Finally made the switch

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rydin4life

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Removed Norton, ran the removal tool, restarted, and installed AVAST. I registered and downlaoded the latest updates. I ran the scan and found 3 trojans and 2 pieces of malware. I moved everything to the virus chest and then deleted everything. I ran the scan again and came up clean. I guess all the stuff I've read about Norton missing things was pretty accurate.
 
Yeah, I had Norton and when I got my new MOBO I got rid of it, it took ages to start up, you had to pay for it and it sucked!

I use AVG now.
 
good choice on the switch...Avast and AVG are the best!

I dunno why people still buy Norton its crap.
 
I know, It isn't at all good...

Yeah, Avast and AVG are the best, but some will say one is better than the other, but I don't think there's a difference other than the name :P
 
Kornowski said:
I know, It isn't at all good...

Yeah, Avast and AVG are the best, but some will say one is better than the other, but I don't think there's a difference other than the name :P
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i dunno if its true or not but i think Avast uses slightly more memory.
 
I'm not sure about memory usage, but we'll hope AVAST works well for me. I just used Norton because it came with a year free when I first bought my pc a few years ago. The interface of AVAST was horrible, but I changed the skin and it looks much better. It is a little confusin, but I just installed it yesterday, so I'm sure in a few days I'll get a little more used to it.
 
I blew 3 hard drives from viruses when I used Norton. I use AVG now and like it a little better than Avast only because it seems more user friendly. Comodo has an AntiVirus, but I haven't tried it.
 
Yeah, Norton does suck major a$$ :cool:

I haven't heard of that one, Is it any good?
Hhmmm, I think I'll stick with AVG for now :)
 
Comodo makes a kick-butt firewall. So I think their AntiVirus would be just as good. I haven't tried it mainly because I'm too lazy to install it. :P
 
The user interface for AVAST was horrible, but I got another skin and its much better. I'm still getting used to it, but its growing on me.
 
Nevakonaza said:
good choice on the switch...Avast and AVG are the best!

I dunno why people still buy Norton its crap.
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People buy Norton because they don't know about any free antivirus programs out there and they think that because they pay for it that Norton is the best and it isn't.

Anyway I used to use Norton but I switched about a year and a half ago to Avast and it it the best antivirus I have used.
 
hi,i use panda antivirus on my main computer and i have had no problems,on the rest i use avira which is a good free one and it checks for updates every day,it does have one annoying trait in that a pop up appears asking if you want to buy it,every time it updates but i can live with that.
happy days fido
 
AVG is free. At least the free version is. (free.grisoft.com)

I use AVG. I did use Norton several years ago, but back then I always thought Norton was the only thing available and it was the best, like most people believe. Now I know that Symantec products are no good.
 
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