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General Category => Software => Topic started by: bobloblaw on March 27, 2006, 04:55:01 AM

Title: which virus protection?
Post by: bobloblaw on March 27, 2006, 04:55:01 AM

Norton or mcafee?

Both are free after rebates at my local electronic store!

Title: which virus protection?
Post by: Josetann on March 27, 2006, 05:09:33 AM

Personally I use AVG Free.  It's becoming a bit more popular which can be a bad thing (virus writers will often try to disable your current AV program, and will only target the most popular ones).  It seems to work just as well or better than Norton or Mcafee, and is free for personal or non-profit use.  If you're installing it on a work PC, then you have to pay.

Title: which virus protection?
Post by: bobloblaw on March 27, 2006, 05:10:43 AM

I will definitely check into that.  Thank you!

Title: which virus protection?
Post by: acbella on March 29, 2006, 05:26:22 PM

I use both being norton and AVG. Being for the fact AVG is more like spybot and adware. Not going to relay on that to protect my computers alone.






[quote name=\'######\' post=\'101700\' date=\'Mar 27 2006, 04:09 AM\']Personally I use AVG Free.  It's becoming a bit more popular which can be a bad thing (virus writers will often try to disable your current AV program, and will only target the most popular ones).  It seems to work just as well or better than Norton or Mcafee, and is free for personal or non-profit use.  If you're installing it on a work PC, then you have to pay.[/quote]


[quote name=\'bobloblaw\' post=\'101701\' date=\'Mar 27 2006, 04:10 AM\']I will definitely check into that.  Thank you![/quote]

Title: which virus protection?
Post by: bobloblaw on March 29, 2006, 08:14:22 PM

Ohh, two at once.

Title: which virus protection?
Post by: leonjr1964 on March 29, 2006, 10:30:55 PM

Panda Platinum Internet Security. I get it for less than $20 on Amazon.
Norton is a resource hog, and doesn't stop, or even detect, everything, and it only updates once a week. Panda updates everyday and sometimes more than once a day.
AVG Free is...well....free. Remember: you get what you pay for.

Title: which virus protection?
Post by: Spin on April 02, 2006, 11:08:23 AM

nod32, this is a very good and strong anti virus software.

Title: which virus protection?
Post by: i_and_identity on April 13, 2006, 06:38:20 PM

AVG isn't too bad. Nortons is crap, i would personally use AVG or Pccillian by Trendmicro , but if i had to use norton's or mccafee, i would choose mccafee, nortons is just not worth mucking with.

Title: which virus protection?
Post by: bobloblaw on April 16, 2006, 04:50:47 PM

AVG it is!

Title: which virus protection?
Post by: tmirelle on April 19, 2006, 10:57:14 AM

Hi, I just went to the AVG site, and I don't see a free one... can you advise?

Thanks

[quote name=\'######\' post=\'101700\' date=\'Mar 27 2006, 02:09 AM\']Personally I use AVG Free.  It's becoming a bit more popular which can be a bad thing (virus writers will often try to disable your current AV program, and will only target the most popular ones).  It seems to work just as well or better than Norton or Mcafee, and is free for personal or non-profit use.  If you're installing it on a work PC, then you have to pay.[/quote]

Title: which virus protection?
Post by: Spin on April 19, 2006, 10:55:23 PM

nod32!!!!! leeeeeeet!! have a look

Title: which virus protection?
Post by: frezasaga on April 23, 2006, 07:18:08 AM

norton sucks it make your pc laggggg it eat a lot of memory and space of your HD.......mcafee is good too i use it at least for a year but when i heard NOD32 and study it i found that NOD32 has a lot more powerfull than mcafee so i choose NOD32.......NOD32 ability scan is more powerfull than mcafee............i use NOD32 for a 1 year now it make me happy always.............

about avast is good but if you choose i goo with kaspesky powerfull than avast..............why?

cuz i use both NOD32 and Kaspersky in one pc no laggy even i played online games with high resulotion..........

Title: which virus protection?
Post by: denadi21 on May 07, 2006, 11:35:53 PM

come on its not like that i used mcafee i used nod32  
and right now im using norton im very happy with never got a virus and im downloading 24/7. i hate the activation thing but hey its better than when u update mcafee.

Title: which virus protection?
Post by: Snowzak on May 09, 2006, 03:06:27 PM

mcfee is good

norton anti virus is ok.

GO FOR MCFEE!