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View Poll Results: Which Antivirus You Would Rate The Best?
1) Norton Antivirus 6 23.08%
2) McAfee Virus Scan 3 11.54%
3) Kaspersky 1 3.85%
4) AVG Free Edition 8 30.77%
5) AVG Commercial Edition 0 0%
6) Bit Defender 1 3.85%
7) Panda Antivirus 1 3.85%
8) !avast Antivirus 1 3.85%
9) Any other, pls specify 5 19.23%
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Old 20-07-2005, 11:35 AM   #1
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I voted AVG free... because it's free and works fine!

Anyway it hasn't much to do since i installed ZoneAlarm k:
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Old 20-07-2005, 02:54 PM   #2
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Panda is brilliant. In tests, (computeractive) Panda came out top of least cpu and ram usage tests. Before that I used to use Mcafee, and after the one year licence had run out, i was unable too update to a new licence for some reason. Internet explorer wouldn't have it (i hate microsoft, one of the reasons i use firefox). Then it became a pest, a popup got in the way of everything that reminded me to update the licence, even games! It is still doing it on my old pc now (it also has an intle cpu, another one of my hated companies, GO AMD). But my new pc came with 3 months of free panda platinum, so i gave it a try. Never even thought of mcafee when i updated my licence a while ago to Titanium! :w00t:
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Old 20-07-2005, 08:36 PM   #3
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I use McAfee Security Suite.

It gives me everything I need - virus scan, pop-up blocker, firewall, spamkiller.

I like it, it works, and I wouldn't want to change now. :bleh:
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Old 21-07-2005, 05:58 AM   #4
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AVG FREE EDTION RULES!
1. It is free
2. It has never failed
3. I have the latest and greatest version 7.0
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Old 21-07-2005, 03:46 PM   #5
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McAfee, Firefox, Microsoft Antivir, Few anti-spy/adware progs.. keeps me safe.
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Old 22-07-2005, 01:53 AM   #6
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McAfee sucks, let many viruses though.
Norton is a resource hog and complete nuisance
Panda made my system go funky

And AVg is the best freeware thinggy ever made....besides Zone Alarm Basic
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Old 22-07-2005, 02:19 AM   #7
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Originally posted by mm_pie@Jul 20 2005, 02:54 PM
Panda is brilliant. In tests, (computeractive) Panda came out top of least cpu and ram usage tests.
Panda doesn't work that well.. Maybe it's because their updates really aren't the best, but a friend omf mine had it for a long time and was complaining about virus. We uninstalled panda, installed Norton and in the first scan it detected 27 virus that Panda didn't.

Bad part of Norton is that the quarantine is ****ed up. It simply won't delete the damn files, you have to do it by yourself.
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Originally posted by Caged@Jul 22 2005, 02:53 PM
McAfee sucks, let many viruses though.
Norton is a resource hog and complete nuisance
Panda made my system go funky

And AVg is the best freeware thinggy ever made....besides Zone Alarm Basic
McAfee is the best! It never lets any viruses in! I visit a lot of crack sites and viruses are designed by them mainly and McAfee detects the viruses, blocks script execution and so much it does, even cntrols spywares and adwares!
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Old 22-07-2005, 10:41 AM   #9
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when you get annoyed with mcaffee, their customer support is pathetic and is even worse than norton. good 4 a while then it bcomes a pest!
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Never thought of their customer support! :blink:

Although AVG is good but I have never tried it, I had a chance of installing it just for a day and later on my Windows crashed and then I had McAfee to install! :whistle:
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