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24. September 2006 @ 21:37 |
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It's better to get separate AV, anti-spyware, and firewall. That's why I listed each type of product separately above. Unfortunately, there is no one, good, "do-all" suite.
-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
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neojapan
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24. September 2006 @ 23:02 |
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Hello everyone I was checking out the thread and my questions is,what about McAfee? is there anything wrong with it,I use to have Norton but it did use up to much ram and I swithed to McAfee
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popol24
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25. September 2006 @ 01:46 |
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hi guys, i'm finally convinced and i'm just going to get the stuff separately, and they are:
free AVG AV
spybot (someone tell me if ad aware SE is better?)
zone alarm firewall
i'll see if all these work beautifully together. thanks everyone!
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25. September 2006 @ 01:52 |
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Include Ewido Anti-spyware in that and you'll have a good setup. Don't have to purchase it unless you prefer to. After the trial you won't have automatic protection and automatic update, but you can update manually and scan about once a week. Hell, not 10 minutes ago I found I had a trojan when scanning Ewido. :)
By the way, go with Spybot.
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25. September 2006 @ 11:25 |
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Go with Ad-Aware too. Again, Comodo is the beter firewall though ZA isn't bad. I also prefer the less-well-known stuff, as long as it's as good or better, because hackers usually set their sights only on the popular products.
-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
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ddp
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25. September 2006 @ 14:02 |
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popol24
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2. October 2006 @ 16:26 |
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hey dunker, could you post the link for the comodo firewall? i've googled it but i'm not sure if it's the right one, and i don't want to install something that's stuff me pc up. thanks!
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squijello
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2. October 2006 @ 17:38 |
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i used to like Kaspersky but their recent revision has lost sight of their straightforward anti-virus approach and now has many unnecessary aspects... I have tried AVG and didnt have a problem with it, but i really like Avast! Home Edition, it seems to have a pretty good detection rate, and this may just be my imagination, but it seems to scan faster than AVG... it also has the virus recovery console which allows virused files to be replaced with thier originals, im not sure if AVG free has such a system, if someone knows post!!
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2. October 2006 @ 18:35 |
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-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
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2. October 2006 @ 18:39 |
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Avast! does scan faster, but unless things have changed in the last six months (the last time I used it), it has a markedly inferior detection engine to Avira and maybe AVG. However, it is probably the fastest of all the major "free" products. I use Avira which is excellent though it randomly pops up a full screen when it updates, which is really irritating to some people.
-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
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squijello
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2. October 2006 @ 18:44 |
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what about that virus recovery console thing... as far as detection, they claim 100% for viruses in the wild... also... avast! seems to look nicer, without skins, the skins are terrible...
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popol24
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2. October 2006 @ 19:39 |
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A big thank you to everyone who contributed! everything has just been installed, (and Norton thrown away, thank goodness) and it seems that the pc is much much faster now! again, thank you and hopefully, there won't be any problems
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wasted05
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2. October 2006 @ 20:08 |
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aww thats it i was having fun in this formu i learned a lot...lol
popol24 + question + afterdawn= :)
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ddp
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3. October 2006 @ 11:51 |
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teach & learn
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squijello
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8. October 2006 @ 11:28 |
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for the record i want to say avast! outperforms AVG... i was running AVG on one computer and avast! on the other... the computer with AVG got a virus which it attempted to infect over the network on my avast! protected computer and it just didn't happen... i needed to format the AVG computer and now its running avast!
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iampolly
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9. October 2006 @ 02:54 |
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i have got norton internet security 2005 and i thought it was working fine not letting any virus in then i got a dialer trojan and a trojan horse
when i try to do a full scan it does not pick up the virus but i always have these things in my task bar saying computer is infected
i just download AVG free this minute will it work
please help
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Plextor
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9. October 2006 @ 03:04 |
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you have norton internet security installed right
1. Download AVG
2. Disable Internet
3. Disable Norton Anti-virus (you have to do this because AVG and norton anti-virus could conflict with each other so disable this DONT TURN IT BACK ON! unless your AVG anti-virus is off)
4. Install AVG Free
5. Restart Comp
6. Done!
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9. October 2006 @ 04:35 |
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@iampolly,
Plextor is correct about the software conflicts, you don't want that, but this is a thread discussing AV's, if you need help w/ your malware problems start a thread in windows spyware & virus forum, good luck.
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iampolly
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9. October 2006 @ 21:16 |
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ok i have done that and performed a full system scan with AVG
and AVG removed the virus to the virus vault. i then emptied the virus vault and things were ok.
but then in my task bar i still get virus alerts from windows
and pop ups
what should i do?????
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10. October 2006 @ 08:03 |
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My last post:
"@iampolly,
Plextor is correct about the software conflicts, you don't want that, but this is a thread discussing AV's, if you need help w/ your malware problems start a thread in windows spyware & virus forum, good luck."
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ddp
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10. October 2006 @ 10:03 |
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iampolly, read the forum rules above about posting & hijacking threads. start a new thread about your problem because hijacking threads can & will get you banned.
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bigcat1
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10. October 2006 @ 17:00 |
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i got AVG on my computer and it work fine
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squijello
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11. October 2006 @ 06:42 |
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try installing avast! and downloading a spyware program like Defender... you may have spyware which is causing problems... and AVG cannot detect spyware at all...
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popol24
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15. October 2006 @ 05:44 |
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hehehe, i guess i'm back again. just one question: once i've done a full system virus scan with AVG free, and if it has detected some virus, will it automatically delete it, or will it put it into this vault thingie? coz everytime i do a scan, there's always one trojan virus (whatever it was called) and i can't seem to delete it! and btw, how do you delete stuff in the vault? thanks in advance! (sorry if it was such a noob question)
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ravens1
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15. October 2006 @ 17:30 |
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Go into virus vault, and empty it.
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