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bobby
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Anti-virus options - 10/4/2004 12:55:11
I'm looking for suggestions from the members about AV software... specifically good alternatives to Norton and McAffee.
What else do y'all use to keep your inbox safe?
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Giomanach
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RE: Anti-virus options - 10/4/2004 13:49:05
I've got ZA Security Suite 5.1 installed...AV disabled..cos it's s**t..lol...firewall works tho...
I use AVG 6 Free Edition no problems....
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RE: Anti-virus options - 10/4/2004 14:27:56
I use what I admin at work. Keeps me "up" on issues. I use Symantec corporate version 9.0.0.338.
I have found by going to their KB and searching on cegetter it will walk you through setting up the daily download as opposed to "Live Update" which is a weekly update. It made all the difference in the world. I am amazed they even use the weekly option.
I also like SOPHOS but it is much more corporate based than personal license.
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Brian
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tekola
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RE: Anti-virus options - 10/4/2004 16:45:39
I use FREE Avg from www.grisoft.com. It has been reliable for over 3 years.
Protects Outlook Express email specifically.
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Giomanach
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RE: Anti-virus options - 10/5/2004 9:39:38
Peter
I have Spysweeper 3 and Adaware 6 installed on my machine. I run Adaware, and it picks up a few, then I run Spysweeper, Spysweeper picks up Registry entries that Adaware doesn't
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Giomanach
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RE: Anti-virus options - 10/5/2004 9:59:06
Simple - They use a lot of processor, and take forever to scan files etc
Back when I used to use Internet Clean-up, having an AV program just open, background scanning, it slowed the program down, and it never picked anything up, removed that, installed Adaware 6 and Spysweeper 3, and I had thousands of files that needed removing. (And curiously enough, it saved me 20MB HDD space )
If programs clash, they will no doubt slow your computer down
Easy way to make sure with Ad/Spy/Malware removers is to run them one at a time
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Giomanach
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RE: Anti-virus options - 10/5/2004 10:09:27
Have them installed at the same time, but don't scan with them at the same time
Each one will use a slightly different algo to scan your computer, all of which use simialar components of Windows, just in different ways, hence the slow down of PC
Any clearer?
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RE: Anti-virus options - 10/5/2004 10:29:29
If running simultaneously as a background task - Yes
If one running as a background task - Not noticeable
If scanning simultaneously - Yes
If scanning with one at a time - Depends on PC specs, but generally, not noticeable with newer systems (I say newer, I mean 600Mhz and faster, with a HDD at 5400rpm)
< Message edited by Giomanach -- 10/5/2004 11:17:48 >
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RE: Anti-virus options - 10/5/2004 14:32:39
I use Spybot and Ad-Aware.
Ad-aware automatically scans when I start up the computer. Spybot does it's job running in the background though I don't notice until I use IE (surprise...nothing happends to trigger it when I use Mozilla).
Everytime I go to an MSN group in Internet Explorer Spybot pops up t tell me some Avenue A something or other is trying to download...and gives me the option to block it. I may have blocked it permanently.
I do not have any issues with spyware and they don't seem to conflict with each other. Sometimes Ad-aware scans and turns up nothing....and later, Spybot finds a couple things. Sometimes, Ad-Aware finds problems (after running IE, of course) and fixes them...then spybot finds nothing.
I never run them both at the same time. Just the fact that they've each missed something that the other picked up makes me feel pretty secure in having them both.
It would be quite a thing if one program could find ALL problems, but I find that difficult to believe.
For AV, I use AVG and it has worked fine for me. My only issue with it is it won't detect anything automatically in Thunderbird - when I used Outlook Express, the Norton that came with the machine would tell me as soon as an infected email would come in my inbox. With AVG and Thunderbird, I have to wait until I do a system scan and it finds it.
I use the Zone Alarm firewall, and it doesn't recognize AVG - it keeps nagging me - warning me that I don't have AV installed. LOL
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RE: Anti-virus options - 10/11/2004 10:55:50
For what it's worth, I use ad-aware, spybot, and spyware blaster, and avg. I only use the avg on systems that use an email program avg works with. For systems that use thunderbird (or mozilla) mail, I use avast. You do have to do some tweaking to avast to get it to scan correctly, but all the info can be found on their website, in help files, or on the thunderbird forums.
Gayle
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