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I need a good virus protection program for a family laptop

someguy76008someguy76008 Registered User regular
edited April 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
Suggestions?

Im sleepy
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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited April 2007
    Avast, ye swabbies! Man the poop deck!

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  • KoekjesKoekjes Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Bitdefender is a good one.

    http://www.bitdefender.com/

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  • tardcoretardcore Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I second the avast!

    Also, AVG and Spybot for good measure. They usually catch what the other misses.

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  • PhilodoxPhilodox Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I use AVG. Small-ish memory footprint and good enough protection.

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  • FristleFristle Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Virus Bulletin is the "consumer reports" of the AntiVirus world. They last did a comparative review of AV programs for Windows XP in June 2006. That might give you an idea of which AV programs actually work.

    Among those that actually work 100% of the time, there are few I'd recommend. I have had to deal with Symantec Norton AV (installing that is the single worst thing you can do for your system performance), and McAfee VirusScan Enterprise (mostly painless I guess, although it does have one annoying bug on a Windows 2000 machine of mine).

    AOL licensed the strongest AV out there (Kaspersky) and put it in a freeware product that is very well reviewed. Might be worth a try.

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  • SarathaiSarathai Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Fristle wrote: »
    AOL licensed the strongest AV out there (Kaspersky) and put it in a freeware product that is very well reviewed. Might be worth a try.

    I've put that on one of my older computers, and it seems good so far. Only slows things down about as much as avast! does (not much at all). It lacks web filtering, but that's not a huge loss. Just means it's slightly easier for people to Last Measure you if you aren't careful.

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