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Geek Culture / The best antivirus?

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John Y
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Posted: 5th Jun 2005 03:27
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My subscription with Trend Micro Internet Security is about to expire, and although it has been good it's not exactly feature rich. so does anyone have any good alternatives that DO NOT slow my computer down, this unfortunately rules out Norton.


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Richard Davey
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Posted: 5th Jun 2005 03:32
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NOD32 by Eset. Installed it just over a year ago now and it's utterly superb. All the things you need: auto updates (sometimes as many as 6 per day!), full seamless email/IM scanning, quarantines, un-beaten track record for actually catching all viruses and it's FAST. Doesn't hog masses of CPU or memory, you don't even know it's there (something that you can't say about Norton).

I will never use a Symantec product ever again having moved from 6 years of using Norton AV to NOD32 - it felt like my CPU got upgraded for free

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Rich

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Posted: 5th Jun 2005 05:00 Edited at: 5th Jun 2005 05:02
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With the new version of NOD32, it now stops slowing down the computer. Thus, I'm now using it.
It is good - the updates are generally performed several times a day, and the scheduled full scan is performed in the background - no window popups


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John Y
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Sounds good, does it have any type of firewall or do you rely on the windows one. I don't necessarily need one because of my router, but it's always a bonus.


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Richard Davey
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No firewall. But then it's an anti-virus package, so it shouldn't really have one

I use the firewall built into my router + the firewall that came with SP2 for blocking program level access to the 'net. Hasn't failed me yet.

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