Leekbrookgull
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Any NSC,users running AVG free? If so how do you find it works for you? 
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Biscuit said:
google search ya moron
used AVG once and it seemed alright, until I tried playing EverQuestII and it would'nt let me! Norton works decently on my PC so thats good enough for me. Every PC is different and virus/firewall programs react differently to everything, just try it out and see what happens is my advice!
Juan Albion
Chicken Sniffer 3rd Class
I use AVG on one PC and Norton on the others. I have never had a problem with AVG and it certainly doesn't seem to slow things down the way Norton does. The only drawback is a general unease over relying on something that doesn't cost you anything.
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Leekbrookgull said:Any NSC,users running AVG free? If so how do you find it works for you?
its good
Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
I use AVG and a ZoneAlarm Firewall.
Happy with both
Happy with both
227 BHA
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Buzza said:
Same here - no probs
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Use it on mine and have no problems running with it at all. Its not system resource intensive like Norton's and regularly updateable. *Touch wood* i haven't had a virus get past it and its grabbed 2 or 3 that have been incoming. Only problem i do encounter is with its email scanner. Doesn't like to work in conjunction with mailwasher for some reason, but its no biggy tbh.
Grizz
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Wardy
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Buzza said:
Same here on both my PC's never had a problem and I find that AVG gets updates out faster then some of the paid for virus checkers.
Bluejuice
Lazy as a rug on Valium
Not a bad little program, and easy on the system resources which is always good.
I recently downloaded a trial of NOD32 as I've been relying on AVG for several years now and felt it was time to give something else a go.
NOD32 is a bit cooler and slightly more integrated with Windows, but you do have to pay for it (unless you were to p2p it but that would be immoral of course).
Never had any troubles with AVG though. I don't think there's a better free alternative
I recently downloaded a trial of NOD32 as I've been relying on AVG for several years now and felt it was time to give something else a go.
NOD32 is a bit cooler and slightly more integrated with Windows, but you do have to pay for it (unless you were to p2p it but that would be immoral of course).
Never had any troubles with AVG though. I don't think there's a better free alternative
AVG has my vote as well.
I supplement it with an online scan every 4 - 6 weeks at panda or trend, but nothing has slipped by AVG yet that the others have found.
Word of warning, Never install more than one anti virus proggie on your PC at the same time.
I supplement it with an online scan every 4 - 6 weeks at panda or trend, but nothing has slipped by AVG yet that the others have found.
Word of warning, Never install more than one anti virus proggie on your PC at the same time.
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Wardywonderland said:
how do you know that?They could be playing catch up intead.Some of these top viruses always seem to try and hack Nortons and not others.If you use all the programs for Nortons it tends to slow your pc down alot.I use McAfee
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Buzza said:
Same here - been using AVG for a couple of years now and it's always done the job for me.
A couple of minuses:
The free edition isn't very configurable, so you can only schedule a full disc scan every day at a certain time.
If you've got multiple users on XP, then the email scanner doesn't like it
But apart from that, it sits on my pc trapping viruses and regularly updating itself quietly in the background.
Shizuoka Dolphin
NSC M0DERATOR
I don't have any kind of virus protection, becuase I'm foolhardy!
Shizuoka Dolphin
NSC M0DERATOR
Just installed it. No longer can I be accused of being foolhardy.
king Wombat
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binky said:
not strictly true - you can have a trojan scanner working alongside it (and probably should) I've been using Ewido which is also free and between them have no problems.
Used to run Norton internet security but got completely fed up with it due to its resource grabbing and had some problems with the firewall.