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I'm Paul.
I cant comment on programs I haven't used but Norton & McAfee I have used and they are not good at all.
Comodo I have found to be very good and its absolutely free. I recently installed it on a netbook I bought for my daughters. It runs really well in the background and the PC is by no means a performance machine by any standard.
Comodo is also easy to set up.
~Paul~
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I'm Neil.
Thanks
Hi guys thanks for the comments keep them coming. I guess I am looking for a consensus on what to go for.
I may indeed have downloaded the wrong AVG. Its a miracle I was able to do anything at all.
Regards D S D L ----- Neil
Last edited by Spectral Morn; 29-12-2008 at 09:45.
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AVG do make the free version harder to find than they used to.
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I'm Clive.
Both my kids got similar viruses, they were trojans presenting persistent adverts. AVG did not stop them and could clean them up, however I don't know if other anti-virus s/w would have done any better. One laptop had to be reinstalled from it's backup. The other took a lot of fixing.
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I have been using AVAST for 10 years now and I can't remember the year when I last had a virus or trojan attack that brought my PC to its knees. As a business user I get on average 5 attack attempts each day amongst the 100+ junk emails. So I am quite satisfied that my virus checker is bullet proof.
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I'm Clive.
The killer seems to be Limewire.Originally Posted by Sensimilia
I have been using AVAST for 10 years now and I can't remember the year when I last had a virus or trojan attack that brought my PC to its knees. As a business user I get on average 5 attack attempts each day amongst the 100+ junk emails. So I am quite satisfied that my virus checker is bullet proof
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I plead the 5th on anything other than logging on to AoS and the BBC news pages. But I do have a 20MB broadband connection for good reason
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I'm Clive.
Point taken, I'll try it out!I plead the 5th on anything other than logging on to AoS and the BBC news pages
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I'm Neil.
Hi Kevin Prince of Darkness
If AVG free is hard to find do you mind sharing where it can be found ?
Regards D S D L----- Neil
Last edited by Spectral Morn; 29-12-2008 at 09:45.
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Try this.
http://free.avg.com/
"Always carry a large flagon of whisky, in case of snake bite and, furthermore, always carry a small snake."
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