Antivirus recommendations?
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Avast!
Personal edition is free.NAV is the most dreadded AV I've every encountered. It even buggered by DHCP service when I installed it. I was good, about a decade ago.
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Avast + Superantispyware + Glary Utilities = SAFE COMPUTER for free
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Eset Smart Security (has NOD 32 built in, but with firewall and wotnot else).
I heard that Norton 360 isn't so system intensive as the past products were, I never got around to test it though - went straight for Eset Smart Security.
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Another vote here for Avast! I've used this for a while now and haven't got any viruses (at least as far as I know!)
A while ago Comodo was recommended to me, although I'm yet to try it myself, but may be worth a look.
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How about checking it out for yourself?
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Julian, I think that site is a dummy site (not sure what the tech term is) i.e. doesn't actually contain any information- it just links from Google AV searches to AV sites (presumably for an advertising fee) and their forums had zero replies. Thanks in any case.
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i have been using antivir from avira on many computers for years now, and i can recommend it. it is a german product, they also have an english version. the personal edition is free.
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Thanks everyone! I was just telling my boss the story of these forums yesterday- how @last created the SU forums 6 years ago and how for some strange reason they quickly became populated by the friendliest, most knowledgeable and helpful people out there...
and how after the Google buyout and demise of the orginal forums the majority of members migrated to Coen's SCForums, bringing their wisdom and spirit of goodwill with them. I can't think of any other forum where I can post almost ANY question and get at least a couple of intelligent answers... and sometimes a riotous debate!
BTW, after all your excellent advice I have plumped for Microsoft Defender cos a) it's my favourite price
b) I figure (perhaps naively) that unlike Norton et al, it's actually in MS's best interest to keep my PC virus free rather than Norton's little trick of letting a trojan through once a year so I get scared into upgrading my annual AV subscription! c) the UI is a no brainer and since uninstalling NAV yesterday my system start-up time is 10 times faster and Windows Explorer and prog startup times must be twice as fast. So long Norton!Cheers,
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personally i cringe at your choice, windows defender has a bad record. There are plenty of other free AV programs out there, a lot of them better than windows defender.
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@remus said:
personally i cringe at your choice, windows defender has a bad record.
What's your source? None of the AV comparison sites I've found have listed MS Defender. -
doen a quick search, and first of, its anti spyware, not anti virus, so thats why you wouldnt have found it on any of the comparison sites.
sources:
http://www.adwarereport.com/mt/archives/000091.html
http://www.download.com/Microsoft-Windows-Defender/3000-12771_4-10353597.html
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1926597,00.aspadmittedly, it doesnt get as bad reviews as i had previously suspected, but its certainly not the cream of the crop.
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