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Feb 7th, 2007 at 5:49pm

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Hi to all.
My Norton is expiring in few days, and i wish to change to something different,maybe not so heavy, if it is possible...
My possibly choose are
Kaspersky
Panda
McAfee
Anyone can suggest me one of these that has experience with?

Thanks
Stefano
 
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Reply #1 - Feb 8th, 2007 at 1:09am

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I used to use Kaspersky and liked it (but this was a few years back). Have you considered AVG, it is free and really good!
 
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Reply #2 - Feb 8th, 2007 at 5:24am

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...silly me...

I purchased, and Installed Norton SystemWorks many years ago...
It was costing me a fortune to keep paying for it every year, and now I can't get rid of it without doing a complete Format of my hard drive....

...so my present advice would be....

Grissoft's AVG, free program... Kiss...!

...with it's automatic, regular, free up-grades.... Smiley...!

It seem to work fine... Wink...!

Paul...Virus-free...(apart from an annoying cough).... Smiley....!

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Reply #3 - Feb 8th, 2007 at 6:39am

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Norton-Even when you stop paying for it, your will still pay for it.  Grin
 
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Reply #4 - Feb 8th, 2007 at 8:06am

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Two years online with nothing but the default firewall and Spybot (which isn't really an antivirus program), and my machine has never gotten "sick" from anything out there...

I don't download much stuff, though... that may be why.

A tip: don't download images- grab 'em with irfanview.
 
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Reply #5 - Feb 8th, 2007 at 12:28pm

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Thanks for the suggestions guys, i was thinking to go for AWG, i have had time ago, and was fine, probably the best solution.
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Reply #6 - Feb 9th, 2007 at 1:06pm

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I stayed with Avast for 3 months, but whenever I'm flightsimulating or playing a game, it updates and crashes the game, so I'm downlading AVG again now... it is simply the best Wink
 
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Reply #7 - Feb 9th, 2007 at 2:51pm

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Forget Norton and other payware av. They want to get in control of your system.
AVG is IT.
 
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Reply #8 - Feb 9th, 2007 at 6:59pm
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AVG free is the the best download u will ever make, it has kept me safe for years!

i currently have NOD32 but it lets to many things through its not great, so when i format my XP OS partition 2moro im installing AVG for my AV Cheesy

seriously though, AVG free is your best bet!!! you can not go wrong!

i got computer shopper 2day and they have an artivle on anti virus  programs im gonan read it 2moro and i will tell u what they recomend...

but AVG FREE FTW!
 
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Reply #9 - Feb 9th, 2007 at 7:02pm

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AVG
 
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Reply #10 - Feb 9th, 2007 at 7:04pm
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alrot wrote on Feb 9th, 2007 at 7:02pm:
AVG


im sorry alrot but i didnt quite get the point of your message Tongue Grin
 
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Reply #11 - Feb 10th, 2007 at 1:21am
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Panda is a great anti-virus. It got rid of a few viruses that NO OTHER could.
 
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Reply #12 - Feb 10th, 2007 at 11:31am

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NOD32 ALL THE WAy, 100%. I will personally pay you £20 if you cant find a better, more SECURE (Lab tests confirm it is the most secure anti virus in existance), SYSTEM FRIENDLY (Uses no resources).

You CANT Put a price tag on its protection.

www.eset.com

Try it, to believe me. I'm 99.9% sure that all NOD32 users will agree with me, and i'm 90% sure you will see a difference. Trust me.
 
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Reply #13 - Feb 11th, 2007 at 4:26am

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Jimbo wrote on Feb 10th, 2007 at 11:31am:
NOD32 ALL THE WAy, 100%. I will personally pay you £20 if you cant find a better, more SECURE (Lab tests confirm it is the most secure anti virus in existance), SYSTEM FRIENDLY (Uses no resources).

You CANT Put a price tag on its protection.

www.eset.com

Try it, to believe me. I'm 99.9% sure that all NOD32 users will agree with me, and i'm 90% sure you will see a difference. Trust me.

I agree it is the only security I use. No need for firewall, spy ware utilities or anything else.
small footprint, lowest memory use etc....
Can't beat it.
 
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Reply #14 - Feb 11th, 2007 at 8:42am

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I've used both Norton and McAffee and dislike them both.  They both nag me to upgrade to their other products on a fairly regular basis.  If I wanted to put spamware on my computer I wouldn't have bought software specfically intended to stop it.  Little did I know that software WAS spamware...
 
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