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Battle of the free anti-virus
« on: November 15, 2008, 01:19:06 PM »
So I'm sick of AVG.  Updates fail all the time, I honestly think it misses stuff, and it's generally annoying and runs scans way too often.

I have Avira running on my desktop right now and I like it except that it throws a pop-up for the premium version EVERY FUCKING DAY.  I also have Avast running on my laptop, and that seems to be a good contender at the moment.

Honestly, I'm borderline ready to buy something.
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Re: Battle of the free anti-virus
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2008, 01:26:10 PM »
Anti-Virus?

Oh, yeah...I remember...those things you had to have with Windows...ah...those weren't the days
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Re: Battle of the free anti-virus
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2008, 01:39:38 PM »
Eset NOD32
« Last Edit: November 15, 2008, 03:27:18 PM by KnuckleBuckett »
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Re: Battle of the free anti-virus
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2008, 02:29:50 PM »
Haha dumah beat me to it. Ahh antivirus running on a system running on a virus...how redundent!

But yea eset is fucking good
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Quote from: ober on September 18, 2012, 10:27:09 PM
hey ethic if you and i were both courting lily allen..... oh wait, which one of us has a relationship that lasted more than the bus ride home?

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Re: Battle of the free anti-virus
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2008, 04:33:40 PM »
who's your ISP? Cox Cable gives us McAfee Suite for free.

perhaps your provider has a similar program?
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Re: Battle of the free anti-virus
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2008, 05:11:40 PM »
I wouldn't use mcaff/norton if they paid me
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Quote from: ober on September 18, 2012, 10:27:09 PM
hey ethic if you and i were both courting lily allen..... oh wait, which one of us has a relationship that lasted more than the bus ride home?

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Re: Battle of the free anti-virus
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2008, 07:54:41 PM »
is there a free version of eset? On their site it only mentions a trial version
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Re: Battle of the free anti-virus
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2008, 07:59:42 PM »
99% sure that there is.

There's always BT
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Quote from: ober on September 18, 2012, 10:27:09 PM
hey ethic if you and i were both courting lily allen..... oh wait, which one of us has a relationship that lasted more than the bus ride home?

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Re: Battle of the free anti-virus
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2008, 11:01:29 PM »
Quote from: micah on November 15, 2008, 04:33:40 PM
who's your ISP? Cox Cable gives us McAfee Suite for free.

perhaps your provider has a similar program?

Are you shitting me?  McAfee?  Does more bad than good.  POS!
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Re: Battle of the free anti-virus
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2008, 11:34:33 PM »
But it never says it found a virus so it must be working!
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Quote from: ober on September 18, 2012, 10:27:09 PM
hey ethic if you and i were both courting lily allen..... oh wait, which one of us has a relationship that lasted more than the bus ride home?

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Re: Battle of the free anti-virus
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2008, 11:49:06 PM »
Quote from: RoD on November 15, 2008, 11:34:33 PM
But it never says it found a virus so it must be working!

LOL!

but seriously, it has found some viri before and its free so how bad can it be? the only catch is that I have to turn off its built in firewall for my wireless router to work.  otherwise seems fine, no?  :dunno:
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Re: Battle of the free anti-virus
« Reply #11 on: November 16, 2008, 12:07:21 AM »
Its missing more harmful software then you can even imagine brother
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Quote from: ober on September 18, 2012, 10:27:09 PM
hey ethic if you and i were both courting lily allen..... oh wait, which one of us has a relationship that lasted more than the bus ride home?

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Re: Battle of the free anti-virus
« Reply #12 on: November 16, 2008, 01:05:47 AM »
Quote from: RoD on November 16, 2008, 12:07:21 AM
Its missing more harmful software then you can even imagine brother

Amen.
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Re: Battle of the free anti-virus
« Reply #13 on: November 16, 2008, 01:06:05 AM »
Quote from: A Bit of Fruit on November 15, 2008, 07:54:41 PM
is there a free version of eset? On their site it only mentions a trial version

No free version.
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Re: Battle of the free anti-virus
« Reply #14 on: November 16, 2008, 10:48:54 AM »
I use ClamWin.
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