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Title: Virus Protection
Post by: Scrap Daddy on July 30, 2009, 10:54:40 PM
Mine is about to run out and I need suggestions. I bought some for like 20 bucks and it absolutely sucked. It would virus and spyware scan weekly and never catch anything but tracking cookies which leaves me to believe it didn't do a thing.

plz halp
Title: Virus Protection
Post by: HurricaneAndrew on July 30, 2009, 11:12:09 PM
Avira AntiVir - Personal:
 
http://www.free-av.com/
 
Works great for me.
Title: Virus Protection
Post by: JoeBlo on July 30, 2009, 11:18:29 PM
I pay $100 per year for Trend Micro, great scanner never had a virus issue for about 3 years now
Title: Virus Protection
Post by: russian roulette on July 30, 2009, 11:40:46 PM
3 words AVG Anti Virus I use limewire with it and never had a virus
Title: Virus Protection
Post by: life robot arena2 on July 31, 2009, 02:49:23 AM
The Latest Norton 360!
Title: Virus Protection
Post by: somestrangeguy on July 31, 2009, 07:09:31 AM
I use AVG 8.5, no viruses gone trough.
Title: Virus Protection
Post by: ACAMS on July 31, 2009, 10:16:47 AM
Avast is free and good
Title: Virus Protection
Post by: russian roulette on July 31, 2009, 12:04:56 PM
Quote from: somestrangeguy;55946
I use AVG 8.5, no viruses gone trough.

Same with me. So now thats 2 people with a working computer with the same virus protection.
Title: Virus Protection
Post by: kill343gs on July 31, 2009, 01:46:08 PM
Don't use: norton or mcafee

AVG would be your best bet.
Title: Virus Protection
Post by: somestrangeguy on July 31, 2009, 01:53:17 PM
*agrees with kill*

Norton is heavy as an elephant, slowing computer down. I know from experience, my computer startup speed and overall processing speed during normal use went up alot when I switched to AVG.

AVG is indeed free, but if you want a firewall out of it too, you need to buy it.
Title: Virus Protection
Post by: life robot arena2 on August 01, 2009, 06:19:43 AM
My one catchs tons of cookies.with ads.
Clean strataight record. never had a virus detected.
Title: Virus Protection
Post by: JoeBlo on August 01, 2009, 06:24:47 AM
you surf the internet and your scanner has never detected a virus ?? thats not a good thing :neutral:
Title: Virus Protection
Post by: life robot arena2 on August 01, 2009, 03:07:42 PM
My norton did get attacked however.
Guess the record is DONE.
Title: Virus Protection
Post by: Serge on August 03, 2009, 06:47:45 AM
Avast or Avira.
Title: Virus Protection
Post by: HX_ on August 03, 2009, 08:01:09 AM
Avast and Ad-Aware real-time scanner
Windows Firewall behind a secure router
Firefox addons Ad Block Plus and No Script!
Spybot S&D hosts file blacklist

when infected use:

Malware Bytes
AVG Anti-Rootkit
Combo Fix
Hijackthis
CCleaner
Title: Virus Protection
Post by: Serge on August 03, 2009, 01:20:48 PM
Ad Block Plus is excellent, I find NoScript a little bit too overkill and paranoid.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is the sh** when it comes to spyware removal.
Combofix,  Hijack This! and CCleaner are all very good, too.
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: Scrap Daddy on November 06, 2011, 03:58:07 PM
it's that time of the year again and I need to hook my computer up completely (virus protection, firewall, etc), anyone have good suggestions? It doesn't have to be free, but I'm not looking to spend a ton.
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: NFX on November 06, 2011, 04:04:52 PM
I could only really suggest Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. It is free, and it's very good. I've also got Microsoft Security Essentials, but I'm not sure how much that would cost.
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: Naryar on November 07, 2011, 02:11:16 AM
I use a CCleaner/Spybot S&D/AVG Free combo for my security. Seems fine.
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: Jonzu95 on November 07, 2011, 02:13:05 AM
I use Avast. I don't need anything else.
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: 123savethewhales on November 07, 2011, 04:50:36 AM
Avast, with 90% of the stuff turned off.  Only thing left on is auto update and scheduled weekly scan.  No anti virus can protect you if you are an idiot and download from unreliable source, that's what school computers are for.

My Firefox however has at least 3 things running at a time (scriptblock/adblock/stylish) which combine with disable avatar/sign/profanity/smilies allows me to actually browse this forum.
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: Mr. AS on November 07, 2011, 01:46:15 PM
Avast + AVG 2012 (Free edition)
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: smashysmashy on November 07, 2011, 04:03:56 PM
Either Avast or the free AVG IMO.
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: Reier on November 07, 2011, 11:51:26 PM
Norton?
I'm gonna hurl

Personally I use some local thing and it's pretty good, amazing support even if it should fail.
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: Hydro on November 08, 2011, 01:35:27 AM
Symantec Client Security is what I use. Not sure why.
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: frezal on November 23, 2011, 02:15:04 AM
I like Panda Cloud.
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: Ben Purse on November 23, 2011, 04:15:15 AM
I use Norton.
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: frezal on November 23, 2011, 05:46:31 PM
I use Norton.
STOP IT!
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: System32 on November 23, 2011, 06:08:03 PM
I use Norton.
STOP IT!
Successful troll.
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: HurricaneAndrew on November 23, 2011, 06:17:57 PM
I use Norton.
STOP IT!
Successful troll.

I would venture to say that Ben wasn't trolling and actually does use Norton.
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: doublestrand on November 24, 2011, 11:45:48 AM
Wile looting  a scrap heap the other day I found my old copy of Norton antivirus, I picked it up and said "why did I ever throw you away?" As I said this I suddenly caught fire, then I relised why Norton ended up there.

... oh and I use AVG and Avast because if one don't work the other will!
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: Meganerdbomb on January 26, 2012, 12:17:29 PM
Panda Cloud, dawg. It's free, light, and it works.
Title: Re: Virus Protection
Post by: Team 9 on January 26, 2012, 12:31:39 PM
kaspersky and malwarebytes. A class stuff.