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09 May 2009, 09:39 AM
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Virus Protection
I have Norton virus protection on my dell laptop, and it's crap. I remember reading about a good free virus checker on here a while back, but can't find the thread.
Anyone recommend any good freebies? Something on my laptop keeps on turning off the norton phishing filter
Anyone recommend any good freebies? Something on my laptop keeps on turning off the norton phishing filter
09 May 2009, 02:24 PM
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my mates use avg i can give you something so that the avg wont expire for as long as you have your laptop
i personally use mcafee
i wouldnt change it for the world i paid something like £50
i am a network engineer and i think its one of the best if not the best anti virus software out there
i personally use mcafee
i wouldnt change it for the world i paid something like £50
i am a network engineer and i think its one of the best if not the best anti virus software out there
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10 May 2009, 11:14 AM
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my mates use avg i can give you something so that the avg wont expire for as long as you have your laptop
i personally use mcafee
i wouldnt change it for the world i paid something like £50
i am a network engineer and i think its one of the best if not the best anti virus software out there
i personally use mcafee
i wouldnt change it for the world i paid something like £50
i am a network engineer and i think its one of the best if not the best anti virus software out there
10 May 2009, 05:04 PM
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Kasp or Avast.... Avast is very good and sits in very little memory but wil monitor everything. AVG is ****e, don't waste your time with it, I found it hogged system resources like you wouldn't believe.
Kaps is one of the best on the market, you can ge the CD from Tesco for £20 with three licenses, well worth it.
Kaps is one of the best on the market, you can ge the CD from Tesco for £20 with three licenses, well worth it.
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Nortons is a b***** to remove completly...re-install windows....In the IT trade and most of the people I know in the trade use AVG.....we all subscribe, not the free version. Supliment it with Spybot and adaware....all good pieces of kit.
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AVG is not good software. Even with the latest, fully up to date version installed, it lets things through (I have had to try to recover numerous infected machines that have had it installed). It consistently ranks low in the various independent tests, and I've yet to meet an I.T. professional that will recommend it. In fact in my place of work, it's a disciplinary offence to even install it!!
19 May 2009, 10:47 AM
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AVG is not good software. Even with the latest, fully up to date version installed, it lets things through (I have had to try to recover numerous infected machines that have had it installed). It consistently ranks low in the various independent tests, and I've yet to meet an I.T. professional that will recommend it. In fact in my place of work, it's a disciplinary offence to even install it!!
Can't really comment on Kaspersky as I have no recent experience, as we switched to nod32 a few years back. We used to have kaspersky, but the later versions appeared to be getting more bloaty and resource hungry.
We still run three Pentium III machines with 384meg RAM and a Celeron-D with 256Meg RAM, of which all run nod32 AV quite happily. I don't think there is any other AV on the market that will run satisfactorily on these machines without grinding them to a halt.
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As above Norton is awful and to remove it completely you need to download a removal tool from Norton's website. You should do this before trying to install anything else.
I use the internet security suite from Eset (the makers of NOD32)
http://www.eset.co.uk/promotions/sma...FYiD3gode3tbSA
Very small system footprint, does all one can reasonably ask. Costs, but you get what you pay for. Most IT professionals I know use it.
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I use the internet security suite from Eset (the makers of NOD32)
http://www.eset.co.uk/promotions/sma...FYiD3gode3tbSA
Very small system footprint, does all one can reasonably ask. Costs, but you get what you pay for. Most IT professionals I know use it.
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