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View Poll Results: Top Rated Antivirus
AVG 58 47.93%
Avast 17 14.05%
NOD32 31 25.62%
McAfee 4 3.31%
Norton 7 5.79%
Kaspersky 16 13.22%
F-Secure 0 0%
Panda 3 2.48%
Trend Micro 6 4.96%
Bit Defender 3 2.48%
Avira Antivir 11 9.09%
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Old 02-26-2008, 07:03 AM   #21 (permalink)
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Old 03-06-2008, 12:19 AM   #22 (permalink)
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whoever voted for norton must die. not really... but come on man.
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Old 03-06-2008, 12:49 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Nod32 Ftw....
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Old 03-16-2008, 11:45 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Just starting using Avira and I like it. I switched from AVG because it game me a couple of false reports (Intially when installing Bioshock).. Went through a few free trials.

Norton is so, obtrusive, and it never uninstall cleanly. Kaprensky I found to be a poor performer, it seemed to to take up a bit of process power.

I'll stick with Avira for abit, but, might flip back to AVG because of the popularity of it.
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Old 03-21-2008, 03:49 AM   #25 (permalink)
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No. 2 works best for me..
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Old 03-21-2008, 04:02 AM   #26 (permalink)
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Sorry! But I had to bump AVG up a little since I've been using that for several years now. I dumped McAfee then Symantec years back and didn't find much with Avast except for it's own type of antiphising filter.
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Old 04-01-2008, 08:27 AM   #27 (permalink)
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Nod 32!!!!!!!!
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Old 04-04-2008, 02:41 PM   #28 (permalink)
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I was recently on a virus/Trojan hunt on a friends box. We used Kaspersky and it didn't find anything. Over a lot of protestations from my friend about the poor quality of free anti virus proggys we finally ran Avira and guess what...it found/removed the two back door Trojans we were looking for. I gotta say, it may not be the best, but it finds stuff other proggies miss. Antivir scans quickly without slowing the box down too much.
I gave up on AVG when they went to automatic everything. It served me well for several years.
I find that Kaspersky is also a bit resourse intensive and slow to scan. It does the trick most of the time, as does NOD 32, for the pay to play guys.
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I haven't used AVG or the other top picks in quite a while but I really like Nod32! It cleaned up stuff that 3 other major name scanners didn't detect or couldn't remove. I use the Eset Smart Security now that includes the Nod32 and a firewall in a much better user interface.
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ok im done with avg!
ive been using avg for a while and i think my bro got some pron and i realised some major wierd slow downs ...i did a scan and nothing.
I installed kaspersky IS and i got like 6 viruses and now my pc is clean again.

I use to love kaspersky but left cos i herd of a major bug, now im back and not leaving.


here are the 2 loosers who voted for norton
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