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09-18-2010, 08:50 AM
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What is your favourite anti virus?
Pretty simple question, what anti virus do you primarily use?
Price etc. is obviously not an issue.
Currently I can't decide between Kaspersky and NOD32, but I'd like to hear other opinions.
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09-18-2010, 09:02 AM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
I've used Kaspersky for the past 3 years and I've found it to be extremely good, I've never got a major infection in that time. What I find kind of annoying about it, are those pop up boxes, they sometimes come up during the middle of a game and then I have to tab out in order to get rid of them.
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09-18-2010, 09:06 AM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
Microsoft Security Essentials seems to work the best for me - all though I'm considering getting Kasp' for my new computer.
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09-18-2010, 09:17 AM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
A year ago my family had no Anti-Virus on our computer. We got infected with a Trojan and got AVG Antivirus. It cleared our computer so we've been with it since 
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09-18-2010, 09:22 AM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
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A year ago my family had no Anti-Virus on our computer. We got infected with a Trojan and got AVG Antivirus. It cleared our computer so we've been with it since 
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AVG is pretty good, although it isn't so good at finding the hidden ones.
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09-18-2010, 09:23 AM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
I use 3 all the time. AVG, McAfee and Kapersky. If one of the anti-viruses miss a virus, I'm in deep shit so I have all 3 run scans once a week.
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09-18-2010, 09:31 AM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
Avira Anti Virus. Its pretty good.
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09-18-2010, 09:53 AM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
Easily the best free anti-virus is Microsoft Security Essentials.
The best paid anti-virus is Nod32.
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09-18-2010, 10:10 AM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
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Easily the best free anti-virus is Microsoft Security Essentials.
The best paid anti-virus is Nod32.
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"paid" is not a problem.
I used to use Nod32 on my old computer, before that I used Kaspersky. I was just wondering what everyone else uses 
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09-18-2010, 10:38 AM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
Malwarebytes, it can take anything off your computer.
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09-18-2010, 11:48 AM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
AV Security Suite. Lol, jk. AVG, I know it isn't the best but it works for me.
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09-18-2010, 11:48 AM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
I;ve always liked Avast! for free antivirus and Malwarebytes' paid. Avast! is free with the features of Kaspersky, but doesn't detect as much, and Malwarebytes' can remove just about any infection.
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09-18-2010, 11:51 AM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
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I;ve always liked Avast! for free antivirus and Malwarebytes' paid. Avast! is free with the features of Kaspersky, but doesn't detect as much, and Malwarebytes' can remove just about any infection.
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Malwarebytes doesn't have to be paid, you can extend your trail for however long you need.
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09-18-2010, 11:54 AM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
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Malwarebytes doesn't have to be paid, you can extend your trail for however long you need.
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But paid has live memory scanning, I wouldn't recommend a program to any non power-user without that.
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09-18-2010, 11:55 AM
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But paid has live memory scanning, I wouldn't recommend a program to any non power-user without that.
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They only advertise that for paid, it does it reguardless.
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09-18-2010, 12:02 PM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
I use Quick Heal Antivirus since from two years that is good for my PC so it's become my favorite
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09-18-2010, 12:14 PM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
Free: Avg Free
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09-18-2010, 01:01 PM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
I use AVG and malware anti bytes or w.e the name is 
I heard good things about NOD32..
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09-18-2010, 01:18 PM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
I used to pay for Norton/Kaspersky and my PC kept crashing and getting infected
Now im using AVG(free !) and i didnt have any problem in the last year..
Also my McAfee trial worked well imo.
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09-18-2010, 01:40 PM
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Re: What is your favourite anti virus?
I use AVG cause its free and pretty good.
If something gets passed AVG, I'll attempt with Malware Bytes, if that doesn't do the trick.
I pull out the big guns, which then I try ComboFix which has fixed everything so far
But before I had Combofix, I used the best Virus Removal possible, My windows install disk Lol
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