Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

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Re: Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

Post by JariV » Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:49 am

McAfee.
1) My provider gives it for free.
2) Works good :P


But most of the time I use Linux w/o/ antivirus software.
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Re: Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

Post by DK » Wed Jan 06, 2010 4:40 am

I use Sophos because Uni give me it for free.
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Re: Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

Post by Jaruff » Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:12 pm

On my Windows partition, I'm using avast! It's free and it's good. For Linux, I use Clam. It's also free and good. It's also GPL, which is even better.

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Re: Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

Post by lifeisbetterwithketchup » Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:15 pm

AVG. It's free; it works; and it's unobtrusive.
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Re: Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

Post by tom61 » Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:37 pm

I'm beginning to think kamrienlorrry is a spam bot. Ambitious little bugger if it is. Has made three establishing posts.

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Re: Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

Post by dragonhead » Thu Jan 07, 2010 2:28 am

i dont use spam software. i, unlike most people, actually watch what i download.

and normally, im on a mac, so its irrelevant

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Re: Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

Post by vskid » Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:01 am

tom61 wrote:I'm beginning to think kamrienlorrry is a spam bot. Ambitious little bugger if it is. Has made three establishing posts.
Yep, that seems to be how most of the recent spambots have worked. Make a somewhat relevant post that doesn't have anything to do with portablizing, and then change their sig to spam a few days later.
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Re: Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

Post by JariV » Thu Jan 07, 2010 12:32 pm

WOW now I got a topic in the computer tech section.

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Re: Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

Post by MasterPrime » Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:43 am

I don't use one. I run housecall.trendmicro.com every couple of weeks but I don't have a need to bog down my computer every hour of the day. Just be careful of the sites you go to and the stuff you download. Generally if you're acquiring software or media legally, you don't have to worry about that stuff.
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Re: Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

Post by bicostp » Sun Jan 10, 2010 12:03 pm

I use AntiVir. It's faster, uses less resources, and has better real-time detection than AVG, and unlike ClamWin it actually detects viruses. :lol:

MalwareBytes is on here too, just in case it's needed.

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Re: Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

Post by joeyjoe9876 » Sun Jan 10, 2010 12:50 pm

whats an Antivirus software? haven't had one of those since windows vista
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Re: Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

Post by That Tech Kid » Thu Jan 14, 2010 1:57 pm

i use kasperskey, it dosen't us a lot of resources like Norton and is really fast, it catches everything.

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Re: Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

Post by BENFTW » Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:34 pm

I use AVG. Its free, works great and scans daily. It is also unobtrusive, unlike Norton which I found very annoying when I had a trial. I have also had Avast! before, and it works great as well. AVG and Avast! are both great free anti virus software if you are looking for something that is free.

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Re: Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

Post by OMGpedobear » Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:48 am

dragonhead wrote:and normally, im on a mac, so its irrelevant
:facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: Im usually using linux and although they exist i have nothing valuable stored and reinstall takes a few secs :P. On windows i use avg.

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Re: Which Antivirus Software do you use ? Why?

Post by metalcookie » Sat Jan 16, 2010 5:34 pm

Symantec AntiVirus

My IT friend was given a copy by his company that never needs to be renewed, and I didn't feel like paying for antivirus software.
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