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inetersting you should mention anti virus'. I was just having a discussion on it elsewhere to which a friend posted the following..

PC Pro ran a massive anti-virus labs test this month, focussing purely on AV/malware solutions, not these kind of "complete security packages" that do firewalls and phishing detection and all that lot.

They put Kaspersky down as absolutely the clear winner by some distance, and also commended it for a very small memory/CPU footprint. Only downer is of course that it's not free! (It had a 98% detection rate.)

If you're after a free AV solution, your best bet is Avira AntiVir Personal Edition Classic, which managed a 92% detection rate but apparently nags quite a lot for you to upgrade to the premium version.

AVG Free Edition only managed an 83% detection rate, and whilst it was praised in some areas, wasn't considered effective enough at detecting threats to be strongly recommended.

The other freebie is Avast 4 Home Edition (a feeble 70% detection rate), which was given a bit of a pummelling and not recommended at all.

Norton and McAfee both did poorly, with 68% and 78% detection rates respectively - Norton's performance in particular was very bad, and was also a resource hog when running under Vista.

Special mention was made of Microsoft's own Windows Live OneCare which managed an appalling 66% detection rate and also took it upon itself to alter system settings as it saw fit, it got one star out of six.
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tells an interesting story.......
 
i HATE antivirus software!

you may as well just buy a computer that's 20% slower if you run that garbage

i suggest taking your chances, and simply reformatting/re-installing when bad things happen
 
Kornowski said:
Keep the fanboys away!

It's all down to preference, Avast, AVG, they're all pretty much the same...
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not really though, i'm sure our resident experts will point out specifically but it would seem after some fairly vigarous testing there are some that have holes in them.

Personally I wouldnt use anything other than Kaspersky myself, the russians dont tend to mess about when it comes to, well, just about anything :D

Yeah it costs a few quid but if your protected its worth it
 
jimmymac said:
not really though, i'm sure our resident experts will point out specifically but it would seem after some fairly vigarous testing there are some that have holes in them.

Personally I wouldnt use anything other than Kaspersky myself, the russians dont tend to mess about when it comes to, well, just about anything :D

Yeah it costs a few quid but if your protected its worth it
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Kaspersky, best effin anti-virus i've ever used.
 
I use Spybot Search and Destory. I like it, because It is freeware, and It has a good consistant detection rate. My CPU use has hardly ever benched 15% (Besides Gaming). My computer has always been Search and Destory.
 
I've used Avast for a long time.. The only two complaints are; takes too godamn long to scan, and they should have made the "your virus database has been updated" voice sound more piratey..
 
AVG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
been using that for years.. it's free and it's good. Regular and prompt updates. Very solid and reliable. User friendly.
I moved to AVG few years ago because Norton was taken up as much resources as Vista would nowadays.
 
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