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Which Anti Virus For my m9750?

post #1 of 30
12/13/07 at 10:58am
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Basically whats the best anti virus out there for XP?

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post #2 of 30
12/13/07 at 11:22am
For free programs, either Avast or AVG free work great.

I also use Lavasoft's adaware SE for spyware removal, it's free also.

For a free firewall program, Zonealarm works well.

Norton works, but it's expensive and it can take over your system. Also, after a year you have to start paying again to get the virus definitions. It's ridiculously expensive for what it is.
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post #3 of 30
12/13/07 at 1:37pm
Big corporations sometimes have freebies for employees:

See if the company you work for has a policy. Mine provides free Corporate Version of Symantec Anti-Virus. The updates are very frequent (every couple of days) and the subscription is lifetime - FREE

They also allow you to purchase Microsoft Office 2007 (with publisher and several others) for $19.99 Its single user to be used only on your home pc.
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post #4 of 30
12/13/07 at 3:11pm
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Originally Posted by mjdart View Post
Big corporations sometimes have freebies for employees:

See if the company you work for has a policy. Mine provides free Corporate Version of Symantec Anti-Virus. The updates are very frequent (every couple of days) and the subscription is lifetime - FREE

They also allow you to purchase Microsoft Office 2007 (with publisher and several others) for $19.99 Its single user to be used only on your home pc.
I'm self employed, and my boss is cheap. He won't buy me anything...
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post #5 of 30
12/13/07 at 6:25pm
In my opinion "Anti-Vir" is the best freeby out there. Has mail, resident protection, automatic updates, basically the works....plus the scanning feature/program is appropriately called "Luke Filewalker"! In official tests, Anti-Vir beats most other freebies out there.

AVG and AVAST are good choices too, check this out: http://antivirus.about.com/od/antivi...a/freeav_2.htm

Anyways best thing to do is just "GooGle top ten free anti-virus programs, read and decide for yourself. The fun part is always the deciding and choosing part...I would do the same for anti-spyware and firewalls.

My weapons of choice are:

Anti Virus:

Anti-Vir - http://www.free-av.com/

Firewall:

Zone Alarm free - http://www.zonealarm.com/store/catal...ku_list_za.jsp

Anti-spyware:

Spyware Doctor - starter edition(This one is free!) - http://www.majorgeeks.com/Spyware_Do...ion_d5790.html

Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoftusa.com/products/ad_aware_free.php

Privacy:

CCleaner(Cleans your history, internet tracks, hard drive and registry optimizer! Great Tool!" - http://www.ccleaner.com/download

The best part is that all the above are free!!!
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post #6 of 30
12/13/07 at 6:55pm
I work at a major ISP in the TS department and I'll tell you what, Anti-Vir is #1 recommendation for us, ZoneAlarm is too restrictive plus has huge memory leaks, Macfee and Norton are an absolute NO!, AVG is also a huge memory hog, spybot search and destroy and AdAware 2007 is a must.
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post #7 of 30
12/13/07 at 11:27pm
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Awsome, thanks guys.
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post #8 of 30
12/14/07 at 1:09pm
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Originally Posted by E-dirt View Post
I work at a major ISP in the TS department and I'll tell you what, Anti-Vir is #1 recommendation for us, ZoneAlarm is too restrictive plus has huge memory leaks, Macfee and Norton are an absolute NO!, AVG is also a huge memory hog, spybot search and destroy and AdAware 2007 is a must.
adaware 2007 won't run right on my m9700. Updates won't work.
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post #9 of 30
12/14/07 at 5:46pm
I have it working great on mine... weird.
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post #10 of 30
12/14/07 at 8:43pm
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Originally Posted by Hammerhead View Post
adaware 2007 won't run right on my m9700. Updates won't work.
Yeah, the update machine is buggy but you still have the option of downloading separate update patches.
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post #11 of 30
12/15/07 at 12:58am
yeah i cant get adaware 2007 to work on the m9750 its just shutdown and says that it cant download the updates..
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post #12 of 30
12/15/07 at 2:52am
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i downloaded the free versions of anti-vir and adaware 2007, but they seem pretty limited. Is it worth buying the Pro versions?
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post #13 of 30
12/15/07 at 3:02am
I would say yes to spending a few bucks for the 'Pro' versions running under XP.

Similar to Hammerhead I've been running Grisoft's AVG (can't speak to Anti-Vir) and Lavasoft's Ad-Aware apps for some time. Just upgraded a few months ago to Ad-Aware 2007 Plus from the older Pro version. Does seem a tad buggy vs. their old rock solid platforms, but it still does the job well.

AVG 7.5 Pro is rock solid as alwaze.



Zoid
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post #14 of 30
12/15/07 at 6:59am
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Originally Posted by Mikeyeg View Post
i downloaded the free versions of anti-vir and adaware 2007, but they seem pretty limited. Is it worth buying the Pro versions?
The thing I like about the pro versions of adaware is called ad-watch. It's a real time spyware scanner and removal system that stops spyware before it gets installed. With the regular free version, you have to run a scan to remove spyware.

Most pay anti-virus programs run in the background all the time, and monitor the system. Most free programs only run when you run a scan.
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post #15 of 30
12/16/07 at 3:24pm
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isnt spybot search and destroy the same as ad-aware?

edit: so....ad-aware detected spybot as spyware. Is that normal?
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post #16 of 30
12/16/07 at 10:10pm
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Originally Posted by Mikeyeg View Post
isnt spybot search and destroy the same as ad-aware?

edit: so....ad-aware detected spybot as spyware. Is that normal?
No to both questions. I ran Spybot S&D for a few years with Ad-Aware and they alwaze played friendly with each other. Uninstalled Spybot S&D just a coupla months ago, I'd had it with the infrequent updates.

Not that it matters about quality of the app or frequency of updates, but I did donate moneys to the Spybot S&D cause every few months, just felt it was the rite thing to do.



Zoid
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post #17 of 30
12/17/07 at 4:23am
Firefox + Avast AV = all u'll ever need!!
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post #18 of 30
12/17/07 at 11:52am
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post #19 of 30
12/17/07 at 12:13pm
I too have been using AVG for years and I have not had any problems.
Thanks to all for the links to other products.
I like to use other programs from time to time as a double check.

I use Trend Micro's online scanner from time to time:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
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post #20 of 30
12/17/07 at 7:05pm
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Avast seems pretty good so far. Are there any known downsides to it?
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