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Admiral Donutz December 4th, 2008 06:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Serio (Post 4708640)
Avast! has only ever warned me once. That was just a false-positive. I think it's got something to do with FireFox and my Firewall too.
Yeah, the firewall and staying away from IE usually help a great deal at preventing shit to get on your PC in the first place.

I wouldn't know to which extend my McAfee firewall helped me out though ( I really don't look into this sort of thing unless I *have* to because I ran out of protection so to say).

Penguin_Unit December 4th, 2008 07:49 AM
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So far, Avast! has picked up a boatload of malicious files that came from who-knows-where...

This was very helpful. Thank you all who suggested it.

Von II December 4th, 2008 10:53 AM
Re: A good free antivirus program...?
 
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Originally Posted by Admiral Donutz (Post 4708636)
Speaking of antivirus programs, currently I use McAfee Internet security. It has run out a week or two back. All that time it never found a single virus or anything (which means it either just sucks at the job, I'm lucky and I am smart enough to avoid downloading/opening unreliable files and attachments or a combination of those... :lol: ). I haven't reregistered yet since I'm off for three months it would be a waste of money. I haven't bothered to seriously think about subscribing again, changing to a competitor or going for a freeware alternative.

That's all for now. *keeps an eye on the thread* I won't really look seriously into AVs untill March of 2009 so... *lurk*
I have Mcafee too, but mine has expired for over 4 weeks or so, and i haven't got any problems (yet). It was already installed on my laptop when i bought it.

On topic: i suggest you use Nod 32 by Eset, it is free and requiers you to buy it, but that is only for the updates. You can scan etc. for free and it is a very decent one. I have got it installed on my 2nd pc for 2 years (the full version), and never got any problems.

Anlushac11 December 4th, 2008 11:13 AM
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If you have a anti virus saying you have 52 infections and is asking you to buy it make sure its not Anti-Virus 2007, 2008, 2009, Ultimate Anti-Virus 2008, 2009, etc.

That is a virus that comes in through a Explorer exploit. Dont click on anything just ctl-alt-del, open task manager, and close application then run not walk to get a good anti-virus, Avast is probably OK. And turn on firewall and run windows updates.

BTW if not gone already AVG free version is going away. Will be pay only.

At work we use ESET's NOD32 only.

Von II December 4th, 2008 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Anlushac11 (Post 4708966)
At work we use ESET's NOD32 only.
there you go: Nod 32 (btw, i don't get paid to say that Nod32 is good. ;))


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