We all have been using anti-virus softwares on our pcs whether free or paid.
And heres my experience……
I have used free anti-virus and spyware such as avast,avg,spybot search and destroy,spyware doctor,spysweeper,ad-aware and many more.Most of them slowed down my pc's performance and i dont know why?.Also they were not effective enuff to protect the pc for simple fact i had to reformat my pc due to virus attacks on prior instances.
On the other hand i am currently using paid versions of kaspersky and Norton on my pc's and honestly i feel they are working good for me.I dont know why but many people hate norton but from my personal experience i find it very easy, effective and trustworthy.Also its not making my pc slow.Likewise with kaspersky, infact it has made my pc work faster than ever.
What do you think, guys?
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4 responses so far ↓
1 Bill // Apr 26, 2008
Just one brand may not be enough… I like SpySweeper but many folks gripe about it - reviews on the net are generally positive… but once I had a friend with it who had something that SpySweeper could not remove - so we installed Spyware Doctor and it got the bad guy out of there… Your best bet is to keep around a disk with several different brands ready to go if you do get infected.
2 Gian o // Apr 26, 2008
free
3 rossng11 // Apr 26, 2008
Free. I use these:
Avira (best free detection): http://www.free-av.com/
Spyware Terminator: http://www.spywareterminator.com/
Comodo: http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/
Spyware Terminator with immunise and teatimer: http://www.safer-networking.org/
These all have a very low footprint - Avira just 9.5 megs of memory.
I hate Norton: used it for 5 years and painfully discovered its failings.
4 30stm4life // Apr 26, 2008
I myself, have AVG and it slows my computer down so much… plus about every morning i find itself doing a computer scan,not to mention that it's daily updates every time you start up your computer is a pain in the butt! in my short experiences of paid antiviruses, i noticed it is a lot better, and it doesn't ware my computer down.
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