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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: hercules on 04 January 2012, 20:25:20
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my mate who isnt computer literate was given his dads old lappy,cant remember which version of windows it is,its 512mb ram and 40gb hard drive and tomorrow im goint to set it up for him and cant decide which protection to put on it.with the low ram i believe avg will slow it down and as for the others i dont know.possibly avast,can anybody recommend one.for a few months hes gonna be using a dongle then he will be having sky
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Go for AVG or Avast. Both free and neither are ram hungry :y
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think il try avast it sound easier and more simple :y
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hes not downs but he was starved of oxygen in the womb and hes a tad slower than normal peeps so i want something simple he doesnt have to worry about and all he will be looking at is leeds united/horse racing/youtube and boobies ;D
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microsoft security essentials.. free and dont bring the system to its knees..
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microsoft security essentials.. free and dont bring the system to its knees..
ive looked at that cem and its a possibility but some say its not very efficient,but as you say doesnt slow the system downa nd for his browsing it may be ok :y
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AVG - install and forget!
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I use Avast on 2 laptops and touch wood up to now now problems at all!
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Famous last words :(
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Avast for me, I find AVG uses too much CPU time
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Avast for me, I find AVG uses too much CPU time
Agreed - used to use AVG, now on Avast on all my systems - no issues.
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I agree with Avast. I used to use AVG but it slowed things down a lot. Avast does the business, keeps out the way unless it finds a duff site, and is very good at getting rid of them. I also keep Spybot on as well just to make sure, although it doesn't get used often.
Ken
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microsoft security essentials.. free and dont bring the system to its knees..
ive looked at that cem and its a possibility but some say its not very efficient,but as you say doesnt slow the system downa nd for his browsing it may be ok :y
I use security essentials alongside AVG and find it very good. It does require some manual inputs from you once a week but very easy to use. It does only work on Vista and Windows 7 though. Can't find a version for windows XP.
And a friend tells me it works well on boobies sites :y
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I'm of the opinion that the free ones are better than nothing, but you get what you pay for.
AVG and Avast also sell full versions - so you get better protection.
I used to use Macfee until it screwed my machine up with a download many years ago.
Since then I've always subscribed to Norton, can use it on 3 machines, and never had any problems.
In use now for over a decade.
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I'm using Avira on mine,also free and no issues to date :y
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I use avira and have malware malbytes. never failed
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avg , brings the system to halt.. lots of processes..
avast works fairly ok but virii list is poor and one day decides to give up..
mcaffee, the system belong to it not to you!
norton, try uninstall and see what happens ;D
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avg , brings the system to halt.. lots of processes..
avast works fairly ok but virii list is poor and one day decides to give up..
mcaffee, the system belong to it not to you!
norton, try uninstall and see what happens ;D
Never had a problem using their unistall tool.
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avg , brings the system to halt.. lots of processes..
avast works fairly ok but virii list is poor and one day decides to give up..
mcaffee, the system belong to it not to you!
norton, try uninstall and see what happens ;D
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. ;D
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Just to add my 2 penn'orth
I have used Norton....very invasive
I have use McAfee too resource hungry
I have used AVG free, good but as stated a tad hungry
I am now using Avast free, unobtrusive and good.
All the above on XP and as I have no qualms about it, avast is very good for the boobies sites :y
Jon
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avg , brings the system to halt.. lots of processes..
avast works fairly ok but virii list is poor and one day decides to give up..
mcaffee, the system belong to it not to you!
norton, try uninstall and see what happens ;D
Never had a problem using their unistall tool.
some years ago , an uninstall mess up the system disk so that I can never get the data back again..
that was enough..
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I had a complete mare with Norton a couple of years ago, and it wouldnt let any new hardware work on my computer, when I bought a scanner, I had a complete row with the shop that sold it as it wouldnt work on my pc, but worked fine in the shop, so we swapped it for an HP scanner, and still had problems, so spoke to a computer matey of mine, who asked if I had Norton AV on the computer, to which I said yes, and he said that Norton is renowned (or it was then) for blocking new things on a computer as it thinks everything is an invasion.
I dumped Norton in favour of AVG Free (currently running 2011 version), and I've never had any problems since. However, I will agree, if its doing a scan or update on an older system, it will slow the computer down, but my laptop (bought May 2010) has got about 3gb of memory, so its not an issue.
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If you download Nortons uninstall tool, you should not have any problems.
You cannot unistall it through control panel.
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Norton - I can never recommend. Resource hog, and frequently needs rebuild to uninstall.
McAfee - the worse of the resource hogs. Won't work in 256Mb anyway. No chance.
AVG - my current preferred option, due to less nags
Avast - Nags too much to buy it. Then complains that you breach the licence if it sees 2 seperate PCs on same broadband line. I use it myself on a single desktop, but cannot recommend.
MS SE - seems to work well enough, but not use it enough to recommend.
256Mb isn't really enough for XP SP3. And XP needs SP3, and the 100 or so subsequent updates. RAM is cheap ;)
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Norton - Some years ago paid for a renewal, went wrong a month later, 'This version is no longer supported'!!!
Used AVG for a while, then found it was too hungry, now use Avast which is good, and not intrusive. Also ZoneAlarm firewall. Only use the free ones.
When I bought a laptop for SWMBO with Norton on 3 months free, I uninstalled it straight away and loaded Avast also.
Touch wood, no nasty problems so far, and I've had this Dell desktop for about 8 years.
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I've always used norton never had any problems with it :y
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hes not downs but he was starved of oxygen in the womb and hes a tad slower than normal peeps so i want something simple he doesnt have to worry about and all he will be looking at is leeds united/horse racing/youtube and boobies ;D
you need to put a virus on it ;D
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microsoft security essentials.. free and dont bring the system to its knees..
ive looked at that cem and its a possibility but some say its not very efficient,but as you say doesnt slow the system downa nd for his browsing it may be ok :y
I use security essentials alongside AVG and find it very good. It does require some manual inputs from you once a week but very easy to use. It does only work on Vista and Windows 7 though. Can't find a version for windows XP.
And a friend tells me it works well on boobies sites :y
Microsoft Security Essentials is available on XP and above, its the same download for all of them as far as I know.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/products/security-essentials
I put that on an XP machine yesterday when I finished rebuilding a friends old laptop. I use MSE on all my families machines (4 laptops and 4 desktops) and never had a problem with any of them. I also use Malwarebytes Antimalware and Spybot Search and Destroy once per week on each machine, they rarely find more than a couple of tracking cookies.
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Norton - I can never recommend. Resource hog, and frequently needs rebuild to uninstall.
McAfee - the worse of the resource hogs. Won't work in 256Mb anyway. No chance.
AVG - my current preferred option, due to less nags
Avast - Nags too much to buy it. Then complains that you breach the licence if it sees 2 seperate PCs on same broadband line. I use it myself on a single desktop, but cannot recommend.
MS SE - seems to work well enough, but not use it enough to recommend.
256Mb isn't really enough for XP SP3. And XP needs SP3, and the 100 or so subsequent updates. RAM is cheap ;)
Over the last decade or so, I've never had a problem.
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microsoft security essentials.. free and dont bring the system to its knees..
ive looked at that cem and its a possibility but some say its not very efficient,but as you say doesnt slow the system downa nd for his browsing it may be ok :y
I use security essentials alongside AVG and find it very good. It does require some manual inputs from you once a week but very easy to use. It does only work on Vista and Windows 7 though. Can't find a version for windows XP.
And a friend tells me it works well on boobies sites :y
Microsoft Security Essentials is available on XP and above, its the same download for all of them as far as I know.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/products/security-essentials
I put that on an XP machine yesterday when I finished rebuilding a friends old laptop. I use MSE on all my families machines (4 laptops and 4 desktops) and never had a problem with any of them. I also use Malwarebytes Antimalware and Spybot Search and Destroy once per week on each machine, they rarely find more than a couple of tracking cookies.
Thanks Shelby, I will give it a try tonight on my XP gaming machine. :y
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microsoft security essentials.. free and dont bring the system to its knees..
ive looked at that cem and its a possibility but some say its not very efficient,but as you say doesnt slow the system downa nd for his browsing it may be ok :y
I use security essentials alongside AVG and find it very good. It does require some manual inputs from you once a week but very easy to use. It does only work on Vista and Windows 7 though. Can't find a version for windows XP.
And a friend tells me it works well on boobies sites :y
Microsoft Security Essentials is available on XP and above, its the same download for all of them as far as I know.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/products/security-essentials
I put that on an XP machine yesterday when I finished rebuilding a friends old laptop. I use MSE on all my families machines (4 laptops and 4 desktops) and never had a problem with any of them. I also use Malwarebytes Antimalware and Spybot Search and Destroy once per week on each machine, they rarely find more than a couple of tracking cookies.
Thanks Shelby, I will give it a try tonight on my XP gaming machine. :y
Nice one Shelby, just installed it on my XP gamer machine running IE8. It is working fine now. Rarely use this machine using a web browser, but do use it for online gaming.
Thanks again.