What's your anti virus?

Xarathos · Post by **Xarathos** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:05 am

I had used McAfee and Norton before switching to AVG free. Norton really ticked me off! I had Norton 2003, renewed my subscription, and had a couple of issues with it. Auto protect and email scanning were not working. I contacted Norton and guess what? They don't support 2003 anymore. This was in 2004! They took my money to renew my subscription.
Anyway AVG free is working great, no problems or issues. I found it on http://www.majorgeeks.com, which I check every day now looking for interesting software to try.

daddyloko · Post by **daddyloko** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 7:49 am

I use Norton,it does it's job-so far.
I tried pulling up that web page and no can do.

Post by **arthas** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:58 am

Hi!

In the rare cases where I'm not using Linux, my antivirus of choice is aVast. It's free for personal use, it's lighter than Norton, and it does it's job well!

M.

Razor_54 · Post by **Razor_54** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:03 pm

I also use AVG, works great and it's free. Never was a fan of Norton. I sometimes wonder if they don't create their own viruses just to keep themselves in business.

magnum · Post by **magnum** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:34 pm

I use AVG also and it is Great

Free updates and you can schedule it to run scans for whatever time is good for you

Claudester · Post by **Claudester** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:11 pm

I have used Nortons Corporate Edition for a few years now with no problems.

The Falcon · Post by **The Falcon** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:37 am

On the advice of some computer geeks, I now use Mozilla FireFox for my browser. It's supposed to have fewer security problems than Internet Explorer. http://www.mozilla.org/
I also use AVG Free and a router even though I only have one computer.

Mr_Guano · Post by **Mr_Guano** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 9:01 am

AVG here as well!
ZoneAlarm for Firewall (also free), plus there's one in the router.
And Firefox of course

G

tanto · Post by **tanto** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:53 pm

AVG - unfortunately they stop supporting the version 6

David

PS: Any idea for free anti-virus SW?

Xarathos · Post by **Xarathos** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:13 pm

Well good news David, they have another free version. You can find it and other cool stuff here.
http://www.majorgeeks.com

Razor_54 · Post by **Razor_54** » Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:52 pm

Also direct from their web site.

http://www.grisoft.com

tanto · Post by **tanto** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:04 am

Thanks for the links. Grisoft is actually Czech company

omega · Post by **omega** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 1:57 pm

Xarathos wrote:I had used McAfee and Norton before switching to AVG free. Norton really ticked me off!

Well, they all piss me off. McCaffee is like a cud chewing old cow in terms of speed, not to mention being a memory hog.

Norton's "support" policies really suck. So far the best "support" suggestion is a complete uninstall and reinstall.

There's clearly a conflict between Norton AV 04 & 05 and Windows XP SP2. As soon as you install the SP2 upgrade norton goes to shit. The when you reinstall norton, something in SP2 causes blue screen memory dumps.

I've had it with both of them. The next one, I am just going to wipe the HD, install XP-Pro without SP2 and then use Zone alarm as my firewall again. Never had the problems I had now until SP2.

Even sent a complaint letter via fax to the VP of product support - No answer. PUSSY!

Razor_54 · Post by **Razor_54** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:38 pm

SP2 has also caused me alot of problems. The only time it seems to be stable is when SP2 is installed on a fresh install.
Norton does not seem to like SP2 built in anti-virus. Since reformatting my HD and not installing SP2 it runs fine.
Micorsoft sucks, maybe time for Linux.

Xarathos · Post by **Xarathos** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:58 pm

tanto wrote:Thanks for the links. Grisoft is actually Czech company

I did not know that. What a small world. Thats two things that the Czechs make that I like.

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