Title: Anti-Virus Software?
Black Angel - July 11, 2007 11:21 PM (GMT)
What Anti-Virus do you currently have?
SethWhiteFox - July 12, 2007 07:53 PM (GMT)
I have Symantec Antivirus currently.
I like it! ^_^
VirusZero - July 13, 2007 04:26 AM (GMT)
Mcaffee Antivirus... I'm not thrilled with it, but since my university provides it for free, I'm not going to complain.
However if I was going to buy antivirus... I wouldn't pick Mcaffee.
Why? because it eats alot of memory. (Not quite as much as I found Norton Antivirus took. But still a sizeable chunk. Currently Mcaffee is taking 50-60 megs of ram, just idling. )
And when you couple a few programs on that it tends to bog things down rather quick. Plus I've heard Mcaffee isn't the greatest antivirus there is...
Black Angel - July 13, 2007 05:50 AM (GMT)
I use Kaspersky 7.. I have used Norton, AVG, BullGuard, BitDefender.. and a lot of other stuff..
Kaspersky is what works for me..
thefishofdoom - July 13, 2007 05:57 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Black Angel @ Jul 13 2007, 12:50 AM) |
| ...I have used Norton,... |
Ouch....
SethWhiteFox - July 13, 2007 07:42 AM (GMT)
Wow I didn't even know that there were this many different kinds of antivirus.
Then again I shoulda guessed there were. Hell I didn't even know Norton was that bad. I've used it to. I thought the slowness was beceause I was downloading lots of crap back then when I used it...
(When I had Norton I had Kazaa and I didn't know that downloading from Kazaa brings risk back then. X.x' Both of those probally coupled and killed that compy. Well... Got it reformatted...)
Black Angel - July 13, 2007 08:13 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (thefishofdoom @ Jul 13 2007, 01:57 AM) |
| QUOTE (Black Angel @ Jul 13 2007, 12:50 AM) | | ...I have used Norton,... |
Ouch....
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SethWhiteFox - July 13, 2007 08:32 AM (GMT)
thefishofdoom - July 13, 2007 09:18 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Black Angel @ Jul 13 2007, 03:13 AM) |
| QUOTE (thefishofdoom @ Jul 13 2007, 01:57 AM) | | QUOTE (Black Angel @ Jul 13 2007, 12:50 AM) | | ...I have used Norton,... |
Ouch....
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yep it came true to my parents ended up have to reformat there computer Thank god i have my own comp /luve
Dark Mage - July 19, 2007 09:34 AM (GMT)
I use Norton 360, it was the best virus protection where we went to get virus protection.
Black Angel - July 19, 2007 01:31 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (thefishofdoom @ Jul 13 2007, 05:18 PM) |
| QUOTE (Black Angel @ Jul 13 2007, 03:13 AM) | | QUOTE (thefishofdoom @ Jul 13 2007, 01:57 AM) | | QUOTE (Black Angel @ Jul 13 2007, 12:50 AM) | | ...I have used Norton,... |
Ouch....
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yep it came true to my parents ended up have to reformat there computer Thank god i have my own comp /luve
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Another reason I don't like Norton is because they like to narc on you.. so let's say that you don't or didn't update your subscription to their service, for whatever reason, be it a new software, or you are considering switching to linux or whatever your reason is, they will send an email to your isp, broadcasting your online activities.
Be they legal, or not.
Just ask Mr. Nest.. it happened to friend of his.
They then contacted him indicating that Symantec was the one who reported him.
I do not respond well to extortion. so even though I have a legal copy of Norton SystemWorks, I will never renew my subscription.
So them screwing up my system, and other software installed to protect it, aside, I just wanted to give a reason for not liking it that didn't include their functionality, or lack thereof.
Sorry to hear about your parent's pc fish.
technogeek - July 19, 2007 04:33 PM (GMT)
AVG ALL THE WAy but lets not forget anti- spyware
SPY SWEEPER AD-AWARE SE SPYBOT!!