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+---- Thread: Searching for a good anti-virus (/showthread.php?tid=10703)
Searching for a good anti-virus - kingvaillant - 07-26-2008
Any suggestions? I can pay for one too
As long as it works with FL
THX
Searching for a good anti-virus - Manni - 07-26-2008
I'm using Avira AntiVir
Works good and is free, you can upgrade it too (costs).
Searching for a good anti-virus - Generation - 07-26-2008
Panda. theres a free trial version, its good and I'd like to use it but I can't be stuffed frigging round with the fire wall settings.
Searching for a good anti-virus - Othman - 07-26-2008
You could try the trial version of Avast as well.
Searching for a good anti-virus - 13CentKiller - 07-26-2008
Vista or XP?
Vista: AVG Free edition or Bit Defender
XP: Sophos (PAY) or Avast! (FREE)
:cool:
Searching for a good anti-virus - Leo - 07-26-2008
AVG? Curse you for leading this young man astray...the best Anti-Virus (that doesn't slow your damned computer down, curse you Norton!!) is
ESET NOD32. I use it on a regular basis back home and it's settings are really easy to configure and it's real easy to use.
Just check it out if you want. It's the best in my opinion.
...and 13cent, I'm hunting you down and blowing you out of the sky when I get back to the states for even mentioning AVG.
~Leo
Searching for a good anti-virus - Generation - 07-26-2008
AVG steals your your processing power.
Searching for a good anti-virus - 13CentKiller - 07-26-2008
' Wrote:...and 13cent, I'm hunting you down and blowing you out of the sky when I get back to the states for even mentioning AVG.
Have fun...But I could probably list 10 things why to use AVG. Oh, what do you know? Here they are...
1. Update manager uses bandwidth according to what your doing. When I'm in Freelancer, AVG will check and download at 50KB/s but if I'm in the desktop, it will go full-speed.
2. The updated AVG is probably the only Anti-Virus I know that can fully utalise the Intel Centreno/Core2Duo V-Pro technology.
3. The resident sheild, link checker, anti-spyware, web-sheild and anti-virus use next to no memory.
4. My machine benchmarks the same when its running compaired to when its not. No decrease in performance.
5. ANNOYANCE LEVEL 0! It doesn't have a stupid game mode that is extra loose on ports and firewall crap! Its great. Avast, Bit-Defender and NOD32 are HORRIBLE for that!
6. With Vista, it works with Freelancer and every other game I play.
7. The registration lasts 3 years, not 1. I hate 1 year registrations. its a rip-off. AVG is cheap as chips.
8. Their help desk is instant. They reply to emails in minutes not in 3 days.
9. Every abnormal operation doggy website and other activity's and things that it has done is logged and saved. Not many would care, but its important to me.
10. AVG halts your connection until all functions are online. Once your system is idoling, and start-up programs are initiated, it will updated. So you don't notice any kind of slow down or lag in game.
Besides. Sophos is the best Anti-Virus known to man right now in my opinion. If you have the money and really want to be safe...Use that!:cool:
Searching for a good anti-virus - Jinx - 07-26-2008
i use AVG, too - it indeed slows down the computer pretty much ( especially when you run spybot alongside, which i do ) - but its quite reliable. - i haven t had any serious attacks on the computer ever... provided, i run the update each day.
so, my computer protection is:
- windows firewall on high security settings
- internet 128bit encryption / decryption
- anti-vir classic
- spybot teatimer
i don t think anything will penetrate that protection. - and if something does... the person attempting will be utterly disappointed, cause there is nothing on the computer of any value, except a few essays for the university:laugh:
Searching for a good anti-virus - Internity - 07-26-2008
I use McAfee Enterprise I recomend it to you . You wont regret it. And Freelancer works with it no problems for me. Its a bit expensive but worth money ! ;)