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    Registered User TechZ's Avatar
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    I use avast, Norton. Used to use AVG also, changed that one to avast.

    As usual there is no perfect AV solution, just common sense, clean surfing, no p2p'ing, a good firewall and luck

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    eTrust EZ Antivirus
    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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    allways norton
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    Used to use Fsecure. Now I'm using eTrust. It's pretty good. The best I've ever seen though was Kaspersky's. But eTrust is free for a year.

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    One thing I like about eTrust is that the annual fee (after the first year free) covers version upgrades as well as virus definitions. Norton pisses me off no end in that they force you to buy a new product every year or two.
    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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    What TechZ said - there is no perfect AV program.

    I have, over the last decade or so, used versions of McAfee and Norton. But I resent paying for a piece of software that you never actually own, which has a very limited lifespan and which sucks computer resources for no apparent reason.

    Tried Avast (didn't care for it, user-friendly-wise) and have run one version or another of AVG for the past year and a half. Combined with freeware a-squared (a program any AV user should include) I've not been troubled with anything extraordinary.

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