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Anti-virus/spamware etc; What's everybody using nowadays?
Topic Started: Oct 10 2009, 08:57 PM (129 Views)
sandal	Oct 10 2009, 08:57 PM Post #1
The Chaser Posts: 1,115 Group: Administrator Member #19 Joined: August 28, 2004 Mood Inspired	This question gets brought up every once in a while. Been using avg for what seems like forever and i've never really had an issue. it's free, lightweight and seems to do the trick (i probably have a virus and don't even know it lol...doubt it). anybody out there want to try and convince me otherwise? i like free, i like lightweight...anything better than avg?



dfxshadow	Oct 11 2009, 02:40 AM Post #2
Silver Member Posts: 1,861 Group: Retired Staff Member #54 Joined: September 19, 2004	I had been a long time user of AVG but in the last 6 months It had become more and more resource intensive. I noticed a lot more false positives on some files I stored. It also took it upon itself to delete many of them. When I started beta testing Win7 I noticed MS was putting out a new AV product. It's free and lightweight. I decided to give it a try and I am really happy I did. It integrates so well into windows 7 I almost forget its there. Also every review i could find it out performs the other free AV's on the market. http://www.microsoft.com/SECURITY_ESSENTIALS/default.aspx Anyhow, if you can get past the idea of trusting MS for security, I'd say give it a try.
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centurion	Oct 11 2009, 02:46 AM Post #3
Trouble Maker Posts: 460 Group: Member Member #277 Joined: June 12, 2005	avast pro is what am using, it seems to be quite good



StEC	Oct 11 2009, 11:11 PM Post #4
Gender Hudini Admin Posts: 16,574 Group: Administrator Member #1 Joined: August 19, 2004 Gender Male Mood Sick Browser Firefox Blog StEC's Blog!	I have been a very loyal Avast user until MS came out with their own AV product called "Security Essentials" as Shadow was mentioning it's free and VERY LIGHTWEIGHT you don't even notice it running in the background because MS worked very hard on it's code and who knows windows better than their creator so it honestly blends perfectly and works perfectly and gives out barely no false positives unlike other AV products that think some random Windows processes are an attack of some sort and alert you it don't happen with this... it uses less than half of the resources Avast used and Avast is always considered a lightweight itself so that's a very good thing PLUS it has passed all the best virus scanning tests around with flying colours!
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paq7512	Oct 14 2009, 10:16 AM Post #5
Loyal Member Posts: 301 Group: Member Member #7 Joined: August 22, 2004	I remove viruses from computers all day long. Here is what I use: Avira, Malwarebytes, Combofix, hihack this. Avira is currently rated number 1 on Avcomparatives, these guys right over 1M viruses. All those programs I use are free99.



dfxshadow	Oct 14 2009, 04:34 PM Post #6
Silver Member Posts: 1,861 Group: Retired Staff Member #54 Joined: September 19, 2004	I have used Malwarebytes, and Combofix quite often. However, Avira, I am unsure of as they are not even certified. http://www.westcoastlabs.com/checkmark/search/ is a good place to find certified av products.
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sandal	Oct 14 2009, 05:24 PM Post #7
The Chaser Posts: 1,115 Group: Administrator Member #19 Joined: August 28, 2004 Mood Inspired	been using security essentials past few days. i don't even notice it, doesn't even have a toolbar icon. really it's just about being smart on the internet. good antivirus will only get you so far



StEC	Oct 14 2009, 07:04 PM Post #8
Gender Hudini Admin Posts: 16,574 Group: Administrator Member #1 Joined: August 19, 2004 Gender Male Mood Sick Browser Firefox Blog StEC's Blog!	So you like Security Essentials then? I love it and coupled with what you said "being smart on the net" and you will be fine.
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paq7512	Oct 23 2009, 09:37 PM Post #9
Loyal Member Posts: 301 Group: Member Member #7 Joined: August 22, 2004	It is great Microsoft has released a capable AV. This may lead to other AV companies having to think of new ideas in their software for people to buy and renewal.



zzzzzzzuhlast	Oct 24 2009, 10:29 AM Post #10
Mercora's Purple Monkey Posts: 686 Group: Investor Member #843 Joined: August 5, 2009 Gender Private	Nice read, thanks I am gonna give essentials a try (up til now was using Kaspersky trial for win 7)
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