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Best Anit Virus
#5269812 - 02/06/06 03:06 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Someone told me AVG Free was very good, actually they said it was better than Symantec which I have installed??????
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: Ripple]
#5269836 - 02/06/06 03:11 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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They're all good.
If you already have Symantec, use it. It's very good as well. Just make sure you keep it updated and you should be fine.
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: Ripple]
#5269844 - 02/06/06 03:13 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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the best is f-prot, I've used it for many years, it's a heuristic scanner
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: Prisoner#1]
#5269851 - 02/06/06 03:14 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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What's a heuristic scanner priz?
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: Ripple]
#5269855 - 02/06/06 03:15 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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symantec is teh devil.. get rid of it.
anything is better than that really. AVG Free is ok I guess.. that's what I have.. but I dont get viruses.. mainly because I take precautions to not getting them. But yeah I would use either AVG free, or Avast. Both will get the jobs done, and won't inject viruses into your system and then find them so that you will think it's working.. like norton will... and they wont hog up enormous system resources either.
Have a link my brother - http://avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html
you can go ahead and delete that symantec crap
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: Ripple]
#5269899 - 02/06/06 03:24 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ripple said: What's a heuristic scanner priz?
in laymans terms, it's a program that makes a lot of guesses as to whats a virus and whats not, it requires a bit more input from you but it will help you to become more familliar with your computer, heuristic scanning engines work on the principle that viruses will usually use certain "tricks" or methods of infecting, and therefore if a program looks like it might be using those tricks, there is a possibility that the program is a virus. theres also the possibility that its not thats where google comes in handy, simply type the file name into google and it will give results on the file size and if its a file thats had known infections or known to be a virus
http://www.f-prot.com/products/
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: Prisoner#1]
#5270001 - 02/06/06 03:48 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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If it requires input form me.....well i'll probably end up deleting Microsoft word or something!
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: Ripple]
#5270028 - 02/06/06 03:55 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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AVG is a very good anti-virus program, well worth the 30 some odd dollars. It's probably the best AV suite going right now. (I know, I sound like an ad.) If you go here you can see an explanation of how it works.
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: Ripple]
#5270032 - 02/06/06 03:56 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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I've used AVG Free for years, and it's caught everything that's been thrown at it. Plus, they update it almost daily. All in all a very good AV!
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: Ripple]
#5270074 - 02/06/06 04:08 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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I personally use McAfee, it's very solid. Symantec (Nortons) is very solid also, had it for years before switching to McAfee.
AVG is pretty nice. Kaspersky is very good also.
Another top of the line scanner is PC-cillin by Trend Micro
There are so many scanners out there now it's hard to choose one. However as long as you keep your definitions updated you should be fine.
Some other free AntiVirus software:
AntiVir
BitDefender
avast! free edition
ClamAV
There are also a few free online scanners that you can use to double check your PC:
Housecall by Trend Micro
Karspersky Online Virus Scanner
Panda ActiveScan
BitDefender
eTrust
Freedom
Jotti's Malware Scan
I'd keep Symantec and use the free online scanners to double check once a month.
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avg is the best free anti virus updates daily.
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: onetime]
#5270140 - 02/06/06 04:22 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: onetime]
#5270159 - 02/06/06 04:27 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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"symantec is teh devil.. get rid of it. " Norton was awful and was a pain in the ass and then installed AVG free and it caught over 200 problems (viruses, worms,trojons etc). I use AVG with spybot and I have been doing good every since.
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: Ripple]
#5270175 - 02/06/06 04:33 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ripple said: If it requires input form me.....well i'll probably end up deleting Microsoft word or something!
hahahaha.. my wife tried some online porn finder on my system, it deleted a shit load of important files and put a couple viruses on it, it searched for files with certain letter combinations like 'ass' so assets.doc was dumped
fprot is damned good, I'll see if I can get a current copy for you to try out
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: Prisoner#1]
#5270237 - 02/06/06 04:49 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Prisoner#1 said: the best is f-prot, I've used it for many years, it's a heuristic scanner

very small footprint, very effective and very little user intervention needed
ideal for Ripple's
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: Ripple]
#5270484 - 02/06/06 05:36 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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In my experience, the main advantage of free software like AVG and Avast! is that they act like programs, not "security suites". I absolutely hate the word "suite" when applied to software, it guarantees massive bloat. I want to install the programs I want, and get them to perform the functions I want. You can blow suites up your ass.
Also, uninstalling some of the major security suites can be a bitch. They take over your system and try to act as firewalls, AVs, anti-adware, network guards and system monitors all in one, and as a result integrate themselves heavily with your system.
Get the fuck rid of Symantec and Norton :thumbsup:
Avast! is really pretty good.
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: OJK]
#5270705 - 02/06/06 06:16 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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What do you guys think of ZoneAlarm?
I use it for my firewall and AV...it seems to do a pretty good job.
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: kindadank]
#5270975 - 02/06/06 07:17 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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In my experience with it.. it does the job, but is a system resource hog.
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: kindadank]
#5271062 - 02/06/06 07:46 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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kindadank said: What do you guys think of ZoneAlarm?
I use it for my firewall and AV...it seems to do a pretty good job.
it used to be great till late 2003 when they started that bogus shit I forgot something that grc said it wasnt 100% anynoumas any more. and like mentioned befor it uses a lot of ram. But all winblows progies do windows likes it that way.http://www.kerio.com/ is the best free fire wall fuck its the best paid for one too. I wouldn't use windows with out.
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: blink]
#5273269 - 02/07/06 12:29 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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blinkidiot said:
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Prisoner#1 said: the best is f-prot, I've used it for many years, it's a heuristic scanner

very small footprint, very effective and very little user intervention needed
ideal for Ripple's
Sounds good!
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: Ripple]
#5273294 - 02/07/06 12:36 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Hey Ripple! I hope things are well, in your world. The family sends their love. We feel like we have known you for a long time, now. You are like so many of our people that we feel kindred with you.
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: blissedout]
#5273304 - 02/07/06 12:38 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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Same to you and yours .......Much love!
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: Ripple]
#5273423 - 02/07/06 01:02 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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AVG is one of the best, for sure. id ask on a computer forum, not a magic mushroom forum if i were you. lol.
www.motherboards.org is good.
AVG, avast, zone alarm, cc cleaner, spybot search and destroy etc... are all good tools.
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: duggan18]
#5273466 - 02/07/06 01:14 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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IMO i think the best combo to protect, and clean, spyware and virii is this.
AVG scanner Ad aware for spyware scanning Spybot for spyware blocking Microsofts anti spyware tool for real time blocking.
Ever since i got rid of mcaffee (god damn ill never go back, never realized how much of a resource hog it was) and put on AVG my system has been running tons faster. The other programs ive been using for a long while now and i never see a lick of spyware and i cant even remember the last time i had a virus.
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: duggan18]
#5273891 - 02/07/06 03:21 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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duggan18 said: AVG is one of the best, for sure. id ask on a computer forum, not a magic mushroom forum if i were you. lol.
www.motherboards.org is good.
AVG, avast, zone alarm, cc cleaner, spybot search and destroy etc... are all good tools.
These are the only forums I post on, why would I spend time on a computer forum, I don't even like computers.
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Re: Best Anit Virus [Re: Ripple]
#5274030 - 02/07/06 04:13 PM (17 years, 11 months ago) |
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I use Norton's with ZoneAlarm. zero problems so I recommend them both. norton does an excellent job of real-time protection, which im not sure the free version of AVG provides.
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