Any Good Anti Virus?
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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....
- designbot0
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.
- boobs0
Get a Mac
- there's always one...
;)Jaline - Gah you beat me to it...omgitsacamera
- but its truedrgs
- give it time and it wont beMachuse
- Nearly 2 hours for this comment to appear?!?! Pitifullocustsloth
- 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 thatvisualplane_
- no, 5 years ago where a lot better.. now mac has fallen a bit in terms of quality.. not sure where pc standsMeeklo
- booo pc - YAY MACChazolta
- there's always one...
- visualplane_0
I just wasted over 8 hours of my life with Norton only ending up uninstalling it.
- MSL0
Avira is pretty lightweight on the system.
- 7point340
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
- jaylarson0
AVIRA looks quite promising via the av-comparatives report.
- designbot0
^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.
- olli1010
I'll second AdAware - it's slightly hyperactive sometimes but essential nonetheless.
- hiatus0
"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??
- Meeklo0
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_6/7no, 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 betterMeeklo
- because mac owners don't maliciously attack other mac owners via softwaredoesnotexist
- visualplane_0
Just went to Staples and they let me exchange Norton for Kaspersky. Hopefully it's a lot faster.
- Meeklo0
"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..