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02-11-2011, 09:59 PM
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we've had Norton for the last year,i've hated it all the way,slowed this PC down,like a battle really=park cursor over their icon/wait for the screen to catch up,wife bought it to protect the various family members laptops(including hers,only ME uses this PC=wah!),,,i just wanna surf fast hard and cover various chapters of my life in the quickest possible time,NOT look at a screen like i'm still on dial-up  ,no time for slow!,soanyway,what anti-virus are YOU using?
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02-11-2011, 10:07 PM
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02-11-2011, 10:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Close enough to San Fran | | I used to use avg free, but when i was having issues with my laptop, I tried scanning with Avast! anti-virus and it found 4 viruses right away which when I scanned right before with AVG it didn't find.  Computer went right back to great running order afterwards, so I dumped avg. I have heard bad things about Norton, so I would recommend Avasts' free edition.
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02-11-2011, 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Floyd Eye  A Mac. | Or this if you have an extra 1200$
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02-11-2011, 10:15 PM
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02-11-2011, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by UncleFluffy Microsoft Security Essentials and a checkin with Trend Micro Housecall once every month. | I've heard nothing but good things about Microsoft Security Essentials. Meanwhile, on my personal system, I switched to ubuntu several months ago and haven't looked back.
You can take baby steps towards Linux by trying the Windows versions of some popular free software apps such as Firefox and OpenOffice. |
02-11-2011, 11:38 PM
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Originally Posted by fdeck I've heard nothing but good things about Microsoft Security Essentials. Meanwhile, on my personal system, I switched to ubuntu several months ago and haven't looked back.
You can take baby steps towards Linux by trying the Windows versions of some popular free software apps such as Firefox and OpenOffice. | Due to job requirements I run Windows with a Debian (Ubuntu without the shiny things) VM. With Windows running an X server you can run a reasonably clean mixed-OS system. Cut-and-paste, shared file system, all that sort of thing.
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02-12-2011, 12:16 AM
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02-12-2011, 01:08 AM
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Originally Posted by ShredderMaximus I used to use avg free, but when i was having issues with my laptop, I tried scanning with Avast! anti-virus and it found 4 viruses right away which when I scanned right before with AVG it didn't find. Computer went right back to great running order afterwards, so I dumped avg. I have heard bad things about Norton, so I would recommend Avasts' free edition. | +100 on Avast...
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02-12-2011, 01:52 AM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by steelhead2 we've had Norton for the last year,i've hated it all the way,slowed this PC down,like a battle really=park cursor over their icon/wait for the screen to catch up,wife bought it to protect the various family members laptops(including hers,only ME uses this PC=wah!),,,i just wanna surf fast hard and cover various chapters of my life in the quickest possible time,NOT look at a screen like i'm still on dial-up ,no time for slow!,soanyway,what anti-virus are YOU using? | I'm using Norton and have done for about 5 years now, works great for me, never have any of the issues you describe. In fact, the newer versions have seemed more transparent than ever.
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02-12-2011, 06:38 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Upstate, South Carolina | | | I've used AVG for years without a hitch. But keep in mind that lots of virus prevention is simply common sense. Stay off the pron sites, stay off Limewire, stop with the illegal music, and stop downloading every Facebook app available.
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02-12-2011, 06:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Floyd Eye A Mac. | THEY'RE IN EVERY COMPUTER THREAD!
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02-12-2011, 06:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: St. Louis | | The OP asked a question. I merely answered. 
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02-12-2011, 07:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Floyd Eye The OP asked a question. I merely answered. | It's a perfectly fair answer. It's only the pointless "versus" debates that make it seem like trolling. Whether it's a practical answer or not, the OP can decide.
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02-12-2011, 07:17 AM
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Originally Posted by fdeck It's a perfectly fair answer.
Do you recommend Apple Care? | No, it's a tired, repetitive, perfectly snarky answer.
And to ask about Apple Care is to imply that OH MY GOD...and Apple might potentially NOT "just work"? To even exist to be a chink in their armor.
I use Avira free, and combined with superantispyware free, my set runs pretty good...then again, I don't spend hours watching midget porn.
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02-12-2011, 07:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: St. Louis | | | No snarkiness, merely an answer. I suppose an anti-Mac person might think it's snarky.
As to AppleCare, yeah I recommend it. When my first machine was 1 1/2 years old the Super Drive went down. It was repaired free. I also got a new keyboard and mighty mouse on them. The older mighty mouse has issues with the scroll ball.
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02-12-2011, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Floyd Eye No snarkiness, merely an answer. I suppose an anti-Mac person might think it's snarky. | Wrong. I have no dog in this fight as I have and use both regularly, but you cannot sit there and say that type of answer isn't tired / old enough to vote. The OP was asking what anti virus to use with a WINDOWS MACHINE. Tell me how your answer was useful?
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02-12-2011, 07:27 AM
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Originally Posted by hover Wrong. I have no dog in this fight as I have and use both regularly, but you cannot sit there and say that type of answer isn't tired / old enough to vote. The OP was asking what anti virus to use with a WINDOWS MACHINE. Tell me how your answer was useful? | I'm not going to waste any of my time arguing with you dude.
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02-12-2011, 07:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | It's cool man, you merely provided an answer, I merely provided an opinion. Personally, I cannot WAIT until the entire populace becomes as informed as the enlightened few, everyone switches to Macs, market share SOARS, and then the viruses that expose Apple's OS vulnerabilities come to rise, and then next time someone asks what anti-virus for a Mac? Someone will chime in "Durr, get a PC")
lest Floyd thinks I'm just being a dick, I apologize, it's all in jest. Sorry man, had my cranky pants on.
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02-12-2011, 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by fdeck It's a perfectly fair answer. It's only the pointless "versus" debates that make it seem like trolling. | I'd disagree. In the context of the OP's question, "What anti-virus are you using?", just posting the two word response "A Mac" without further expansion is fairly obvious trolling.
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