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  1. PHX_Rises PHX_Rises is offline

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    Jan 16th, 2008 (1/16/2008 11:29pm)

    Is there a good antivirus software that you use that doesn't grind your comp. to a halt and/or popup all the time with alerts?
  2. Saintsfan1 Saintsfan1 is offline

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    Jan 16th, 2008 (1/16/2008 11:31pm) in reply to PHX_Rises

    AVG FTW!
  3. kayak101187 kayak101187 is offline

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    Jan 16th, 2008 (1/16/2008 11:31pm) in reply to PHX_Rises

    super anti spyware
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    Jan 16th, 2008 (1/16/2008 11:40pm) in reply to PHX_Rises

    Robituson
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    Jan 16th, 2008 (1/16/2008 11:50pm) in reply to PHX_Rises

    2nd AVG.

    Found a deal on slickdeals.net last week. AVG Pro for free if you sign up for a boltfile account (online storage site). I just used a fake email and it worked.

    http://www.boltfile.com/download/926e7a4e
  6. Willywoo Willywoo is offline

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    Jan 16th, 2008 (1/16/2008 11:55pm) in reply to jeremyw

    Innoculate
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    Jan 17th, 2008 (1/17/2008 12:03am) in reply to PHX_Rises

    Here is a good one that is free with no download required, do it at night though it takes a while:

    http://housecall.trendmicro.com/en/p...c-legal-v6.htm
     
  8. LVpokerdealer LVpokerdealer is offline

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    Jan 17th, 2008 (1/17/2008 12:18am) in reply to Iplaythabored

    Spyware Terminator and AD Aware SE Personal

    Both free and my computer runs as fast as it did when I got it 2 1/2 yrs ago.
  9. PHX_Rises PHX_Rises is offline

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    Jan 17th, 2008 (1/17/2008 12:26am) in reply to PHX_Rises

    thx for the feedback....i'll try a couple of these
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  10. jimmycrackcorn jimmycrackcorn is offline

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    Jan 17th, 2008 (1/17/2008 1:12am) in reply to PHX_Rises

    I like Avast! Pro. Free of charge.

    www.avast.com
  11. PHX_Rises PHX_Rises is offline

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    Jan 18th, 2008 (1/18/2008 12:19am) in reply to PHX_Rises

    So I d/l'd the trial version of AVG and it absolutely fucked my computer up. It put all these firewalls and things up that made it where I could not connect to internet or even enable my wireless card. I am not good with computers, so I really don't know what it did.

    So, time to try a 2nd one out I suppose.

    Has anyone upgraded from XP to Vista? Is Vista more secure?
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  12. LVpokerdealer LVpokerdealer is offline

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    Jan 18th, 2008 (1/18/2008 12:32am) in reply to PHX_Rises

    Dude....seriously.....AD AWARE SE PERSONAL, and SPYWARE TERMINATOR. both free, make sure you click on FULL SYSTEM scan on both.
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    Jan 18th, 2008 (1/18/2008 12:39am) in reply to PHX_Rises

    AVG and Windows Defender are the absolute best free programs you can get.
  14. PHX_Rises PHX_Rises is offline

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    Jan 18th, 2008 (1/18/2008 12:42am) in reply to LVpokerdealer

    do you use both of them at the same time or those are 2 options--pick 1?
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  15. PHX_Rises PHX_Rises is offline

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    Jan 18th, 2008 (1/18/2008 12:43am) in reply to djoshaz

    AVG destroyed my settings somehow and i'm not good enough to figure out how to get them back. I am trying the LVpokerdealer recommendations next.
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  16. PHX_Rises PHX_Rises is offline

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    Jan 18th, 2008 (1/18/2008 1:27am) in reply to PHX_Rises

    ad aware full system scan--143 infections. nice.
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  17. jeremyw jeremyw is offline

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    Jan 18th, 2008 (1/18/2008 7:59am) in reply to PHX_Rises

    Adaware & Spyware terminator are great programs but they are not Antivirus software. They will get remove the SPYWARE from your machine, but you still have a virus risk if you don't have a antivirus program installed.

    Sorry to hear that AVG messed up your settings. I've been using it for years with no issues. Whatever you do, DO NOT UPGRADE TO VISTA. That is the biggest piece of shit Operating System I've ever used. The commercials are correct and you will be changing back to XP before long.

    Maybe try using the free version of AVG. http://free.grisoft.com/doc/download...virus/us/frt/0

    It won't install all the anti-spyware/firewall extras that are on the pro version.
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