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What AV are you running?
« on: August 31, 2012, 11:21:07 AM »
Who is the go to for Antivirus protection these days? Been a long time since I had to care.
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Re: What AV are you running?
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2012, 12:08:39 PM »
Microsoft Security Essentials and maybe Avast.

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Re: What AV are you running?
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2012, 12:11:03 PM »
AVG

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Re: What AV are you running?
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2012, 12:19:44 PM »
AVG

That used to be my answer but reviews turn me off now

Microsoft Security Essentials and maybe Avast.

MSE is integrated into 8
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Re: What AV are you running?
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2012, 12:21:29 PM »
What do the reviews say?  I haven't had issues.  MSE missed something once and I found Avast to be annoying and a POS (also missed something).

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Re: What AV are you running?
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2012, 12:45:56 PM »
Just that it has become unreliable in the last few years and tends to "flake out" more than others. I do recall disliking the last version I ran, but anyones guess as to which one that was.
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Re: What AV are you running?
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2012, 01:12:48 PM »
still running NOD at home.
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Re: What AV are you running?
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2012, 01:13:47 PM »
I haven't used an antivirus program for like 2 years.

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Re: What AV are you running?
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2012, 01:47:34 PM »
Just whatever default stuff Win7 has on it.

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Re: What AV are you running?
« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2012, 02:58:33 PM »
I think I'll let Win8 do it's thing and see if there are any issues.
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Re: What AV are you running?
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2012, 03:31:54 PM »
What do the reviews say?  I haven't had issues.  MSE missed something once and I found Avast to be annoying and a POS (also missed something).

Benny!  They all miss things.  No way any AV is going to catch everything.  That isn't even realistic.  C'mon.

I used AVG for years and found that it caused issues (years ago).  So I moved to ESET NOD32 (pay) stuck with that until I tested MSSE for a year or two on the wife's machine.  I have since switched and am very pleased.

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Re: What AV are you running?
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2012, 03:32:11 PM »
Just whatever default stuff Win7 has on it.

Meaning none.

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Re: What AV are you running?
« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2012, 03:34:02 PM »
I might go back to MSSE.  AVG can be annoying and a resource hog sometimes.

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Re: What AV are you running?
« Reply #13 on: August 31, 2012, 04:07:21 PM »
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Re: What AV are you running?
« Reply #14 on: August 31, 2012, 05:10:13 PM »