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  1. 2dinos

    2dinos F1 Rookie

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    #1 2dinos, Mar 16, 2010
    I'm trying Webroot which was highly recommended by Dell, it pops up 100X a day telling me my last cleanup was x days ago. Is this to make me feel confident it's there?

    I hear Microsoft is now offering free virus protection to care for XP and Win7. Anybody try them and like them?

    Thanks.
     
  2. Ralph K

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    #2 Ralph K, Mar 16, 2010
    The only protection i trust is Kaspersky. It's the best out there.
     
  3. 2dinos

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    #3 2dinos, Mar 16, 2010
    Thank you.
     
  4. Jedi

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    #4 Jedi, Mar 16, 2010
    AVG here.... done well for me

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    #5 DMC, Mar 17, 2010
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    #6 Schimpf, Mar 17, 2010
    Google for a comparison, some papers are published comparing.

    AntiMalwareBytes will remove just about anything.
    Panda has a nice cloud AV.
    MS free AV is nice, does the job.
    Eset is rated good & so is Norton 2009, 2010 is ok.

    All depends on how well you know your computer & what you do with it.
     
  7. DevonL

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    #7 DevonL, Mar 19, 2010
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    I second Kaspersky, I've been using it for about 5 or 6 years now and absolutely love it.

    I highly recommend against using Norton or McAfee as they're absolute resource hogs and actually install themselves into your system much like a virus would. I'm not sure how much it's changed over the last few years but in order to fully remove either of them you essentially had to do a fresh install of Windows in the past. Norton was the easier of the two to remove because they actually supplied you with a registry hack to remove the registry edits and the like... Still though, it hogs resources to an unacceptable degree.
     

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