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mrducky
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Post subject: good, free antivirus software Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 7:24 am |
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alright, my comp started with symantec protection. i hate it. sometimes when its need to scan even incoming packet means my comp gets 10% of its memory drained when what im doing is basically just going on facebook.
its also pretty stupid and un user friendly, for example, i tell it to stop. let a safe word document from a friend through, it starts screaming and sets the computer on fire.
so i plan on uninstalling it because its... well crap.
i run it side by side with avast, which does everything symantec does, but better, more efficient, less sirens and attacking me.
im looking for a new antivirus software that one of you guys say is pretty good, does the job, isnt a pain in the lower gastrointestinal tract. i dont trust the optimistic reviews i read somewhere, i want some real human feedback and opinions about their anti virus.
and yes, when i use free anti virus software, i get 2 of them at the same time. paranoia helps sometimes.
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Alexander
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Post subject: Re: good, free antivirus software Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 9:21 am |
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Joined: Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:41 am Posts: 4629 Location: The Netherlands Gender: male
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- Ad-Aware anti Spyware. Great free anti spyware/trojan software. - F-Prot for Dos (srsly, it's cool =) I use full version though.) - MalwareBytes Anti-Malware This one does MIRACLES, I tell you. It doesn't protect you, but it removes malware. The ones that can kill your computer. F-Prot, Kaspersky and Norton (had em all, I am VERY paranoid) failed to kill a virus which disabled most of my applications, removed a few of em per day and made my PC go very, verrryyyy slow. (5% of usual speed or so...).
Malwarebytes killed it, ate it, played with it and then used it to please itself (sexually).
Seriously, use it =)
I run MalwareBytes, Ad-Aware and F-Prot here now. I am going to remove Ad-Aware, F-Prot is razorfast and deals with 99% of the problems. I got the beast for the big kapows ^^
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Numair Mujeeb
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Post subject: Re: good, free antivirus software Posted: Mon Dec 07, 2009 10:19 am |
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Joined: Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:22 am Posts: 3857 Location: Spam Section Gender: male
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I usually use AVG anti virus software. It has that search so when you search something it scans for a virus first. It will say a check sign or a cross sign to say if it has a virus before you access it. Yeah, think this one deals with the problem 99% as well.
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Sylis
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Post subject: Re: good, free antivirus software Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 10:56 pm |
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Joined: Fri Jun 12, 2009 1:36 pm Posts: 127 Gender: male
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I recently did a full system reset, and installed Norton 2010. That was almost 2 weeks ago, I logged on today and my internet is running SUUUUUUUUPER slow. I did multiple scans and got nothing but tracking cookies. My internet wasnt lightening fast before, my house is too old to support super fast internet, but I was doing around 500-1000 kbs. I just did a test and im at 10 kbs. It took 1 minute to download 1MB of data. Im really angry now, I finally get my computer fixed and running and now i cant even stream videos. I checked online for solutions and such and it wasnt very helpful. Im praying the............enlightened minds of the BD community will be able to assist me. UPDATE: I use http://speedtest.netspace.net.au to check how fast its running, its spiking, not taking 1m for a 1mb now, but when I do the 10mb dl, i noticed that the speed starts at 100 kbs, and drops down to 20 kbs throughout the dl, any solutions?
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Alexander
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Post subject: Re: good, free antivirus software Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 5:12 am |
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Joined: Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:41 am Posts: 4629 Location: The Netherlands Gender: male
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Sylis wrote: I recently did a full system reset, and installed Norton 2010. That was almost 2 weeks ago, I logged on today and my internet is running SUUUUUUUUPER slow. I did multiple scans and got nothing but tracking cookies. My internet wasnt lightening fast before, my house is too old to support super fast internet, but I was doing around 500-1000 kbs. I just did a test and im at 10 kbs. It took 1 minute to download 1MB of data. Im really angry now, I finally get my computer fixed and running and now i cant even stream videos. I checked online for solutions and such and it wasnt very helpful. Im praying the............enlightened minds of the BD community will be able to assist me. UPDATE: I use http://speedtest.netspace.net.au to check how fast its running, its spiking, not taking 1m for a 1mb now, but when I do the 10mb dl, i noticed that the speed starts at 100 kbs, and drops down to 20 kbs throughout the dl, any solutions? I personally use a 100 kbps connection. I get like 150 though... Don't ask me why =S Weird provider... Anyhow, de-install Norton. Seriously, it doesn't get worse, slower, whinier and more useless then Norjunk. Get-Rid-Of-It. See my post for suggestions >.> <.< Ad-Aware takes care of Trojans and all that slow down your internet... =\ Tracking Cookies shouldn't be deleted xD
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CrimsonGear
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Post subject: Re: good, free antivirus software Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:31 pm |
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Joined: Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:45 am Posts: 31 Gender: male
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Aside from Avast, i like to use Panda Cloud Antivirus but it is abit different from other anti-virus programs. http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/BTW Jasper, don't get your anti-virus and anti-spyware programs mixed up, they do different things :p.
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Alexander
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Post subject: Re: good, free antivirus software Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:05 am |
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Joined: Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:41 am Posts: 4629 Location: The Netherlands Gender: male
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CrimsonGear wrote: Aside from Avast, i like to use Panda Cloud Antivirus but it is abit different from other anti-virus programs. http://www.cloudantivirus.com/en/BTW Jasper, don't get your anti-virus and anti-spyware programs mixed up, they do different things :p. I know exactly what I am talking about Crimson. And F-Prot takes care of quite some spyware to...
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Steven
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Post subject: Re: good, free antivirus software Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:44 am |
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Norton will, without doubt, eat your processing power and memory. For my windows PC, however, I currently use it, despite this. Reasons being: -It's quick and easy for a PC I don't use very often. -It's actually pretty good at it's job.
However, If I were to use the PC more often, i'd get rid of norton. I've heard good things about AVG and ZoneAlarm (AV and firewall respectively)
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mrducky
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Post subject: Re: good, free antivirus software Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2009 8:55 pm |
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Joined: Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:06 pm Posts: 781 Gender: male
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thank you jasper~~
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