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Postby Slater » Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:57 pm

uh... I just uninstalled Norton in order to get AVG cause I was under the impression that AVG was free... apparently it is not. Now I have no virus scan o.o;

Can someone point me to a good, free antivirus program?
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:01 pm

http://www.avast.com/

avast is free, whether its better than others I don't know
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Postby Slater » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:10 pm

ty 4evar
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Postby uc pseudonym » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:21 pm

For the record, there are two versions of AVG. You would have wanted this one:
http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
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Postby Locke » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:23 pm

Avast is pretty good, I switched to it after RYAN'S Norton crapped out on me.
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:41 pm

Locke wrote:Avast is pretty good, I switched to it after RYAN'S Norton crapped out on me.


I was trying to send a 20 mb installer over an aim transfer... what do you expect >_>
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Postby Slater » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:41 pm

yeah, I decided to get AVG from my gf via msn when I read Ryan's comment about Avast in the other thread.
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Postby glitch1501 » Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:42 pm

im a big avast supporter, its great...

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Postby Kaligraphic » Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:11 pm

NOD32 (eset.com) or Kaspersky (kaspersky.com) for the win.

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Postby Slater » Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:52 am

hmm... ftw but not for free... tough call.
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Postby Sammy Boy » Sun Jan 15, 2006 6:54 am

I use the personal edition classic of Anti-Vir (i know the name isn't very creative), and on average there is an update I can download and install every 2 weeks. The personal edition is free.

It's at: http://www.free-av.com/
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Postby agasfas » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:10 pm

I would also recommend Avast personal too. I've used it for a few years and I've had no problems with it. I personally think it works much better than Norton Ant-virus. But I'm sure there are other good free anti-virus software out there.
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Postby FadedOne » Fri Jan 20, 2006 9:29 pm

hm...i find it odd that so many people are recommending Avast. I used that program a couple years ago and rather liked it until it started to give me problems. It was recognizing all sorts of viruses that weren't there(for certain).

Perhaps they've improved on it since then. I'm curious. If it wasn't for college demanding I use all sorts of resource-absorbing crap, i'd be all for trying it again.
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