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Dec 17th, 2008 at 2:49pm

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I am thinking about installing antivirus software just reinstalled etc...
But I play alot of games and trim down my system as much as possible. How many of you use antivirus and what would you reccomend for the smallest footprint I have searched and most say Nod32 but trying to get your ideas.
 
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Reply #1 - Dec 17th, 2008 at 2:55pm

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AVG free + Spybot + Adaware = happy computer. Wink
 
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Reply #2 - Dec 17th, 2008 at 4:31pm

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Wii wrote on Dec 17th, 2008 at 2:55pm:
AVG free + Spybot + Adaware = happy computer. Wink



Agreed. Wink
 
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Reply #3 - Dec 17th, 2008 at 5:47pm

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I used to be an AVG user , but I rather this (just another option)

http://www.free-av.com/
 
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Reply #4 - Dec 17th, 2008 at 7:37pm

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Alejandro Rhodes wrote on Dec 17th, 2008 at 5:47pm:
I used to be an AVG user , but I rather this (just another option)

http://www.free-av.com/


Same here. Avira hasn't let me down yet, and it seems lighter on resources than any other FREE antivirus software I've tried. It's real time protection is really hard to beat. That, with Ad-Aware and Spy-bot S&D as mentioned above, you should be pretty well covered.
 
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Reply #5 - Dec 19th, 2008 at 9:46am

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Has anyone else here tried Avast?

I am running it now, and am grateful for the day I dumped McAfee.
 
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Reply #6 - Dec 23rd, 2008 at 1:47pm

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Get McAfee it works great
 
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Reply #7 - Dec 23rd, 2008 at 2:08pm

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lunitic_8 wrote on Dec 23rd, 2008 at 1:47pm:
Get McAfee it works great

McAfee is terrible.
 
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Reply #8 - Dec 23rd, 2008 at 3:02pm

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Best Free AV

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Reply #9 - Dec 23rd, 2008 at 3:33pm

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Wii wrote on Dec 23rd, 2008 at 2:08pm:
lunitic_8 wrote on Dec 23rd, 2008 at 1:47pm:
Get McAfee it works great

McAfee is terrible.

how?
 
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Reply #10 - Dec 23rd, 2008 at 3:36pm

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lunitic_8 wrote on Dec 23rd, 2008 at 3:33pm:
Wii wrote on Dec 23rd, 2008 at 2:08pm:
lunitic_8 wrote on Dec 23rd, 2008 at 1:47pm:
Get McAfee it works great

McAfee is terrible.

how?

Poor scanning, doesn't recognize all threats, slow startup, high system resources and can corrupt your system on uninstall. Wink This comes from personal experience.
 
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Reply #11 - Dec 23rd, 2008 at 3:43pm

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Wii wrote on Dec 23rd, 2008 at 3:36pm:
lunitic_8 wrote on Dec 23rd, 2008 at 3:33pm:
Wii wrote on Dec 23rd, 2008 at 2:08pm:
lunitic_8 wrote on Dec 23rd, 2008 at 1:47pm:
Get McAfee it works great

McAfee is terrible.

how?

Poor scanning, doesn't recognize all threats, slow startup, high system resources and can corrupt your system on uninstall. Wink This comes from personal experience.

oh, its been fine with me and its reconized all threats and removes them for me
 
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Reply #12 - Dec 23rd, 2008 at 5:03pm

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I had extreme performance cuts with McAfee.
And it missed a trojan once on me.
No warning, no message. Nothing.

After loading it, I immediately noticed it took twice as long to start up.

That was all on my XP OS. Ran much better after I ditched it.
For my Vista (64 bit) set up, I just stuck with Avast. No real complaints there.
 
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Reply #13 - Dec 23rd, 2008 at 8:15pm

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sonic wrote on Dec 17th, 2008 at 2:49pm:
I am thinking about installing antivirus software just reinstalled etc...
But I play alot of games and trim down my system as much as possible. How many of you use antivirus and what would you reccomend for the smallest footprint I have searched and most say Nod32 but trying to get your ideas.



you can listen to who ever you want to and remember that most people think with thier wallets


if you take no other advice in this thread, take this:

YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR
if you know what your doing



In that, you decide


The 2 PhD's in me and the experience I have tell me that NOD32 AV (not the security suite product, just the AV) are all I need and that I can fly with it enabled and not ever have a single problem








 
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Reply #14 - Dec 23rd, 2008 at 10:24pm

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Have none of you read Nick's amazing FSX set-up thread? Shame Shame!

Gotta go with NOD32.
 
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Reply #15 - Dec 23rd, 2008 at 11:06pm

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Wii wrote on Dec 23rd, 2008 at 2:08pm:
lunitic_8 wrote on Dec 23rd, 2008 at 1:47pm:
Get McAfee it works great

McAfee is terrible.


60% of the time, it works all the time
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Reply #16 - Dec 29th, 2008 at 10:19am

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Just a word of warning - Don't get Norton 360!

I have it at the moment and it's pretty poor. Starts up quickly and doesn't use many resources but it's just bad.

I've heard great things about Kaspersky and I'm also told Norton Internet Security 2009 is just as good as Kaspersky.


However, listen to NickN!
 
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Reply #17 - Dec 30th, 2008 at 8:47pm

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I wouldn't pay for anything but NOD32... but I don't have the money so unfortunately I'll eventually have to go with one of these free ones
 
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