Free anti-viruses vs comercial ones
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Name: Quakester
Date: February 16, 2002 at 10:44:46 Pacific
Subject: Free anti-viruses vs comercial ones |
Comment: I found that the are free anti-viruses for windows but I never used then because I prefer to use a comercial one but since some comercial companies have fail in support I got tyred of using them so I want to know is Antivir as good as Norton, Macfee, Panda and PC anywhere antivirus? Oh for got to say I'm using now norton 2002 with my WINXP PC and I'm testing the Antivir personal edition under a emulator. Quakester
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Response Number 1
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Name: Sue
Date: February 16, 2002 at 11:40:08 Pacific
Subject: Free anti-viruses vs comercial ones |
Reply: (edit)I think AVG is as good, I do not like Nortons AVG is Free. Nortons slows everything down and get a lot of freezes, and I think their support stinks, had it for 1 year, got tired of it.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Mark p
Date: February 16, 2002 at 12:26:59 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Same goes for Nortons Utils it has TOO BIG an overhead. I find using smaller individual programs heaps better.
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Response Number 3
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Name: Terri
Date: February 17, 2002 at 08:53:45 Pacific
Subject: Free anti-viruses vs comercial ones |
Reply: (edit)My vote goes to PC_CILLIN. McAfee let me down and I got hit with PE_CIH. PC_CILLIN took care of it and is my friend for life.
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Response Number 4
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Name: DW
Date: February 18, 2002 at 08:22:08 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)IMHO Norton has gone downhill
I have Norton 2002 on an XP machine, 2001 on a
Windows 98 machine & 2000 on an old 486, have
paid to renew the subscriptions on the older versions.
The Norton site has had an update listed for 2 days yet
it is not available through Live Update yet on any of
the versions I use.
Used to be you could post a question on their message
board & receive an answer within 24 hours, now it takes
days if not weeks to receive an answer.
If they can't straighten up their act I'll be looking for
other virus protection, since it seems they are no longer
reliable
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Response Number 5
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Name: Danty
Date: February 19, 2002 at 06:47:30 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Just an Opinion: Norton 2002 is DIFFERENT. It does not use much mem. and does not crash on XP! I caputures and cleans over 90% of virues thrown at it! As for MacAfee it would report viruses but a LOT of times failes to CLEAN them. As for PC-Cillin, fails to detect and clean most virues especialy encrypted ones (it reports different virus names). I've been usin antivirues for over 3years. And now I've come to a conclusion, Norton is simpily the best out there keeping in minde that everything is relative!
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Response Number 6
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Name: Michael
Date: February 19, 2002 at 22:20:16 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)AVG is the best not because it's free because it's the best period. Get it here see for your self
http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_index.htm
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Response Number 7
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Name: JohnT
Date: February 22, 2002 at 08:56:10 Pacific
Subject: Free anti-viruses vs comercial ones |
Reply: (edit) I think I got this from someone on this forum and want to re-pass for those that have not seen it, a comparison on what anti virus programs work and which ones are not that effective. http://www.virusbtn.com/100/vb100sum.html
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