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As the title implies, can anyone suggest an antivirus?

 

I currently use Norton, but it is freaking annoying, often blocks important stuff that are supposedly trojans, randomly filters websites, and I can't play a nice game of warcraft without having them inform me that my subscription is running out/ i need to update it and restart.

 

Since I need to renew the stupid antivirus soon, I might as well try and get a new one. It can't be worse than norton, right?

 

I believe paying shouldn't be a problem, as long as it's not like $110^.

 

If free download, it has to stay free. No "omg your free trial is up you must download again".

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Avira is an excellent free one (outstrips AVG by a long way) or if you don't mind paying NOD32 is good too.

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Ad-aware is anti spyware, not anti virus ;) Still worth having though.

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How 'bout Kaspersky?

 

 

 

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Avira AntiVir is a great virus program, and you can pay for it $30 a year or something if you like. It is the only virus scanning program that I use, as it catches everything. On 2 computers, there were virus scanners, one was CA and one was from Telus. I shut those two down, and loaded up AntiVir, did a scan, and found over 100 viruses that those two, supposedly top of the line, scanners did not find.

 

 

 

As for spyware, definintely use Spybot search and destroy. It has real time protection that blocks incoming spyware (at least 99.9%) of it, and does not even let it get installed on your computer. Forget Ad-Aware, it does not have this kind of protection.

 

 

 

So definintely get Avira and Spybot

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Avira is great, you can pay if you want to for it.

 

Avast! is also good, you just have to register an e-mail and they'll give you free updates for a year

 

NOD32 and Kapersky cost money, but are ridiculously great.

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Avast! is good, free with updates forever if you get it from the right site (my friend was redirected to the uk site which didn't have the free version :? ) but it does also have slight issues with false positives. But it is fairly easy to turn off automatic scanning and just scan everything manually, so Avast! is a good option.

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