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Community weekly poll: Which antivirus utility protects your computer?
- 11/23/05 11:16 AM
AVG antivirus , for me the best
by bergson - 11/27/05 2:41 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Up to now, AVG killed all the viruses my computer had catch, so I donīt need no other one.
Love my Norton
by melissamoss - 11/27/05 2:47 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I bonded with all my Norton software. I was never able to bond with any of the others that I tried. Norton works flawlessly for me and my pc and i love the password manager (was very skeptical about even trying that!)My system is pretty well guarded (no problems since I took this pc out of the box 3 years ago...yes, i've upgraded my memory and video card since then and have wi-fi, etc). It's an entry level (mostly) Dell and the Norton Internet Security/AntiVirus seams with the MS Firewall. They never fight. We are just a happy cyberfamily now. melissa~
Beware of Kaspersky Anti-Virus
by emmauk2005 - 11/28/05 12:47 AM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I downloaded the free trial version a few weeks ago and it totally messed up my laptop. It was constantly using 100% of the CPU, obviously slowing it right down. And when iam actually starting up the laptop instead of taking 2-3 minutes it takes 10-15, since i unistalled it its been fine. the only plus points of the software is that it had detected two viruses that AVG hadnt, but there werent major threats. another problem was the length of time it took to scan. my laptop only has 24GB and it took me 2-3 hours to do a full scan, very irratating, especially because this also slowed down my system.
a note to those who want to try it, BEWARE IF YOU START GETTING PROBLEMS AFTER DOWNLOADING IT REMOVE IT A.S.A.P!!!
antivirus
by kd - 11/28/05 3:34 AM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
i have looked at all of the antivirus utility's use here have used them all and the only one (AT the time)
that didn't miss a virus was Kaspersky which found my
puter still full if viruses,also i have a friend that was having serious problems and she had Norton Pro and i told her to try the trial version of Kaspersky
and it found over 30 viruses runnig through her system,nuff said!!!!!!!!!
Answer to 'How do I protect my computer'
by eajk - 11/28/05 5:19 AM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I protect my pc with OS firewall, as well as a PC dedicated firewall, and finally, a router with firewall capabilities. And, finally, I don't put anything on a pc that I don't want the world to know about. The only safe pc is one that is unplugged.
Avast!
by HiRezL - 11/28/05 11:17 AM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
NT
Norman NVC
by otrcph - 11/29/05 4:24 AM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use Norman NVC and Adaware. I do not know why this firm never is mentioned among the leading virus software. It works very good.
Norton AV
by retired gal - 11/29/05 10:47 AM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I changed to Norton about 3 years ago from McAfee based on my local tech repair person's recommendation. "All the pros use Norton"? Well........not true, obviously. I have Norton's "utility" pkg. and it is good for trouble shooting system "bugs" but customer service can be a challenge. I have gone around in circles with their site to try and get some straight answers to questions, had to remove it once due to a problem with e mail program, being hearing impaired, I have difficulty understanding strong accents from phone support people but they have helped me register again several times after my 2 year old laptop "fried" twice within 30 days. Ouch!
Anyway, I would like to know the bottom line of this poll? Who is considered the best for PC owners? Most people simply want a basic trouble free program to stop all the weird tech nuts out for revenge to the World for whatever perceived reason.
AVG is Great !!
by wtrahan3581 - 11/29/05 7:21 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've been using AVG for several months now. I've used Norton, F-Secure, & McAfee. Norton is expensive and way overrated, it didn't update automatically like it was supposed too and caused all kinds of problems on my machine. I was offered F-Secure free through my Broadband service, that was a disaster, I had to uninstall and reinstall several times,because it would freeze up and wouldn't update. Then I got 2 viruses while using it. As for McAfee, I just didn't like it at all. AVG is the best in my book, easy interface,regular updating, and no problems at all with it on my machine, and best of all, no viruses. I've recommended it to several people, and put it on several machines for family members and friends, all have had great results with it. It's the best free anti-virus out there in my opinion.
AVG ANTI VIRUS
by fiona-grace - 11/30/05 1:09 AM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use AVG and i have to say that it is the best!
i used macfree but i hated it and so did my beloved pc, it nearly wrecked my pc!
i could not uninstall the thing and i had to manually remove it by going into safe mode and then i could not do system restore but luckily i had saved my registry so i had to import the registry - i know what i mean!
dont use macfree it makes you machine slow right down like a sloth!
I do not like PC - cillian
by sannyc22 - 11/30/05 4:37 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
First off, the software is too expensive and only allows one user license. This program is also not as user friendly as other virus scans I have used in the past. The firewall feature is confusing, the spyware scan offers too little information and is down right annoying since you have to delete each detected item individually although there maybe dozens.
Will let you know when I find one that is user friendly
by NKFC-fireman - 12/5/05 3:06 AM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have been dealing with McAfee since buying my computer in early 2001. After the virus protection that came with that purchase expired I purchased McAfee Internet Security ver. 5.0. When that expired I began getting annoying and frequent pop-ups telling me to update my service. I went and purchased McAfee internetsecuritysuite 2005 ver. 7.0. After I installed it the pop-ups continued. McAfee support failed to provide the correct means of stopping them. I finally stumbled across something that looked promising in my Add/Remove and got rid of the pop-ups.
My ver. 7.0 was due to expire March 29, 2006 but something went wrong. It somehow expired a few weeks ago. I had to Add/Remove expunge all of it from my computer before I could get my internet service to be allowed to operate. Of course I could not get to McAfee's internet support site without doing this.
McAfee's Customer Support responded that I should go to its Technical Support. McAfee's Technical Support did not even verify that their response matched my computer's operating system. I have still not re-installed the software because McAfee has yet to respond to my response to their response to being informed that their first Technical Support response was useless to me. So if you have not learned to operate 4 networked computers and are concerned about more than virus problems, try to find something user friendly.
RE: AVG, what's not to love?
by tinker8716 - 12/6/05 9:25 AM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
After running several av's I have found that AVG is tops!
I "infected" the same machine with 8 virus all 8 were found in a matter of seconds using AVG. Norton only found 3, McCaffe only found 5...that is just sad. the high points are that AVG sits in the background and uses minimal system recs, the others really bog a system down.
I highly recommed AVG, and will only use AVG from now on.
It is free, but I have purchased it, and it is REALLY worth it!!! the pro version is feature packed and easy to use! The test system was a Compac Presario 5000 running XP Professional with Office 20003.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE...
by kdstreet - 1/7/06 6:23 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Ok Ok... Here we go...
(Teacher) What is a six letter word for virus?
(Little Johnny)Uuhhh... Inn..... Oooh... Ahrrr... Tuh Tuh Teeee... wait a minute; Hmmmm, lemme see.....
Well, while little Johnny struggles, you figure out the rest, and get a good anti-virus software; Or else the above named worm will eat your memory up!
Trend Micro PC-cillin
by purves1319 - 2/4/06 5:33 PM In reply to: Which antivirus utility protects your computer? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Trend Micro PC-cillin - has been the best I have had in 10 years. Norton kept hanging up on both laptop and desktop. Glad I took norton off both my computers.
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