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Old 04-02-2008   #31 (permalink)
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Re: Whats the Best Antivirus/ Security Suite??

hi thegerrymon

You might like to checkout Comodo's free firewall. It's a very good one from what I understand.

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Norton 360 is the way to go, you don't know its there, anybody who tells you it slows your system is telling porkies,

Theres a new version in the pipeline Norton 360 2, my licence runs out in two months I'll be changing to version 2 then, you can't beat an excellent system and reasonably priced too.
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I'm using Sophos Anti Virus. Its a pretty good one to compared to Norton 03/05 (used to have those). I get a free subscription from where I work in the summers.
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I have used Trend Micro Internet Security, for many of years now on my old XP,XPMC and now on vista, ok it cost a few quid, but it runs in the back ground with getting in the way of doing stuff, you can custom scan, it has Wireless Home Network Monitoring if a virus has landed it will shut your internet off, and overall its a dam good suite. you get 3 licenses for the cost of it.

i would recommend it to anyone and i do.

I have just put AVG on a vista laptop, for one of the lads with me, cos he is a cheapskate but he has had nothing but problems from day one, it slow the laptop down quite a lot and overall its cheap
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hi thegerrymon

You might like to checkout Comodo's free firewall. It's a very good one from what I understand.

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Hi Neil. Thanks for the link to the Comodo firewall. I installed it tonight. After installation, when it asked me to reboot, I got an error message that my operating system was missing. Yikes! However, when I cold started the machine, Windows loaded in normally, well sort of anyway, as I was asked by Comodo to approve a lot of M$ system programs. I guess I'm spoiled by Zone Alarm which recognizes almost all of those programs and pre-approves them. Nonetheless, it seems to be working well and a scan I did with it found 3 malware programs that AVG apparently didn't. I do feel better with it running rather than the Windows Firewall. So thanks again.

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I have used Trend Micro Internet Security, for many of years now on my old XP,XPMC and now on vista, ok it cost a few quid, but it runs in the back ground with getting in the way of doing stuff, you can custom scan, it has Wireless Home Network Monitoring if a virus has landed it will shut your internet off, and overall its a dam good suite. you get 3 licenses for the cost of it.

i would recommend it to anyone and i do.

I have just put AVG on a vista laptop, for one of the lads with me, cos he is a cheapskate but he has had nothing but problems from day one, it slow the laptop down quite a lot and overall its cheap
I notice you have a 32 bit machine. I tried Trend Micro on my 64 bit and had lots of problems. Tech rep at Trend Micro said M$ was messing them up with Service Pack 1 and suggested uninstalling SP1 until they could work out bugs. I elected to uninstall Trend Micro but might look at it again when I hear they have worked the bugs out for 64 bit systems.


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I am running trend on a Toshiba Satellite P200 1G8 with 4Gb and yeah it runs very well, nothing gets in the way of it and it does not get in the way of anything i do, and i run quite a few network apps from it, as i am running a network in Iraq right now.

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I'm using Sophos Anti Virus. Its a pretty good one to compared to Norton 03/05 (used to have those). I get a free subscription from where I work in the summers.
Any Norton version before 2007 was poor, present ones are top notch and highly recommended, they've got their house in order and created a great program.
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I'm using Sophos Anti Virus. Its a pretty good one to compared to Norton 03/05 (used to have those). I get a free subscription from where I work in the summers.
Any Norton version before 2007 was poor, present ones are top notch and highly recommended, they've got their house in order and created a great program.
Parents use it on XP, took tech support 1 month to get back to me with the suggestion of uninstalling it,

great for when u have lots of memory and not play games or are a numpty, but can not recommend norton for anyone who plays FPS games
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Parents use it on XP, took tech support 1 month to get back to me with the suggestion of uninstalling it,

great for when u have lots of memory and not play games or are a numpty, but can not recommend norton for anyone who plays FPS games
I told you my opinion, theres no need to be insulting, and its only a numpty that would take a month to uninstall Norton.

And I still recommend Norton to anyone, either 360 or 2008.
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