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Name: Boogyman
Date: May 8, 2007 at 10:46:44 Pacific
OS: Win Xp Pro
CPU/Ram: E6300 / 1 GB
Product: Myself
Comment:

Im sure you guys get this question a lot, but I was wondering what you guys though. Right now I have NOD32, but I was wondering if anything was better.

Intel E6300 Core 2 Duo
G.Skill 1GB DDR26400
Sapphire Radeon X1900XT
Seagate 320GB HDD
Windows XP Professional



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Response Number 1
Name: Hoss78
Date: May 8, 2007 at 11:07:24 Pacific
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Avast! is very good. I have use it about 3 years and have no complaining about it.

http://www.avast.com/


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Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: May 8, 2007 at 12:07:10 Pacific
Reply:

I prefer Symantec.

Life is more painless for those who are brainless.


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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser4Real
Date: May 8, 2007 at 12:31:36 Pacific
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I'm with the Avast...no muss, no fuss, just great realtime protection and updates that most of the other AV's don't do. No need to schedule boring scans, etc., it is all done in real time while you surf. And did I say FREE?

IMHO and from experience, Norton, Symantec and McAfee are resource hogs that bog down your PC and were packaged in most PC bundles so the consumer thought they had to PAY for an AV after so many months and that they were the best protection for their PC.
Hope that helps


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Response Number 4
Name: Boogyman
Date: May 8, 2007 at 13:25:02 Pacific
Reply:

Yea see im looking for something like that. I do a lot of gaming/editing/recording and I like having a slip-streamed AV.

Intel E6300 Core 2 Duo
G.Skill 1GB DDR26400
Sapphire Radeon X1900XT
Seagate 320GB HDD
Windows XP Professional


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Response Number 5
Name: XpUser4Real
Date: May 8, 2007 at 13:31:33 Pacific
Reply:

If you decide on Avast, let it do a bootscan on reboot so you can see if anything is lurking in your start-up. Whatever it comes up with just move it to the chest. Also, if you had Norton on your PC before Nod, make sure to use the Norton uninstaller from their website to remove all the Norton imbedded files. This will make everything run alot smoother.
Also, Comodo is a real good free Pro Firewall you might also be interested in.
Good Luck

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Response Number 6
Name: soupnasty
Date: May 8, 2007 at 14:02:59 Pacific
Reply:

Stay with Nod32 you will never regret it.


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Response Number 7
Name: Derek
Date: May 8, 2007 at 15:39:06 Pacific
Reply:

Yes it does get asked a lot. Here's what I got by copying your subject line into Go Search at the top of the page:

http://www.computing.net/cgi-bin/AT...

I guess that's what it's there for.

DerekW


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Response Number 8
Name: Boogyman
Date: May 8, 2007 at 16:11:55 Pacific
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Oh wow, I've been on this site for some time and never noticed that :)

Also, I wanted up-to-date opinions because there is new AV's popping up everyday.

Intel E6300 Core 2 Duo
G.Skill 1GB DDR26400
Sapphire Radeon X1900XT
Seagate 320GB HDD
Windows XP Professional


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Response Number 9
Name: Sabertooth
Date: May 9, 2007 at 19:33:41 Pacific
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"Stay with Nod32 you will never regret it."

Sorta what I was thinking too - any user that's currently got NOD32 should have hardly any reason to be shopping for another AV tool except they have a reason (very doubtful) to be dissatisfied with it.

JSYK, NOD32 is ranked up there with AV programs like KAV, AVK, eScan, F-Secure, AVIRA & TrustPort ;-)


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Response Number 10
Name: g-smith
Date: May 11, 2007 at 14:27:42 Pacific
Reply:

What about AVG Antivirus?


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