Antivirus recommendations

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HI,
Can anyone recommend a good antivirus suite for Vista (Not Norton).
I am currently using the free trial of AVG Pro but just wondered what your
views on AV Products for vista are.

Regards

John
 
John said:
HI,
Can anyone recommend a good antivirus suite for Vista (Not Norton).
I am currently using the free trial of AVG Pro but just wondered what
your views on AV Products for vista are.

Regards

John
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Recommended: NOD32, Kaspersky, Avast (free).


Malke
 
I'm using McAfee Total Protection with no problems. Some have reported it
uses to many resources but not in my case.

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Free versions of either Avast or AVG.

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AVG free edition
Works on all games i tryed and
never had to turn it off or change any settings for something to work
which i had to with mc.free
 
I started using the Microsoft Live OneCare, and from what I can tell it is
pretty good; the fact that it is a microsoft product just boosts its ease of
use, and you know that it doesnt just sit along side another firewall like
AVG, but rather enhances the current firewall. I have used Norton, AVG,
BitDefender, and McAffe, and by far Microsoft's is the best. Remember, when
it comes to firewalls, it is not quantity of features, it is ease of use and
being able to trust the program.
 
HI,
Can anyone recommend a good antivirus suite for Vista (Not Norton).
I am currently using the free trial of AVG Pro but just wondered what your
views on AV Products for vista are.
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Avast (free), Kaspersky, NOD32.
 
64 bit severely limits any choice, even live one care isn't available for it.
32 bit however so far AVG was the only one that didn't lock me out of half my regular programs or remotely made any sense to the user.
One care deleted my Autodesk product registry key settings which for engineering is ridiculous.
Also locked out any VPN related job applications so I abandoned it.
Was a shame because I did sort of like it at first.
The price of $50 a year was too high as well.

HI,
Can anyone recommend a good antivirus suite for Vista (Not Norton).
I am currently using the free trial of AVG Pro but just wondered what your
views on AV Products for vista are.

Regards

John
 
John said:
HI,
Can anyone recommend a good antivirus suite for Vista (Not Norton).
I am currently using the free trial of AVG Pro but just wondered what your
views on AV Products for vista are.

Regards

John
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I prefer AVG anti malware.
 
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HI,
Can anyone recommend a good antivirus suite for Vista (Not Norton).
I am currently using the free trial of AVG Pro but just wondered what
your views on AV Products for vista are.

Regards

John
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NOD32 is very good, but it kept causing MS Flight Simulator X to crash,
so I went back to Avast.

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NOD32 is very good, but it kept causing MS Flight Simulator X to crash,
so I went back to Avast.
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I had a similar problem with NOD32 conflicting with FTP Voyager. The
solution was to go to NOD32 Control Center/IMON/Setup/Misc
tab/Exclusion/Edit and browse to C:/Program Files/Rhinosoft/FTPVoyager.exe
and add it to NOD32's exclusion list. Regards Doug.
 
Many Thanks Guys,
I'm quite happy with the AVG installed and you all seem to agree on either
avast or avg.
I also tried the Live one Care but found it to always turn itself off ?

Many Thanks Again

Regards

John
 
I run multiable computers some with Avast and some with AVG. I would
recommend AVG over Avast for only one reason. When starting up or rebooting
any of my systems Avast will slow the system down, as it will always update
itself at boot time, which sometimes is a pain. On one system it took about
5 mins to boot. I removed Avast and put in Avg and now boot time is under 1
min.

Both Antivirus programs are quite good but I am leaning towards AVG.

I run 6 computers with (1)Vista Home, (3)Premium And (2)Ultimate and 4
computers with XP Pro. I have never tried Live One Care but if it comes from
Microsoft I would rather not put all my eggs in one basket and leave it to a
third party that I can trust not to screw it up.
 
ARE YOU CRAZY! Me and my Friends all Run FSX and NOD32. none of ours crash
while playing it. they play for more than 6 hours, (They put Auto-pilot on,
so they can leave) So i don't know whats up with your system, cuz i been
using NOD32 since November 2006, and i had no issues or crashes.
 
Nick said:
ARE YOU CRAZY! Me and my Friends all Run FSX and NOD32. none of ours crash
while playing it. they play for more than 6 hours, (They put Auto-pilot
on,
so they can leave) So i don't know whats up with your system, cuz i been
using NOD32 since November 2006, and i had no issues or crashes.
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No gamer worth his salt runs an AV program in the background while gaming.
 
No gamer worth his salt runs an AV program in the background while gaming.
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Never had a problem with online/realtime games with AV running in the
background, they don't have an impact on the real-time functions.

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Yoshi said:
NOD32, Kapersky are the best ones. Free ones are NOT the best....personal
Experiences.
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No, but AVG is still decent and I don't have to pay a yearly subscription.
I'm a cheap bastage and will always use free software if I can.
 
Leythos said:
Never had a problem with online/realtime games with AV running in the
background, they don't have an impact on the real-time functions.
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They have a greatly negative performance hit on disk I/O operations. There
is no good reason to run AV software while playing a game unless you are
completely paranoid.
 
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