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 anti-virus software question 
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I am sick of McAffee bogging down my system. Any suggestions on a good alternative? (I am on a PC.) (And don't tell me to get a Mac :wink: )


Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:38 am
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they say Kaspersky is good


Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:41 am
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I used to have Norton, but McAfee works better on my computer.


Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:42 am
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Was a faithful Norton user for 10 years. The software became so unwieldy (not to mention friggin expensive renewing it year after year) that I checked out free alternatives and landed on Avira. Not only is its footprint tiny, but it works better than Norton!


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I use AVG Free.


Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:37 am
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I'm an AVG Free man myself - not only (as its name suggests) free, but it updates itself every day, and appears to be quite effective.

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Yup AVG. We use Symantec Enterprise at work and AVG is way better. So there ya go.

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Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:24 am
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free.grisoft.com


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when AVG stopped detecting viruses for me, I switched to Avira and it seems to work great. It gives you some annoying pop-ups when scanning, but there's a very easy way to take care of that.


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