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diego · 10/10/2007 03:50 PM

ok so I need help picking an antivirus. . .

currently Im using NOD32 (since I wanted to try it)
but my brother is such a hershey kisses freak and he gets my PC viruses. . .
so I want a strong anti-virus/. /

I also have kaspersky 7(not yet installed)
and I can get symatec end point.
so suggest away on what is good for me. ..

PS : you can also suggest other anti-viruses

squee666 · 10/10/2007 03:57 PM

avg is meant to be good i had it

no i don't have an anti virus installed

for a virus scanner and killer get Spybot search and destroy

it finds virus's better than any other program and kills them

also its freeware and has customizable skins and is updated almost dayly

4narchyliv3sinm3 · 10/10/2007 04:01 PM

i use spyware terminator. its spyware blocker and anti-virus. its also free ;)

UncertainGod · 10/10/2007 04:57 PM

Avast! has a small footprint, updates often and it's had the best home detection rate for the past 6 months.

Assassinator · 10/10/2007 05:18 PM

AVG is a good free alternative. But compared to some of the commercial ones, the detection rate isn't that great. But unless u try very hard to get new virus', or is a complete idiot, any virus scanner should be fine.

In terms of dectection rate, i heard kasersky is supposed to be one of the best.

For spyware, some good free options are ad-aware and spybot - search and destroy.

squee666 Wrote:avg is meant to be good i had it

People like AVG cause it's free. In terms of detection rates, it's not that good. I use AVG anyways.

Meh, i don't even get viruses. Don't be an idiot on what u download and u can filter out almost all the virus' that will end up on your computer, most virus's are pretty obvious, like 100kb warcraft3.exe files u find on P2P, and are very easy to avoid. But my sister on the other hand... like 1 virus a week lately.

squee666 Wrote:for a virus scanner and killer get Spybot search and destroy

Spybot searches for spyware, not viruses.

squee666 Wrote:it finds virus's better than any other program and kills them

Spybots detection rate is actually quite bad. I use both spybot and ad-aware for anti-spyware. And it's not that un-often that i manage to pick up something with ad-aware that spybot missed.

robertotron · 10/10/2007 11:40 PM

Assassinator Wrote:But my sister on the other hand... like 1 virus a week lately.

haha that's like my sister, until i removed limewire :P

Vegetano1 · 10/10/2007 11:48 PM

Gjee try the symantec Endpoint protection !! works fine for me

I always used norton or symantec and yes these did slow your system down,.
But as it said in a discription,.. "becuae of all complaints slowing down windows symantec finally made there next product alot faster,.." ,.... or something,.

Anyway works fine for me!!

diego · 11/10/2007 01:53 AM

lol I might try but im afraid of getting my PC any slower since I installed Vista. . . and I already use ad-aware for spy ware spoon. . .i might stick to nod till it gives me problems or ill go to kaspersky 7. . . (but seriousely I might try symantec)

Vegetano1 · 11/10/2007 03:37 AM

^^^^works fine for me, works faster then any other norton or symantec tool i used before,.!!

Assassinator · 11/10/2007 03:47 AM

From what i remember back then, Norton products eat up quite a lot of resources.

U know what, i once tried an anti spyware program called spyware doctor before, and found out that it eats up over 200MB of RAM. Killed it imediately. Lol. Rediculous.

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