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internet anti-virus?

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steelhead2

Jun 18, 2009
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Rogue River Oregon
#1
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:rollno:,no time for slow!,soanyway,what anti-virus are YOU using?
 
#3
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.:spit: 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.
 
#6
UncleFluffy said:
Microsoft Security Essentials and a checkin with Trend Micro Housecall once every month.
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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.
 
#7
fdeck said:
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.
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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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ShredderMaximus said:
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.:spit: 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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+100 on Avast...
 
#10
steelhead2 said:
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:rollno:,no time for slow!,soanyway,what anti-virus are YOU using?
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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.
 
#15
fdeck said:
It's a perfectly fair answer.

Do you recommend Apple Care?
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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.
 
#16
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.
 
#19
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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