Antiviruses

spantell · Post by **spantell** » July 17th, 2008, 11:10 am

Anyone have a recommendation for antivirus software? I hear that some (like Norton, which I used to have) can really slow your system down.

vine311 · Post by **vine311** » July 17th, 2008, 11:50 am

I use Kaspersky anti-virus. It's free and it's worked pretty well so far. I haven't noticed any system slowdown after install.

Post by **Jon Bolden** » July 17th, 2008, 12:31 pm

I'm AVG till the day I die!

LisaJackson · Post by **LisaJackson** » July 17th, 2008, 3:55 pm

I work at an IT place. They recommend AVG and Symantec. And AdAware for spies.

Post by **bradisntclever** » July 17th, 2008, 5:41 pm

Jon Bolden wrote:I'm AVG till the day I die!

I feel like the quality of AVG has decreased a lot over the last year or so.

Post by **Jon Bolden** » July 17th, 2008, 6:02 pm

bradisntclever wrote:
Jon Bolden wrote:I'm AVG till the day I die!
I feel like the quality of AVG has decreased a lot over the last year or so.

You may be right actually. I only use a windows box at work and I use AVG there. But I use mostly macs so I wouldn't have known if it went down hill.

mcslionhair · Post by **mcslionhair** » July 8th, 2011, 10:27 am

I use Bitdefender and Spy-bot Search and Destroy, they do the trick pretty nicely. For those time when you actually do get infected Malwarebytes is a solid program to help you out

Spaztique · Post by **Spaztique** » July 8th, 2011, 4:08 pm

As one guy put it, common sense is the best antivirus: don't go to untrustworthy sites, disable javascript unless you really need it, don't press "Yes" or "Agree" to any unexpected downloads, and so on.

I never used antivirus software, and I've had one of my computers running for seven years before switching to a new one, and it still works.

Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell · July 8th, 2011, 4:11 pm

that makes it VERY difficult to look at porn, though...

Post by **bradisntclever** » July 8th, 2011, 4:16 pm

This all happened because a spambot bumped the thread and Quinn replied to it. If you'll notice, the question is from 3 years ago.

mcslionhair · Post by **mcslionhair** » July 8th, 2011, 6:43 pm

Haha my b

B. Tribe · Post by **B. Tribe** » September 28th, 2011, 9:06 am

bradisntclever wrote:This all happened because a spambot bumped the thread and Quinn replied to it. If you'll notice, the question is from 3 years ago.

Edward7 wrote:AVAST FREE is good antivirus.