Ninehigh
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 06:06 PM |
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Reccomend me a darn good antivirus
Missus is currently reinstalling windows after our antivirus has failed to notice TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED counts of the w32/ramnit.e virus, so that
one's out of the window...
Seeing as we're now prepared to actually pay for one (although let's not go mad!) what can get rid of this (so we can remove it from the
second drive and keep all the baby pictures we were backing up)
All suggestions will go down well thanks 
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dlatch
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 06:16 PM |
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avast 
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chrsgrain
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 06:17 PM |
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A Mac
Spoing! - the sound of an irony meter breaking...
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T66
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 06:18 PM |
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Avast free -
Not a resource hog, just works ......
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gottabedone
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 06:28 PM |
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Defo Avast and see what the NOD online scanner finds (although this
isn't as good as it used to be)
Steve
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Bare
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 06:31 PM |
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actually microsoft 'essentials' as found in win 7 is likely the very best antivirus available and it's FREE. there are, as always,
'better' ones, but in server versions... for serious coin.
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GRRR
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 06:37 PM |
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I recommend Norton Internet Security 2012, its not the resource boat anchor it used to be and check out reviews on the net, it gets the best detection
rates. Pc World has it less than half price at the mo too
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britishtrident
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 06:38 PM |
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Avira Premium --- note the free version is also good but the update servers for the free version are over loaded
Avira also do a free bootable CD/DVD as an ISO file that you can down load burn to CD/DVD and then boot from, it is based on Linux so will
clear even the nastiest deep routed Windows virus.
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russbost
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 06:40 PM |
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Another vote for Avast - it simply sits quietly in the background & works!
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 06:51 PM |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB14ey7uO1s
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designer
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 07:06 PM |
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Avast
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NeilP
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 07:14 PM |
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AVG Free - but I no nuffin about it other than it works...
If you pay peanuts...
Mentale, yar? Yar, mentale!
Drive it like you stole it!
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wombat
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 07:22 PM |
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We have 3 laptops on Bullgaurd, always picks up issues and if you cant resolve their backup assistance is good.
Only my experience....
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AndyW
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 07:30 PM |
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I tried several free one's and since going to Norton on new computer had no problems
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IainL
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 07:44 PM |
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Another vote for Bullguard, been using it for 3 years now and no issues.
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Peteff
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 08:26 PM |
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We switched to Microsoft security essentials last year as AVG was causing problems for some reason and hanging the computer and if you can get
something free from Microsoft why not ? Anyway it's been good so far and detects stuff as it comes in usually and requests to clean it
immediately, we've had no attacks it hasn't dealt with.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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MikeFellows
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 08:54 PM |
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they all suck
the people who make the viruses are much cleverer and better paid (most of the time) than the anti virus developers.
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pajsh
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 09:21 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by dlatch
avast
Avast +1
Had Norton and McAfee on new computers and slowed things down loads so binned them after the free (3) months ran out.
Went back to Avast and had no issues in 5 years
Also run Lavasoft Adware and Malwarebytes.
All freeeeeeeeeeeeee.
I used to be apathetic but now I just don't care.
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Andi
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 09:37 PM |
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ESET NOD32.. You pay, but its the best one I have ever used and I think i have used most.
Andi
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D Beddows
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 10:05 PM |
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Microsoft Security essentials for me as well - I've tried them ALL and would never waste my money on Norton and the other commercial ones. AGV
was alright a few years ago before it started doing too much and slowed everything down. Avast was my last one before Security Essentials and it was
ok (although the 'Avast Security Database Has Been Updated Message' gets old quite quickly...) Although Security Essentials is a Microsoft
program it seems to be as good as their firewall - and I quite often have to use 'evaluation' copies of software to get me out of a corner
at work which involves more than slightly dubious downloads and I don't get any problems.
I do keep a very good eye on things though which is easily as important as the antivirus you use.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 10:13 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Avira Premium --- note the free version is also good but the update servers for the free version are over loaded
Avira also do a free bootable CD/DVD as an ISO file that you can down load burn to CD/DVD and then boot from, it is based on Linux so will
clear even the nastiest deep routed Windows virus.
It was the free version of Avira that let them through.. Also it occasionally finds viruses that don't appear to exist outside of the software,
not even on their own database.
I shall pass these on and see what missus thinks
[Edited on 15/11/11 by Ninehigh]
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D Beddows
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 10:31 PM |
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with regards to the baby photos - download a copy of Linux Mint - burn it to a CD, set your PC to boot from the CD drive and restart it with the CD in
the drive. Linux Mint is fairly obvious to use if you're used to Windows and it should be pretty straightforward to copy your photos (which
aren't anywhere virus's hide) to a USB stick. Linux isn't affected by Windows viruses either btw and is free.
Then format the drive and start again...........
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 10:46 PM |
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I used to have AVG, but got fed up with the computer being hung up for hours while it updated. Changed to Avast and have never regretted it.
If I used Windoze on a regular basis then I'd probably go for the paid version of Avast, but I use Linux Mint for just about everything that
doesn't *have* to use Windoze.
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 16/11/11 at 12:15 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by D Beddows
with regards to the baby photos - download a copy of Linux Mint - burn it to a CD, set your PC to boot from the CD drive and restart it with the CD in
the drive. Linux Mint is fairly obvious to use if you're used to Windows and it should be pretty straightforward to copy your photos (which
aren't anywhere virus's hide) to a USB stick. Linux isn't affected by Windows viruses either btw and is free.
Then format the drive and start again...........
That's a good point.. I'll have to give that a try
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Ivan
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| posted on 16/11/11 at 10:59 AM |
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Slightly OT but I run different AV's on each of my machines and hope that when transferring files form one to the other that the one AV will
pick up what the other doesn't - is that a sensible thing to do?
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