What Antivirus Do You Use?

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  1. Gam3r

    Gam3r Active Member

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    I use norton, only because somewon I know bought it already and I hear its ok anti-viruse, anyone know anything else that is free thats better?
     
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    Avast? It's only been said 1,000,000 times...
     
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    AVAST > *
     
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    Kaspersky and zone alarm internet secruity suite lie time registration
     
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    The latest McAffee, I think its pretty good. I dunno though, I used to use Norton but swicthed when every1 said mcAfee owned norton, I dunno which is best now lol.
     
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    It cant hurt to have to many anti-viruses. I use Avast, Zone alarm and nod32.

    I prefer nod32 since it picks up almost anything. sometimes it will pick up a Backdoored app but rarely, its free and offers Internet Scans, email scans, Execution scans (scan files before it runs), mdb scans. you can find it at www.eset.com
     
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    No, I do believe is you have more than 1 firewall (and I think anti virus as well) running at the same time they overlap each other or something and its as if you dont have a firewall at all.
     
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    synmatec anti virus corporate edition. lifetime subscrption to liveupdate.
     
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    I use Avast!, AVG Free, Ewido anti-malware, and norton
    I also use ad-aware, Spybot - search and destroy and Spyware Blaster

    Can't be too protective its a virus jungle out there! ;)
     
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    Adware, Norton, Spyware and Microsoft Anti-virus :D
     
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    I found Symantec's AV to work nicely... It's not as hogging as norton.

    Nod32 is not free, tho. It's only free for 30 days, but it is good.
     
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    Isnt Nortan symantec's antivrus though? :unsure:
     
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    http://symantec.com/product/index.html

    Symantec AV is more for large businesses that have 500+ Client PC's. but you can use it at home just as easily.

    Norton is owned by Symantec, but Norton and Symantec are like two different companies.

    I'm getting a headache trying to explain this.

    Norton <> Symantec

    (<> means "not equal")
     

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