Antivirus recomendations??
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From: doncee on 26 Jun 2010 10:36 Need to rid myself of NAV on my XP machine. Installed latest version in April & have had numerous boot up & other errors ever since. Am thinking of Avast or AVG as a replacement along w\ Spybot. Any pro's or con's on these or on some others that should look in to. Thanks in advance dc
From: Unknown on 26 Jun 2010 10:44 Why not just use MSE? "doncee" <nopsamdbc9814(a)nospamswbell.wanted> wrote in message news:Xns9DA361B9E4A39nospamdbc9814nospam(a)216.196.97.131... > Need to rid myself of NAV on my XP machine. Installed latest version in > April & have had numerous boot up & other errors ever since. Am thinking > of Avast or AVG as a replacement along w\ Spybot. Any pro's or con's on > these or on some others that should look in to. Thanks in advance > dc
From: Ken Blake, MVP on 26 Jun 2010 11:47 On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:36:27 -0500, doncee <nopsamdbc9814(a)nospamswbell.wanted> wrote: > Need to rid myself of NAV on my XP machine. Installed latest version in > April & have had numerous boot up & other errors ever since. Am thinking > of Avast or AVG as a replacement along w\ Spybot. Any pro's or con's on > these or on some others that should look in to. Thanks in advance Getting rid of NAV is an excellent thing to do. Avast is a good choice, and a much better one than AVG. Here's my standard post on the subject: For an anti-virus program, I recommend eSet NOD32, if you are willing to pay for it. If you want a free anti-virus, I recommend one of the following three: Avira Avast Microsoft Security Essentials You also need anti-spyware software. I recommend that you download and install (both freeware) MalwareBytes AntiMalware *and* SuperAntiSpyware. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup
From: Anthony Buckland on 26 Jun 2010 14:06 "doncee" <nopsamdbc9814(a)nospamswbell.wanted> wrote in message news:Xns9DA361B9E4A39nospamdbc9814nospam(a)216.196.97.131... > Need to rid myself of NAV on my XP machine. Installed latest version in > April & have had numerous boot up & other errors ever since. Am thinking > of Avast or AVG as a replacement along w\ Spybot. Any pro's or con's on > these or on some others that should look in to. Thanks in advance > dc I use ZoneAlarm Extreme Security. Partly, I suppose, because that package's predecessor was the first good product I came across after escaping from Norton and McAfee.
From: doncee on 26 Jun 2010 14:45
doncee <nopsamdbc9814(a)nospamswbell.wanted> wrote in news:Xns9DA361B9E4A39nospamdbc9814nospam(a)216.196.97.131: > Need to rid myself of NAV on my XP machine. Installed latest version in > April & have had numerous boot up & other errors ever since. Am thinking > of Avast or AVG as a replacement along w\ Spybot. Any pro's or con's on > these or on some others that should look in to. Thanks in advance > dc > Thanks to all of you for your tips and advice. Exacty what I was looking for. thnx again dc |