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| | I have always bought my AV believing the big bucks CD's (no downloading) were the best. WRONG!..For years this was my belief and I too, loved Symantec Norton System Works "back when" it was considered lightweight. I have ALWAYS had the best you could buy (and still do) protection, antispyware, plenty of memory, big hard drive, loads of Free Space, you-name-it, plus Windows updates (Win XP) and treated my machine like a queen. ...Then Norton System Works 2006 came along & I was all set for a new love affair with it. I knew how to work this thing in my sleep but from the boxed version I couldn't see how "bloated" it had become - things I just don't care about & you can't disable some things and still keep what you want. It slowed my machine to a crawl. I would uninstall & reinstall and if I put down everything here as I documented for Symantec (a useless gesture), we would be here all day. It finally crashed my PC right before my eyes. I mean kaput; reformat - which no one wants to do! So, bought latest Trend Micro PC-cillin from a well-known electronics store. It was beautiful and I loved it and still would, except for one thing... After one month, it began eating up my hard drive space by leaps and bounds; ie, it literally began growing on my hard drive (a top brand product can do that & not be any fault of your computer - it isn't common, mabe even rare). Bottom line, TM PC-cillin wanted ME to fix it from their lengthy & complicated instructions! I refused. Before they sent me, via email, a free newer version to download (normally, you opt for newest v. from the CD), I was having so much trouble & "red tape" just trying to get a response, I wouldn't touch it. MEANTIME, I did the unthinkable and panicking for an AntiVirus settled on the FREE AVAST FOR WINDOWS XP. It is wonderful!! SO, AVAST, IT IS. I've had it long enough to feel free at last!...and I thanked them profusely. (The best to all of you whatever AV you use). cybergal (Helen)
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| I have used all sorts of anti-virus Programmes (All Orignal):-
1. Avast.
2. eTrust Internet Security. (Its not that helpful)
3. Bit Defender 9 Internet Security. (Excellent but useless because it does not detects all kinds viruses and trojans.
4. Norton Internet Security (Excellent Service but takes too much of RAM and is really slow)
5. Trend Micro PC-Cillin (This is not that user-friendly)
6. McAffee Security Suite 2006(Irritates me by always updating and stealing most of mine connection Speed.
7. AVG (Didnt Detect all kinds of trojans or viruses)
8. NOD32 (Takes too much RAM)
9. Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0
Now From these I found KASPERSKY INTERNET SECURITY 6.0 the best.
This is the perfect anti-virus security I have ever used because I have not even faced 1 problem with Kaspersky even though I do many non-sense things on the computer.
Now, I suggest you'll to only buy one antivirus that is Kaspersky and you'll be satsified !!
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| | NOD32 w/o a doubt. Fast, great detection. Biggest downfall for me is the speed of the scans, but they detect nearly everything, I reccomend it to everyone. |
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| I'm a beta tester for Kaspersky Labs in their forums, and I also support Kaspersky all the way...NOD32 is okay...similar to Kaspersky, but their updates are nothing compared to Kaspersky. The only downside to KIS now is it uses too much resources on your PC. Lucky for me that I have 4GB of RAM in my rig
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| I have been using AVG for sometime and havent had any problems with it.
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| | AVG is a good program but a word of caution in regards to it detecting Flooder.Ake which began to appear in December 2006. If detected, an alert pops up with "threat found, Trojan horse, heal now". Clicking the alert quarantines a critical system file, which after reboot can result in serious problems to your computer. The Flooder.Ake threat only seems to be impacting WIN XP/2000 users with AVG anti-virus. This issue is caused by a bug which gives a false detection of winlogon.exe. If the winlogon.exe file is moved or deleted by AVG and then the computer is restarted, it may get stuck in an infinite loop trying to reboot. Click "Ignore" if you receive this alert. If you already have quarantined these files, then restore them right away. Winlogon.exe is a critical system file. If you delete that file you will not be able to logon into Windows after rebooting.
Quoting Radek Janata - Grisoft Team Unfortunately, this issue is caused by the false detection on particular version of "winlogon.exe" file. The false detection has been immediately fixed, however several users may have updated their AVG to this virus update containing this false definition. In order to solve this unpleasant issue, please proceed as follows:
http://forum.grisoft.cz/freeforum/read.php?4,84947,backpage=,sv=
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| Cheers for that, nice one.
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| | Which ones are free? I just need a simple, free anti-virus that doesn't take up too much resources. |
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