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Tony Bandiera Jr
Film God

Posts: 3067
From: Moreland Idaho
Registered: Apr 2004

posted 02-24-2012 01:58 PM

Another vote for AVG. I have yet to find a good anti-spyware yet though.

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Sam D. Chavez
Film God

Posts: 2153
From: Martinez, CA USA
Registered: Aug 2003

posted 02-24-2012 02:22 PM

I've had trouble with AVG and Windows 7 home edition and seeing the network printer without turning off the firewall. They have been none too helpful with this issue.

No problem with XP though.

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Marco Giustini
Film God

Posts: 2713
From: Reading, UK
Registered: Nov 2007

posted 02-25-2012 05:12 AM

I used to use AVG, then it become too big and resource-draining, I think the installer was 400MB at the time. Also, I did not like the fact that when they swicth major version number you have to uninstall the old version and download the new one (this is because someone thinks the free version does not exist anymore and they buy the full one).

I switched to the lightest one, avira, but did not have email protection and moved to avast. Found avast light and efficient.
When moved to Windows 7 I did a search again and found that MSE was the best (even though - at that time - the slowest when doing a virus scan). Had MSE since and feel fine.

As others said, I dislike other big names. Stay off NORTON for God's sake, that IS a virus!!! It gets into the very roots of your system and slow everything down. I found that if a computer has a strange issue and Norton is installed, uninstalling it usually fixes the problem! [Smile]

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Christian Appelt
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 505
From: Frankfurt, Germany
Registered: Dec 2001

posted 02-25-2012 08:09 AM

I use Avira Antivirus. There is a free edition and a Premium version (about US$ 25/year) which takes care of malware and spyware in real time.

If you don't want to buy the Premium version, I'd recommend a combination of Avira Personal Edition (free) and running Malwarebytes (also free) once a week.

Avira Antivirus (free)

Malwarebytes download (free)

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Jeff Kane
Film Handler

Posts: 74
From: corpus christi, tx
Registered: Jun 2011

posted 03-05-2012 02:47 PM

Love that Avira calls their scanner "Luke Filewalker". We used Symantec Corporate AV for years but it was neigh useless. Basically it seemed to exist to allow the machine to get infected, then become more of a nuisance than the virus that'd infected it!

Microsoft Security Essentials has been excellent. The one nefarious infection it couldn't clear up I zapped by booting in 'safe mode' and nailing a directory and a few registry keys. And even though it couldn't clean the infection it DID alert me to the infection. Price is right, it's very resource light, and seems to work excellently. Windows 8 has it 'baked in'.

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