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killer_ewok

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Jul 14, 2010 8:48 AM
Mine expired and I'm looking to buy a new antivirus/spyware program.

From your experiences, chatterers....which one do you recommend? Thanks in advance.
Jul 14, 2010 8:48am
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FatHobbit

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8,651 posts
Jul 14, 2010 8:56 AM
AVG. it's free.
Jul 14, 2010 8:56am
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Steel Valley Football

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4,548 posts
Jul 14, 2010 8:57 AM
Trend Mirco is the best one out there for the money. Norton and McAfee are horrible.
Jul 14, 2010 8:57am
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vball10set

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24,795 posts
Jul 14, 2010 9:00 AM
AVG Free Edition/Spybot
Jul 14, 2010 9:00am
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WebFire

Go Bucks!

14,779 posts
Jul 14, 2010 10:02 AM
Vote for AVG as well.
Jul 14, 2010 10:02am
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gut

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15,058 posts
Jul 14, 2010 10:08 AM
Comodo (firewall + anti-virus - best out there and free, not as user-friendly as AVG)
Spybot Search & Destroy (free, has a nice immunization feature for Firefox and IE to prevent you from going to known malicious sites)
Ad-aware (free)

Truly the only 3 programs you need. No reason to pay for these services. Been using Spybot and Ad-aware for years with no problems. Have run other programs and those two seem to catch 99.9% of everything. I will on occasion, just because I'm paranoid, run Malwarebytes but it's never found anything. Windows Defender has never found anything and I no longer bother with it.

edit: the latter two are more spyware/bloatware/malware. Comodo or AVG is the anti-virus. I think a lot of people don't understand the difference, and we can debate how technically different they are.
Any computer needs 3 things to be protected: firewall, anti-virus, and anti-spyware/malware.
Jul 14, 2010 10:08am
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krambman

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Jul 14, 2010 10:20 AM
Steel Valley Football;423280 wrote:Trend Mirco is the best one out there for the money. Norton and McAfee are horrible.

Correct. If you are going to buy antivirus (I just don't trust a free program to be as up-to-date as one I'm paying for) this is the best one available. They have various levels to choose from (with or without internet security, spyware protection, etc) so you can find the one that's right for you and your budget. I buy a two year license to save money, I have it on a schedule to download updates every four hours and it scans my whole computer every night. You also get free upgrades to new versions of the software if you still have a valid license and you can transfer the license to a different computer if you get a new machine. The nice thing with Trend Micro is that if you get the right one it will cover all three things gut talks about (firewall, antivirus, and anti-spyware) all in one program.
Jul 14, 2010 10:20am
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End of Line

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6,867 posts
Jul 14, 2010 10:26 AM
AVG
Jul 14, 2010 10:26am
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Nate

Formerly Known As Keebler

3,949 posts
Jul 14, 2010 10:29 AM
AVG Free
Malwarebytes
Spybot

Game over..


Take those 3 programs and you are safe and if you do get something, between the 3 of them, it will be fixed.
Jul 14, 2010 10:29am
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stationrun

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Jul 14, 2010 10:39 AM
AVG Free Edition & Spybot
Jul 14, 2010 10:39am
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MontyBrunswick

Jul 14, 2010 11:16 AM
Avast is pretty good
Jul 14, 2010 11:16am
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GoChiefs

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Jul 14, 2010 3:16 PM
Nate;423351 wrote:AVG Free
Malwarebytes
Spybot

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Jul 14, 2010 3:16pm
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TBone14

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Jul 14, 2010 3:18 PM
I use Kaspersky and have had no troubles...so I guess that means it works. In the past have used Zone Alarm, Norton, and McAfee and didn't like them as much.
Jul 14, 2010 3:18pm
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MontyBrunswick

Jul 14, 2010 3:19 PM
AVG Free is really "meh".

To be honest, they're all pretty "meh".

When it comes to "On-Demand" scanners, Malwarebytes is the bomb.
Jul 14, 2010 3:19pm
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krambman

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Jul 14, 2010 3:31 PM
I think it's important that we all understand that computer viruses are almost nonexistent at this point. Trojans, spyware, and tracking cookies are really what you need to be concerned about, so whatever you get, making sure the program is good dealing with those is really more important than making sure that it deals with viruses.
Jul 14, 2010 3:31pm
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thePITman

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Jul 14, 2010 7:33 PM
ZoneAlarm Security Suite
Jul 14, 2010 7:33pm
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killer_ewok

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Jul 14, 2010 8:44 PM
Kaspersky it was. Thanks for all of the input and info.
Jul 14, 2010 8:44pm
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gut

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Jul 14, 2010 10:39 PM
thePITman;423806 wrote:ZoneAlarm Security Suite

Don't know if the premium version is better, but free Zonealarm has gotten pretty poor reviews recently. That's why I switched to Comodo.
Jul 14, 2010 10:39pm