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05-04-2010, 05:49 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: With my yorkies
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| Virus protection software What anti-virus software do you recommend for PC's?
__________________ He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. -- Author Unknown |
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05-04-2010, 05:51 PM | #2 |
I ♥ Armani & Chloe Donating Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Upstate NY
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| I like AVG. I am forced to have McAfee at the moment but then will be over very very shortly and then I will be back to AVG.
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05-04-2010, 05:53 PM | #3 |
And Rylee Finnegan Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Metro Detroit, MI
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| Avast worked fine for us. AVG was okay also. We used AdAware and Spybot too (I think it is).
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05-04-2010, 05:54 PM | #4 |
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| I use Avast and also Spybot.
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05-04-2010, 06:04 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: With my yorkies
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| I just dug out my old desktop that I haven't used in at least 3 years and it has outdated versions of AVG and SpyWare on it from when I used it last. Guess the good things haven't changed too much. I'm not familiar with Avast or Spybot - I'm going to read up on those before I decide. Thank you all!!
__________________ He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. -- Author Unknown |
05-04-2010, 06:08 PM | #6 | |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Delray Beach, FL
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avast! Free Antivirus - Download Software for Virus Protection The home of Spybot-S&D!
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05-04-2010, 06:46 PM | #7 |
I found Yorkie love Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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| My son is in third year college for computer programmer/analyst(so I kind of trust him) and he hooked me up with Avast and it has worked amazing.
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05-05-2010, 03:57 AM | #8 |
Izzy's Momma Too! Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Stuart, Florida
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| Another vote for Avast here I had Norton on my computers (preloaded) and ALWAYS got viruses anyway, and a ton of false positives too. Garbage! I've not had ONE virus since installing avast, it's been about 2 years now. And it's FREE
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05-05-2010, 03:59 AM | #9 | |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | Quote:
me too - used it for almost 10 years now | |
05-05-2010, 04:35 AM | #10 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: With my yorkies
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| You all are GOOD!! I road up in the elevator with my company's IT genius this morning, so I asked him this same question. He named 3 programs - Avast, AVG and another I don't remember. Once I heard the same two you all had recommended I knew I was set. I asked about spyware and he recommended AdAware, SpyBot and a couple of others but you guys had nailed it again. Thank you!!
__________________ He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. -- Author Unknown |
05-05-2010, 04:44 AM | #11 | |
I found Yorkie love Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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__________________ Cathy www.furbabyfashionhouse.ca Handmade clothing for your furboys and furgirls. | |
05-05-2010, 10:37 AM | #12 |
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| Webroot is real good. So is Norton and McAfee. Webroot Internet Security essentails is what I use. My PC is as clean as my Yorkies Teeth! |
05-06-2010, 03:57 AM | #13 | |
And Rylee Finnegan Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Metro Detroit, MI
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__________________ Crystal, Ellie May (RIP), Rylee Finnegan, and Gracie Boo🐶 | |
05-06-2010, 04:09 AM | #14 |
Yorkie Kisses are the Best! Donating Member | I had an IT guy at work - he referred us to Malwarebytes - I used to use A Squared.....it doesn't hurt to have several AVG Spybot Malwarebytes and for online scans and fixes - Trendmicro "Housecall" - that is a great program that my cable people recommended and I found it picked up stuff when my son messed up my puter - there's too many different ways now for those jerks to mess up our computers ! You need complete protection these days besides the normal virus protection - it sucks doesn't it ? |
05-06-2010, 04:26 AM | #15 | |
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Do you find that having all these installed/running slows down your computer much when you're online? It doesn't really matter, I'm a firm believer in having good protection these days.
__________________ He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. -- Author Unknown | |
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