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Title: anyone know any decent free antivirus to download
Post by: richywilts on March 11, 2013, 09:33:26 pm
as title says
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Post by: Smudgeoff Cleaning Services on March 11, 2013, 09:37:12 pm
AVG
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Post by: Mike @ Facelift on March 11, 2013, 09:39:28 pm
Comodo

Malware Bytes is a pretty good anti malware too
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Post by: elite mike on March 11, 2013, 09:39:58 pm
i have been using microsofts   free one for the past 2 years no probs

great bit of kit and does not slow your pc down  8)
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Post by: John pearce on March 11, 2013, 09:42:04 pm
avast
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Post by: Perfect Windows on March 11, 2013, 09:52:26 pm
AVG

AVG missed a huge, serious, old infection (that should have been covered months before) for me.  I went from big supporter of AVG to avast after that.  Avast seems not to have missed anything so far.
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Post by: Nathanael Jones on March 11, 2013, 10:11:05 pm
Avast.
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Post by: [GQC] Tim on March 11, 2013, 10:20:16 pm
AVG is terrible.

Eset Smart Security is the best one, as it picks up everything, defends against everything, and has got a tiny system footprint. 3Mb in memory.
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Post by: g.brookes on March 11, 2013, 10:33:37 pm
easy mate just buy a mac
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Post by: MATT BATEMAN (OWC) on March 11, 2013, 10:51:56 pm
+1
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Post by: robert mitchell on March 11, 2013, 10:54:06 pm
The microsoft one works best with windows and its free .
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Post by: richywilts on March 11, 2013, 11:00:52 pm
just trying the microsoft one now
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Post by: elite mike on March 11, 2013, 11:03:44 pm
just trying the microsoft one now

its brilliant  8)

since ive been using it my kids have put it on their laptops  and have had no probs  8)
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Post by: formb on March 11, 2013, 11:34:21 pm
AVG used to be king.

A programmer friend of mine reckons all antivirus programmes are a con. He says that they tend to be more debilitating to your computer than the viruses.....


.....depends what you browse I suppose.
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Post by: richywilts on March 11, 2013, 11:47:25 pm
yeah ive had avast and avg i think on previous laptops which friends have downloaded and found laptops seems to slow down after downloading them
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Post by: MATT BATEMAN (OWC) on March 11, 2013, 11:54:18 pm
Problem is, best anti-virus in the world don't stop laptop being nicked. :-)
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Post by: richywilts on March 11, 2013, 11:58:56 pm
Problem is, best anti-virus in the world don't stop laptop being nicked. :-)

thats why it comes home with me every night now an get backed up to two different usbs!!!
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Post by: bobplum on March 12, 2013, 08:04:33 am
just trying the microsoft one now

is this the defender one,if so its basic,so if you dont do a lot of internet searching its ok.
AVG i thought was terrible
Anti-malawarebytes is very good for doing a sweep and getting rid of existing problems and its free to download with updates
i have norton 2013 and find its very good not had any problems

also you may want to go in to settings and adjust the internet security setting to medium or high,if its not allready
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Post by: *Hector* on March 12, 2013, 08:09:03 am
The Microsoft Security Essentials is the one that they are on about I think Bob..

It is very good, and unlike Norton (which has not been mentioned) does not slow down the computer at all, is free, and is regularly updated for free too...

Defender is just the basic firewall that windows gives you.
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Post by: robertphil on March 12, 2013, 08:23:01 am
avg  has been good to me . i had norton before that , paid 50quid per year and had no problem with that either . norton support was also very good to me ,somebody in America logged right into my lappy and tried to sort  out a mess once too .
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Post by: C o z y on March 12, 2013, 08:38:10 am
I think someone has got confused about search engines. there's Google, Yahoo, and for mongs, there's CIU.
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Post by: MATT BATEMAN (OWC) on March 12, 2013, 08:43:06 am
I did a search for 'MONG' on google and it said Crispy P. Bacon, Guurmany, Rug Muncher and f@ggot.
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Post by: bobplum on March 12, 2013, 08:44:44 am
The Microsoft Security Essentials is the one that they are on about I think Bob..

It is very good, and unlike Norton (which has not been mentioned) does not slow down the computer at all, is free, and is regularly updated for free too...

Defender is just the basic firewall that windows gives you.

yes sorry,i have used essentials as well but when i was running it ,it didnt stop a lot of malware from getting thru so down loaded the anti malawarebytes and then Norton and everything has been fine
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Post by: C o z y on March 12, 2013, 08:54:54 am
I did a search for 'MONG' on google and it said Crispy P. Bacon, Guurmany, Rug Muncher and f@ggot.

I know where you live  ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: MATT BATEMAN (OWC) on March 12, 2013, 09:07:13 am
Am I going to have to get another restraining order?


 :P