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Sally 03-03-09 10:53 PM
Re: Get Free Really Good Anti Virus Software Here!
 
Its not exactly in a bad state, still useable, just really slow/tempramental..

Would be nice to get it back to what it was like when it was new..

The hard drive atm is 236GB, and is 80% free i think.

Dave20046 03-03-09 11:00 PM
Re: Get Free Really Good Anti Virus Software Here!
 
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Originally Posted by appollo1 (Post 1807374)
I hope this is genuine as my puter is really slow at the moment so will give this a go.
malware bites is the best malware killer available IMO

Dave20046 03-03-09 11:00 PM
Re: Get Free Really Good Anti Virus Software Here!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by saoralba (Post 1807506)
Its not exactly in a bad state, still useable, just really slow/tempramental..

Would be nice to get it back to what it was like when it was new..

The hard drive atm is 236GB, and is 80% free i think.
get rid of norton it's be like new

Sally 03-03-09 11:03 PM
Re: Get Free Really Good Anti Virus Software Here!
 
Really?
Is it that bad?

Why is my Dad paying some this sh!te if you can get better free?

fizzwheel 03-03-09 11:06 PM
Re: Get Free Really Good Anti Virus Software Here!
 
Norton Anti-Virus has made every machine I've seen it installed on run like a bag of sh*te.

Dave20046 03-03-09 11:15 PM
Re: Get Free Really Good Anti Virus Software Here!
 
And you need a norton removal tool to get rid of the fecker. It's like a virus in itself, grabs hold and wrecks it. Ya dad's paying because people think they need to pay for quality, Grisoft's AVG 8 should do ya combined with a weekly scan or so of malware bytes. Online armour's a good idea for program/registry protection + firewall. perhaps overkill though.

ethariel 03-03-09 11:26 PM
Re: Get Free Really Good Anti Virus Software Here!
 
Get rid of norton to start with.

Download AVG as its a decent AV product for the price (ie free) - if you want to go the pay for route kaspersky or Sophos are quite reliable.

Dont forget to also download a firewall as norton probably does that too. Zone Alarm is an obvious choice (even tho its owned by some not so nice folks these days).

Just be carefull if you are running vista as Zone Alarm/AVG don't work together too well so Avast is another choice for Av in that case.

For malaware/spyware then Adaware is reasonably good tho i have no experience of the software at the start of the thread.

Dave20046 04-03-09 09:04 AM
Re: Get Free Really Good Anti Virus Software Here!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ethariel (Post 1807550)
Get rid of norton to start with.

Download AVG as its a decent AV product for the price (ie free) - if you want to go the pay for route kaspersky or Sophos are quite reliable.

Dont forget to also download a firewall as norton probably does that too. Zone Alarm is an obvious choice (even tho its owned by some not so nice folks these days).

Just be carefull if you are running vista as Zone Alarm/AVG don't work together too well so Avast is another choice for Av in that case.

For malaware/spyware then Adaware is reasonably good tho i have no experience of the software at the start of the thread.
The software at the atart of the thread is better than adaware, far more thorough.
I've not had a good impression of sophos, kasperspy or Nod32 would be my recommended pay softwares.

startrek.steve 04-03-09 09:38 AM
Re: Get Free Really Good Anti Virus Software Here!
 
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Originally Posted by dizzyblonde (Post 1807385)
hmmmm got Nrton and its up in a day or two, want a free one this time as Norton is poo.

Any good ones to replace with? Is there anybody beside saorlba thats used the one in the link before I go playing with it?
Get AVG Free Dizzy, use it on all the windows PC's in the Service.
Steve

startrek.steve 04-03-09 09:39 AM
Re: Get Free Really Good Anti Virus Software Here!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Skip (Post 1807443)
I used to use AVG up until recently but havent been impressed with the amount of resources required by version 8. Kaspersky is meant to be one of the best ones out there but I just cant bring myself to part with money for AV software so I went back to Avast! which I had put on parents machine years ago and they have had no trouble with it.

Malwarebytes is good - I would recommend having AV software as well though.

Just my 2p... :)
Yeah, AVG V8.0 was chuggy at first & I clung onto V7.5 for six months, but V8 has settled down now, its fine.
Steve


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