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Old 12-07-2005, 08:07 PM
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personally, I have not used an antivirus program for about 3 years. They drag my system down too much, and I get tired of all of the updates right at the wrong time.



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Old 12-07-2005, 09:44 PM
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I use Norton antivirus. I just turned off all the annoying features. It works great and keeps my computer clean. The viruses will slow the computer down more than having the programming running.



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Old 12-08-2005, 12:52 AM
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I guess I have just been lucky enough to stay away from viruses. I have had a few, even when I had an AV, but I kinda learned what to stay away from.



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Old 12-10-2005, 08:29 PM
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I had Norton until I few weeks ago. Something got into my computer and messed up the settings of Norton. Now I use some freeware programs, that worked well.



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Old 12-10-2005, 10:08 PM
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they say AVAST is a good free one to use.



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Old 01-14-2006, 01:16 AM
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personally, I have not used an antivirus program for about 3 years. They drag my system down too much, and I get tired of all of the updates right at the wrong time.
Yeah, the constant updates may be annoying, but then again, it's better to be safe than sorry. A computer connected to the internet is very much probe to viruses, so it's better to have some protection. [/quote]



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Old 01-16-2006, 11:08 PM
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Most viruses are installed during the night while your computer screen is turned off and your computer NOT active. They 'hackers' know that your not there so your not going to notice it happening to stop it. They can get into your computer and make norton and other AV(Anti Virus) programs to not notice it or not detect it as a threat. This can be very annoying especially if it is a sleeper, where it comes out after a period of time, and can really screw up your computer and make it go a lot slower.

So if you weigh the slow down of the AV running in the background to spyware and viruses destroying and corrupting data. Having that little slow down from the AV is much better then your data that you find usefull and may NEED later being deleted or corrupted so that you can't get into it.

I have the following AV ( Anti Virus ) programs:

Norton
a² Personal Edition
Panda Platinum Internet Security
avast! Virus Cleaner Tool

I think that is all the AV ( Anti Virus ) programs that I have.

I also suggest you getting at least ONE of these if you do not already.



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Old 01-18-2006, 01:46 PM
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i think avast is a good one ..u can update for free!



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Old 04-03-2006, 01:50 AM
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yeah...it's better to be safe than sorry...well, maybe just a little safe since there are viruses which can still infect your computer...



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Old 04-04-2006, 08:50 PM
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personally, I have not used an antivirus program for about 3 years. They drag my system down too much, and I get tired of all of the updates right at the wrong time.
If you are looking for an effective and non-consuming AV, I'd suggest NOD32.



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