anti-virus software

[Ajaxus]

I will save you all the headache of paying for software that overwhelms your system's ram (mcafee, norton), paying for software that doesn't work, paying for software that deletes much needed registry files, or paying for software in general.

Malwarebytes.

Download it now, upgrade it whenever you use it. Never pay a dime, your computers will remain virus free. It is hands down the best software on the market.

I couple that with Zonealarm (free firewall)..and my computer stays clean all the time. And yes, I download lots of crap online..these two keep the viruses at bay though.

Also, if you don't want Big Brother/The Man watching you when you're online, check out PeerGuardian 2. PG2, constantly updated, keeps others from watching you and what you're doing. Use it for whatever you want.

 

[mrjaguar]

actually the best antivirus is your own personal geek. they'll clean out your computer when it's all gunked up with kaka from all those pron sites you visit, and all the thousand toolbars that get installed when you install "free" software.

BTW: malwarebytes is NOT an anti virus, it's anti malware, anti trojan, and anti spyware.

 

[Ajaxus]

actually the best antivirus is your own personal geek. they'll clean out your computer when it's all gunked up with kaka from all those pron sites you visit, and all the thousand toolbars that get installed when you install "free" software.

BTW: malwarebytes is NOT an anti virus, it's anti malware, anti trojan, and anti spyware.

Pretty sure it's antivirus..if not..oh boy..

Then again, this computer has been on it's last legs for 2 years..in a few weeks I get my alienware laptop..which I'll baby to death.

 

[Darmeen]

Pretty sure it's antivirus..if not..oh boy..

Then again, this computer has been on it's last legs for 2 years..in a few weeks I get my alienware laptop..which I'll baby to death.

Yeah, not anti-virus...

great software though nonetheless, very useful.

 

[tribalmasters]

The 'Embedded Torrent device' as I call it is my machine of choice for that task!

Check out these great features!!
Smaller than a VHS cassette
Basic Anti virus protection
Fanless 466MHz slowmo processor
Boots Linux from a CF card
USB storage devices!!
Torrents(mostly other downloads) work hard to squeeze down the broadband pipe even when the main computer is off!
Remote controlled!!

You should try it too! Find your smallest fanless box for all your downloads and back up to it too!

 

[larktdl]

AVG Free works just fine for personal computers. And if you can hack the software monopoly that MS has over everybody else then check out MS Security Center Essentials: It is a free download from MS as long as the copy of Windows you are running is legit.

 

[ogzpy]

I use Microsoft Security Essentials and have been using it for the past 8 months for Vista and Win 7. Works great, not a bloatware like Norton, and it's free

 

[NCC]

Years ago, I used Norton. Yeah, it was a resource hog if you went with the standard installation. I turned off all background functions and did manual scans routinely.

In recent years, I've been using whatever Comcast provides with their service. That has been McAfee. Comcast is switching to Norton. I'll use it because I'm paying for it.

Truthfully, I was only prompted to respond by the folks who piped in essentially saying Macs and Linux boxes are immune. That's simply not true. It is true they are rarely hit though. Because the .......s who write virus code wish to harm as many people as possible, reach the largest 'audience' ... and that is PC. Neither Mac nor Linux is inherently disease resistant.

What about those creeps who write virus codes? Shouldn't they be subject to the laws which terrorists are subject to? Lowlife scumbags.

 

[tribalmasters]

I just put the ClamAV on my Windows 2000 server after AVG decided that Windows 2000 was ancient!! Maybe I need to start the Windows update and then it will go on!

 

[Pamster]

I am gonna give comodo a try, and avira. Hope these work better for me then macafee does....Thanks for this thread guys, good advice in it.

 

[5cardstud]

I researched a few review sites for the best one out there and came up with either Norton or Kasperski. I wennt with Kasperski and then I bought Malwarebytes to back it up. I run both programs. If you have Comcast they have Norton for fee.