always been better– Meeklo1/2

    because mac owners don't maliciously attack other mac owners via software– doesnotexist2/2

  

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  Dog-earJul 16, 08, 9:19 a.m. – Permalink

• visualplane_

  Just went to Staples and they let me exchange Norton for Kaspersky. Hopefully it's a lot faster.

  

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  Dog-earJul 16, 08, 10 a.m. – Permalink

• Meeklo

  "because mac owners don't maliciously attack other mac owners via software"

  you know what? I don't think is other users that attack each other..
  its mc fee employees that attack other computers so that they can sell you the cure..

  

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  Dog-earJul 16, 08, 10:04 a.m. – Permalink