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  1. January 3rd, 2005, 11:17 PM #1
    Steve-007
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    Virus Protection?

    I currently do not have any virus protection on my computer, which as you can probably guess, is not a good thing. I was just wondering if anyone knew of some good anti virus software that i can download for free. I'd appreciate any help
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  2. January 3rd, 2005, 11:21 PM #2
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    AVG is what a lot of us use. remember:

    Practice Safe Computing
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  3. January 4th, 2005, 12:25 AM #3
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    AVAST: www.avast.com
    AVG 7 : www.grisoft.com
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  4. January 4th, 2005, 05:46 AM #4
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    My personal preference is Norton AV. I have not heard anything bad about AVG, though.
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  5. January 4th, 2005, 07:29 AM #5
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    I only mentioned free ones, personally I use NAV2K5 on all my machines.
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  6. January 4th, 2005, 08:14 AM #6
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    AVG and Zone Alarm (at the bare minimum) and NOW!

    If you've been on the net (obviously) get ADAware and Spybot as well, and do a complete test of your pc with all of these.
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  7. January 4th, 2005, 09:26 AM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by TechZ
    I only mentioned free ones, personally I use NAV2K5 on all my machines.
    What happened to NOD32?
    Get Buzzed
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  8. January 4th, 2005, 10:35 AM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by Drone2903
    AVG and Zone Alarm (at the bare minimum) and NOW!

    If you've been on the net (obviously) get ADAware and Spybot as well, and do a complete test of your pc with all of these.
    Ditto.


    This is what I set up on home machines for customers, when they ask for good, free software.
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  9. January 4th, 2005, 12:44 PM #9
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    NOD32 is great but not free. I would get it, but stuck with NAV. And use Spyware Blaster to prevent malware beforehand.
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  10. January 4th, 2005, 01:30 PM #10
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    I've been using etrust (computer associates) ez antivirus for the past year and have been quite happy with it. Updates automatically, very low resources. Had been a NAV user and ditched it. They also have a bundled package called ez armor which includes zonealarm (rebadged). There is a promo available where you can get ez armor free for 12 months: http://store.ca.com/dr/v2/ec_main.en...715&CID=179825
    Probability factor of one to one...we have normality, I repeat we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
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  11. January 17th, 2005, 07:36 PM #11
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    Thankyou everyone I am protected now yay!
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  12. January 25th, 2005, 01:12 PM #12
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    Pestpatrol is very good!
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