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Which is the best antivirus program
Name: mysterious_guy Date: August 15, 2005 at 23:54:16 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: athlon64 939/3gb
Comment:
Can anyone tell me which is the best antivirus program on the market, im wanting a program that wont slow down my system as norton does, any suggestions........
P.s Please tell me what antivirus program do you use
Name: XpUser4Real Date: August 16, 2005 at 05:46:06 Pacific
Reply:
look up post #16353
Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks
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Response Number 2
Name: najitech Date: August 16, 2005 at 07:08:20 Pacific
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I have been using a free program called AntiVir. I don't know if it's the best program out there; all I know is that I have been using it for several months, and have not had any virus problems.
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Response Number 3
Name: JohnO Date: August 16, 2005 at 09:31:16 Pacific
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I've been using myEtrust AV for 3-4 years with no problems. It's a small, nonobtrusive program that's frequently updated- sometimes twice a day. Not free, but worth the $30 (approx), and a small annual charge.
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Response Number 4
Name: johnr Date: August 16, 2005 at 10:11:29 Pacific
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There are a lot of posts on this subject - the main point(s) being that Norton & McAfee are very heavy on your system - also Norton only automatically updates once a week - even AVG will automatically check & update on a daily basis! You can also find a number of sites which compare the effectiveness of different AV programs & you'll find that they all go up & down the table each month but generally the paid for versions score better than free ones, though speaking from personal experience, AVG has picked up problems which Norton has missed in the past.
"I know that I'm mad - I've always been mad..."
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Response Number 5
Name: Bill2 Date: August 24, 2005 at 23:48:02 Pacific
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I concur with johnr about AVG from Grisoft (Free version). Have used for a couple years and it has been on top of things much faster than McAfie or Norton.
Cheers, Bill2
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Response Number 6
Name: suhaq Date: August 26, 2005 at 10:31:06 Pacific
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i think the best antivirus software programs, using antivir, cause i have been using on 3 years ago, i doesn't have virus problem, or u can using deepfrezee for best protection,
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Response Number 7
Name: XpUser4Real Date: August 26, 2005 at 10:51:50 Pacific
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Deepfreeze is a pretty expensive solution. I would suggest Avast! I've been using it for 3 yrs now and it has caught everything that's been thrown at it, and the on-line up-dates work awesome...unlike most AV's that have to be manually set.
Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks
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Response Number 8
Name: bolarinho Date: August 29, 2005 at 21:57:05 Pacific
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I don't know wich is the best but I know that Mcafee can bring alot of problems to your pc.
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