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Originally Posted by atomic tofu  I use avg...
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I don't care for it all that much. Not had bad experiences with it, but nothing special.
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a lot of apps find questionable things, like cookies...
you can use multiples, but try and only have one run as the active...ie., avg, antivir, nod32...etc.
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Okay, so just run one primarily? I like what I see about Nod32, though I'm not seeing if its a free app. I can't afford to pay for anything fancy right now. I like AVG too, might go with that for now.
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combo it up with firewall apps, in addition to the ms defender, comodo, zone allarm, etc
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What do you suggest for each of these? I've used firewall applications before (though it was Mcafee primarily). I don't think I know anything about ms defender, comodo, zone alarm etc.
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which flavor of Vista are you using? the Dell provided version?
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yeah Vista home premium
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if so, I think it's hardcoded into the install process and you won't need to enter a key...though if that's the case, don't lose the discs.
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that might be why I didn't have to enter a key during installation.
I'm looking at my system info in the control panel and it has a windows activation section. It says "3 days until automatic activation. Activate Windows now."
Then there is a Product key (though it does not match the product key on the bottom of my laptop. And then there is an option to provide a different activation key. Though when I do that and try to give the one provided on the bottom of the laptop it says it isn't valid.