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Old 02-05-2009, 12:55 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Ugh! That's what I was afraid of.
I'm a computer (and everything else)retard.
There goes the rest of my afternoon!
I'm sure there's a computer whizz somewhere on here that has it down to a fine art. I had a quick search then in between work stuff i'm doing but all i found was a forum on people bitching that's they had trouble too.
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Old 02-05-2009, 01:05 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Tanks, Fellas! I'm downloading a free trial of AVG Internet Security. We'll see how that goes.
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Old 02-05-2009, 03:14 PM   #13 (permalink)
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I use Norton Antivirus and it runs light but I've had problems with Norton Internet security. If you don't use all the features or reign some in, it runs okay on the machines I run. The one thing I don't like is 10-20 seconds of startup time it uses, but that is a flaw of most antiviral software. The one problem I've had with AVG is false positives once in a while, which never happens with Norton.
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Old 02-05-2009, 05:03 PM   #14 (permalink)
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AVG is good, but I perfer ClamWin myself.

Symantec products are now all viruses themselves. Their shitty anti-virus (and other, useless products) install themselves so deep you can never 100% purge them. They wrap their tendrils around many other pieces of software too. Suddenly there will be a button in your browser, your word processor, Explorer. Every file you download gets a pop-up "This is clean and I'm annoying" and "Don't forget to pay for more of our shit".

They're spammy, they're destructive and they have, on occasion, been directly responsible for the whole computer to end up fucked.

I also like Adaware and Spybot.
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Old 02-05-2009, 05:13 PM   #15 (permalink)
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It was a resource whore on my computer both at home and on my work PC.
No kidding. Here's one resource-whoring benchmark, from Coding Horror:

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Old 02-05-2009, 05:32 PM   #16 (permalink)
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More on this, please ...

I've got a project with a customer of mine coming up and they are huge Symantic bigots. I haven't heard anything horrible about S, but I'd like to know if you have. FYI ... it's a corporate application with about 67 users both in office and remote.
The corporate product isn't bad, it's the consumer version that is a horrible resource hog. Avoid Norton Internet Security at all costs.
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Old 02-05-2009, 05:35 PM   #17 (permalink)
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I hear avast is good.
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Old 02-05-2009, 05:36 PM   #18 (permalink)
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By the way, a good SSD (link) makes things niiice. Not even antivirus can hurt me.
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Old 02-05-2009, 05:52 PM   #19 (permalink)
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I eventually got sick of the lagging and freezing and found completely removing it was a absolute motherfucker.
Oh, the irony.
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