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Shroom_i
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Anti-Virus Freeware for Windows 8?
#19406008 - 01/11/14 09:57 PM (10 years, 19 days ago) |
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Norton expired, and I'm broke.
What's next in my life silicon guru's?
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Re: Anti-Virus Freeware for Windows 8? [Re: Shroom_i]
#19407335 - 01/12/14 08:24 AM (10 years, 19 days ago) |
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Avast or AVG does the job.
http://www.avast.com/en-gb/index http://free.avg.com/gb-en/homepage
I just use Microsoft Security Esssentials. It's free, fairly light weight and is sufficient for anyone with decent security sense. I'm using win7 though.
I would never recommend paying for AV. In my experience the paid for services are more or less equal to the free ones except they're are more resource draining. Norton is a bloated pile of crud that has crippled many an older machine for me. It's the media player equivalent of iTunes. Looks grand, does what everything else does but runs an excessive amount of programs in the background.
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Shroom_i
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Re: Anti-Virus Freeware for Windows 8? [Re: infected_2]
#19408262 - 01/12/14 12:58 PM (10 years, 19 days ago) |
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Thank you sir. I've had good experiences with Avast.
I'll look into avg a bit more, and see where I end up.
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Shroom_i
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Re: Anti-Virus Freeware for Windows 8? [Re: Shroom_i]
#19411541 - 01/13/14 08:04 AM (10 years, 18 days ago) |
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I ended up going with Avast! based on their P2P security features.
Thanks guys!
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deadwk
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Re: Anti-Virus Freeware for Windows 8? [Re: Shroom_i]
#19418850 - 01/14/14 06:33 PM (10 years, 16 days ago) |
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Spy Bot Search & Destroy, AVG Free, and you should have Malware Bytes Anti Malware to perform on demand scans when ever you feel like it is neccesary.
You should consider getting a firewall, If you don't want the built-in windows one, Comodo makes a good free one
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r00tuuu123
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Re: Anti-Virus Freeware for Windows 8? [Re: Shroom_i]
#19419727 - 01/14/14 09:14 PM (10 years, 16 days ago) |
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Shroom_i said: Thank you sir. I've had good experiences with Avast.
I'll look into avg a bit more, and see where I end up.
Personally I'd go with the AVG you can set it up to update and scan when you know you will not be on your computer and it gets updated at the same rate as something like Norton.
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Shroomism
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Re: Anti-Virus Freeware for Windows 8? [Re: r00tuuu123]
#19425703 - 01/16/14 12:05 AM (10 years, 15 days ago) |
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Avast is pretty great as far as free ones go. AVG is up there too
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gmc52789


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Re: Anti-Virus Freeware for Windows 8? [Re: Shroomism]
#19431799 - 01/17/14 03:33 AM (10 years, 14 days ago) |
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I put avg free on all my clients PCs after there initial trial of McAfee or w.e expires.
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