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[Velvet D'Coolette]

Hi all,

And sorry that I don't contribute here any more, only come to sponge various things and then disappear again. I am bad and I should feel bad.

Anyway, on to my question: I've just had a massive clearout of my parents' computer and realised that among other problems, they're just about to run out of virus protection. I'm not familiar enough with virus protection programs to know of the most recent ones that haven't gone mainstream and have the corresponding mainstream price tag. Can anyone recommend one to me?

I would Google this myself, only I don't trust myself to be able to reliably find a non-mainstream virus protection that isn't a virus scam in itself. Or... that's what I'm telling myself, anyways *coughs and looks shamefacedly around*

Any recommendations at all? They'd be much-appreciated.

[RedAuthar]

AVG. It's free.
There is a paid version too but I mean the Free Version should cover everything.

Avast! isn't so bad either....but it's been a while since I used them.

[Uncle Ben]

(this is why i like my Mac)

AVG is free though the paid is much better

Norton is pretty good from what i hear

[RedAuthar]

Norton trolls. It constantly asks for upgrades or renewals and it hates all other Anti-virus/virus protection programs.

[Uncle Ben]

Well idk. Thats what i used on my PC before i got my Mac. No matter what my PC always had problems

[Velvet D'Coolette]

The AVG program, which they've had for a while, is what's asking to be paid for again. So that's why I'm looking for something else.

[Uncle Ben]

I cant be of much help, Sorry

[RedAuthar]

Try looking into Avast!

[Teirusu]

The only one I use is Nortron32.

About AVG, I delete it several times on my pc and my family pcs. Is the tipical antivirus that detect everything like a virus and give me a lot of times problems runing most of the programs I instal, even if they are oficial.

Avast never tried it...you could give it a chance as Red said Velvet

[furrykef]

I don't use any antivirus at all. I'm sick of stuff like false positives and having my virus scanner interrupt my games for no good reason. What has a virus scanner actually done for me? Virtually nothing.

But that's me. Somebody who isn't as computer literate might well benefit from virus protection...

[MoKat]

Norton trolls. It constantly asks for upgrades or renewals and it hates all other Anti-virus/virus protection programs.

*nods* It's true. Also, all Symantec products seem to have become bloatware in the past couple of years.

I used the free version of Avast! for years, along with the free version of Malware Bytes, and liked it. Got a great deal on Kaspersky's Internet Security recently, so I'm running that (and MB as back-up anti-malware) now. There is a trial version of KIS that you can get from Kaspersky's site if ya wanna test drive it. It seems to be more resource intensive than Avast! though.
{note: I don't recommend using the paid version of Malware Bytes with paid KIS because -both- perform active blocking and, therefore, can conflict with each other.}

[Vlad Yvhv]

I'm not a computer wiz, but the guy who built my computer is. He put Avast on it. It seems to work well enough with the free version.