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Naraku_Diabolos on 22 April 2008

I had McAfee for 2 years, but I recently, of last weekend (not this past one) had obtained a trojan and some viruses some way. McAfee was unable to detect the viruses, but got the trojan and 'did not' remove/quarantine it. I used Microsoft's OneCare website to do free scanning, and it removed the trojan, but it also picked up some things that McAfee missed. McAfee was expensive, around $70 a year to use. I uninstalled it and bought OneCare after it removed some of the bugs McAfee didn't pick up, which was $50. I feel that OneCare from Microsoft has been working much better than McAfee. It has tuned up my PC more than McAfee did for some reason.

I had Ad-Aware but had to uninstall it for OneCare, but I still have Spy-bot.



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Skeeuk on 22 April 2008

ive used AVG anti viris free edition, does the job perfectly ive been using it for years, all virus updates and email scanning etc are free



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Ares on 22 April 2008

UBUNTU...

ok, for windows computers, I think just keep it updated, with firefox+noscript and use AVG is enought.



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ItsaMii on 22 April 2008

I like Kaspersky for antivirus. It detected a shitload of threats and malware that my old Norton ignored.



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BenKenobi88 on 22 April 2008

I don't have any antivirus on XP currently...they all ate up too many resources, and AVG gave me problems with Steam.

Maybe I'll go back to AVG if the Steam problems are fixed...I don't really care though, I browse safely with Firefox.



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FreeTalkLive on 22 April 2008
Ares said:
UBUNTU...

ok, for windows computers, I think just keep it updated, with firefox+noscript and use AVG is enought.
Seems great to me, I also use ad block plus, though.

 



 

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Mummelmann on 22 April 2008

Kaspersky is safe as Alcatraz, I recommend it. It also largely stays out of your day to day routines (unlike Norton 'cough') and doesn't steal all the system memory when scanning or starting/maintaining a process.
Go for it.

PS: Stay away from Avast, its a little fuzzy on the edges in my experiences and gives shoddy protection.



XGamer0611 on 22 April 2008

Download Spyware Blaster. It's free and since I found it searching the net a few years ago. None of my machines have gotten spyware. As for antivirus I use Antivir. downloadable for free from http://www.free-av.com



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pichu_pichu on 22 April 2008

I have Norton360, don't know if its the best, but i've been using it for 4 months and never had a problem with a virus



Sqrl on 22 April 2008
BenKenobi88 said:
I don't have any antivirus on XP currently...they all ate up too many resources, and AVG gave me problems with Steam.

Maybe I'll go back to AVG if the Steam problems are fixed...I don't really care though, I browse safely with Firefox.

I use AVG Free and I have no problems with steam.  Thats odd.



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