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Title: Anti virus Programes.
Post by: Cumbria on 09 February 2010, 00:16:17

Ive  got Windows live one care installed but there discontinuing the product.  I was wondering what AVG or Avast where like. As i've been told there free & good.

Title: Re: Anti virus Programes.
Post by: waspy on 09 February 2010, 00:27:53

I've just finished using AVG after around three years of problem free surfing.
Go onto Computeractive's website for a free download :y

Title: Re: Anti virus Programes.
Post by: Cumbria on 09 February 2010, 00:40:39

Cheers for that. I was just a bit cautious with them being free on how good they where. When you consider how much Norton charge & such like.

Title: Re: Anti virus Programes.
Post by: Plomien on 09 February 2010, 07:17:06

I find Avast less cpu/memory intensive than AVG but whatever you use both do the job, there is a few threads on here about what is better to use.
I would also suggest spybot S&D as well for removal of spyware and a good anti phishing piece of software is rapport from trustee :y

Title: Re: Anti virus Programes.
Post by: Squealey on 09 February 2010, 07:34:35

I find Avast really slows my PC down personally, but saying that, it takes almost half an hour from initial switch on to being able to use it anyway so not sure Avast can be the only thing to blame for that.

Wish i knew what was wrong with it, its not even like the memory is more than half full (I have 2x80gb ext hard drives for the music and pictures) but i am continually getting 'windows virtual memory too low' coming up.

Tbh its got to the point that noone uses it any more and we all use the laptop.

Title: Re: Anti virus Programes.
Post by: Plomien on 09 February 2010, 07:53:19

if your pc is slow check what is on startup using msconfig or download the 30 day trial of tune up utilities2010 and use the startup editor in there as well as tweak your pc settings

Title: Re: Anti virus Programes.
Post by: Martin_1962 on 09 February 2010, 08:01:20

AVAST is pretty good and not a resource hog

Title: Re: Anti virus Programes.
Post by: dbug on 09 February 2010, 08:37:27

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AVAST is pretty good and not a resource hog

Agreed  :y

Title: Re: Anti virus Programes.
Post by: hoodjam on 09 February 2010, 08:57:31

I've got Avast after using AVG for many years. It's the best move I've ever made for it's rapid response to potential problems, plus Avast doesn't slow the machine down (unlike AVG). Because Avast doesn't come with a firewall, download the trial version of Comodo Antivirus, but only install the firewall which is also proven good and free and non-trial.