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08-03-2004, 02:11 AM
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Anti Virus other than NORTON
I need some kinda of antivirus other than norton that does a great job of protecting.. Norton just slows me down everytime my comp boots up.... And has only caused me troubles. I heard AVG was good... anyone to back that up?
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08-03-2004, 04:56 AM
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Been using AVG for years with Windows, without any problems what so ever.
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08-03-2004, 07:42 AM
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Another vote for the free version of AVG. Been running it on 3 PC's for over a year without any problems. http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php
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08-03-2004, 09:21 AM
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Nod32, youll never notice its there. www.nod32.com AVG is also good as free software.
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08-03-2004, 11:01 AM
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Great... I think i'll try AVG first
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08-03-2004, 03:21 PM
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Another vote here for AVG. I use AVG free on both of my machines. I've had it on my old machine for the past 3 years and the new machine for almost a year and I have had no problems with it on either system.
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08-03-2004, 03:41 PM
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Definately NOD32 if you can lay down 40 USD for a year's subscription. It's definately worth it and is definately effective and unnoticible. My HP Desktop uses it very nicely. AVG is otherwise a good freeware alternative - typing to you from a computer that has it.
Hope that helps, kram
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08-03-2004, 04:00 PM
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Yeah I am also using NOD32 and it has found all the trojans/viruses on my computer that I know of.
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08-04-2004, 11:31 AM
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Well.. I got AVG... and I ran it... somehow it managed to dig up 11 or so Trojans/Downloaders... Not really sure how they got there, since i just reformatted... So, AVG put them in the "Vault"... But i want them deleted........ Anyone know how to get rid of them ?
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08-04-2004, 12:11 PM
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08-05-2004, 08:31 PM
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I have Norton and free AVG running together with no problems. Avg detected a couple of trojans and not a peep out of Norton.
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08-05-2004, 08:46 PM
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If you want to delete the files from the vault, open up AVG, go to Program > AVG Virus Vault, select the files, and delete them.
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08-06-2004, 02:51 AM
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I use a bunch of them. I think good virus writers are able to fool virus programs, especially the installed programs. GO HERE for a list of freebies.
I use AVG 6 free edition as my installed anti-virus program. It's not perfect, but it does a decent job. I back it with HouseCalls by MicroTrend. There seems to be a couple of viruses that AVG doesn't find that MicroTrend does. I also use RAV and Panda for zipped files. They each have found viruses the other two didn't.
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08-07-2004, 02:49 AM
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ya, its kind of a hassle to start running online virus scanners, etc...
i use AVG and its just perfect, you're gonna have some problems uninstalling NAV (i have.. decided to just reformat and install AVG) and its just great! www.grisoft.com i suggest you just back up what u need and reformat, to get rid of that crappy NAV that just grabs your registry and is really awful anyhow... AVG ALL DA WAY! :-P hope that helped, KoMoDo |
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