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View Poll Results: Top Rated Antivirus
AVG 59 48.36%
Avast 17 13.93%
NOD32 31 25.41%
McAfee 4 3.28%
Norton 7 5.74%
Kaspersky 16 13.11%
F-Secure 0 0%
Panda 3 2.46%
Trend Micro 6 4.92%
Bit Defender 3 2.46%
Avira Antivir 11 9.02%
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Old 04-13-2008, 03:51 PM   #41 (permalink)
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im liking kaspersky, but it does take up a lot of resouces...
i think i might try nod32...i hope it isnt a resource hog.
i want something strong and lite...
Nod isn't a resource hog at all, IMO. Very small program, and checks for updates every hour (unless you change the update schedule); I never notice that it updates either until I see it say "update was successful" xD.
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Old 04-24-2008, 08:29 AM   #42 (permalink)
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Whoa, Norton only 4%...after this poll, I will have to try AVG, as Norton is taking to much of my memory!
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Old 04-24-2008, 01:56 PM   #43 (permalink)
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Norton doesn't even deserve that much
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Old 04-24-2008, 02:03 PM   #44 (permalink)
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Good news! I finally managed to convince my boss at work to remove Norton from our systems, and install AVG! So I'll be doing that when I go to work today. We're gonna install the free version on our 10 systems first, and then in about a week or so we're going to get a multi-license.
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Old 04-24-2008, 02:07 PM   #45 (permalink)
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The people that voted for Norton or McAffee need to really get away from the bloatware....
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Old 04-24-2008, 02:39 PM   #46 (permalink)
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The people that voted for Norton or McAffee need to really get away from the bloatware....
Agreed. At least there's more people outnumbering them for the better AV's, though =).
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I LOVE the scan on boot feature of Avast. Worth the download right there.
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I LOVE the scan on boot feature of Avast. Worth the download right there.
wat other antivirus has the boot feature?
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once again, i love kaspersky, it's really good. What do u guys have against kaspersky may i ask besides price?
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AVG recently updated their free edition to 8.0 and now I gotta say I don't really trust it anymore its picking up a few of my games as viruses and I think there are a few real viruses that it isn't picking up on. I'm not entirely sure though.
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