I currently have been using McAfee but its such a resource hog. Any suggestions of a good anti virus software that isnt such a resource hog. Dont mind paying retail, but this McAfee thing is getting on my nerves
Thanks in advance guys!
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| Author: | ResplendentRegina [ Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:29 pm ] |
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I currently have been using McAfee but its such a resource hog. Any suggestions of a good anti virus software that isnt such a resource hog. Dont mind paying retail, but this McAfee thing is getting on my nerves
Thanks in advance guys! |
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| Author: | Laker [ Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:47 am ] |
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Getting on my nerves also.
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| Author: | Aku [ Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:52 am ] |
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Stay away from CA.
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| Author: | BPM [ Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:06 pm ] |
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I use the AVAST anti-virus. Haven't have any problems with them. |
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| Author: | ResplendentRegina [ Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:40 pm ] |
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Aku wrote: Stay away from CA. Yeah Ive heard some mixed things about them BPM wrote: I use the AVAST anti-virus. Haven't have any problems with them.
I used to use AVAST years ago but when I purchased Norton (at the time) it detected things AVAST didnt. And Once Norton fixed the little bugs my computer ran more smoothly than before. Never again would I use a free antivirus program. I may go with Norton but just wanted other alternatives. But do appreciate any suggestions guys 
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| Author: | fordloco [ Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:51 pm ] |
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I went back to the old tried and true Norton. It never let me down or let anything happen. Tried McAfee a couple months ago when my Norton expired thinking I would get more and better protection. Ha, what a joke, better protection because everything slowed down so bad the hackers gave up.  So I exercised my 30 refund policy which BTW, they were very happy to oblige to.
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| Author: | HSF [ Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:26 am ] |
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Although I am not a peecee user, one piece of advice I have heard is not to use the big names like Norton or McAfee, since those are the programs that hackers always try to bypass. Virus software from a smaller company might detect the stuff that's designed to bypass the big players. |
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| Author: | ncort62 [ Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:18 am ] |
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AVG free addition is probably the best free software out there. Here is a great website to download it from: www.filehippo.com. I have 4 PC's and a laptop and haven't got a virus in years. There is also a ton of other software on this site. Enjoy! |
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| Author: | Kevin77 [ Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:43 am ] |
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I've used Avast with no problems. You can avoid a lot viruses by simply using Firefox instead of IE.
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| Author: | ResplendentRegina [ Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:01 pm ] |
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hmmm might need to look into the firefox thing. I dont have any problems with viruses, just want an alternative due to the resource hog I have now. Ive heard good things about firefox. Are there any cons to using it say for someone switching from IE? Anything I might need to get used to? Any certain sites that may not work with firefox, things like that. From what I remember with AVAST (which was a while ago) seemed like the program interface looked kind of like some wierd media player thing. Is that the same program I am thinking of? I also couldnt get the hang of using it. Seems like it was always scanning all the time. And it seems like when I could finally afford norton that it did find some things that AVAST didnt. |
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| Author: | JacqueFan [ Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:26 pm ] |
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ResplendentRegina wrote: Anything I might need to get used to? Any certain sites that may not work with firefox, things like that.
. ya it being better than IE 
I havent had any problems with sites not working with Firefox I also use Avast |
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| Author: | jim911 [ Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:17 pm ] |
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I know it is advice that no one wants to hear, but I'll give my usual spiel here: for the most part, *all* of those AV products are basically snake oil. They do very very little in terms of giving you any more security than XP or Vista already has built in [and for that tiny bit of additional security, you often pay a lot, they cause all sorts of system problems [some progs won't install, some won't uninstall, system slowdowns, system crashes, sometimes the whole system won't shut down, etc], and still malware can [and does] just waltz right around them. Before you mess with any of that stuff, you'd be in much better shape to just use XP [or vista] as it was designed to be run: do all of your work out of a limited/nonprivileged account. Only run in an administrator account when you're *actually*administering* the system [and then, you should be on full alert to be extra careful!]. You can even do fancier things to further [automatically let XP] protect your system, but just "running limited" *already* gets you in much better shape than messing with that AV stuff could ever do. XP is a wonderful, secure system and letting XP/Vista work *for* you and then seasoning it with a little bit a of a clue and you'll do just fine without all of that AV mumbo jumbo. |
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