Re: Anti Virus recommendations . . .
Greetings from Leon Springs, Texas USofA,
As a complete, or maybe an incomplete, NOVICE in this forum, NOT very experienced with these newer systems is what I really mean.
I have tried NORTON (barf!), PC-cillin (another!), AVG (again!), and many other that are either a resource HOG or just not very good, in my opinion which holds NO water.
My recommendation is Avira's AntiVir which is the one and only one I use and is updated as often as one can possibly keep their AV software updated to. I have had very good experiences with them as well as their software. Just recently moved from dial-up to DSL so most of my experiences have been in the dial-up arena. They worked with me and listened to suggestions given to them by ME as well. Being a not so smart user, but; with some good suggestions they did listen and tested a suggestion for maybe 6 - 8 months before implementing one that gave them a clear advantage and those of us on dial-ups, at that time maybe a couple of years ago, to send and append or merge their updates of their 'vdf' files instead of sending a FULL 'vdf' file every time we updated our systems. Made their requirement of band width much less and our updates were much faster. A very small thingy for them but was a very large HELP for their USERS especially those of us on dial-up.
In my opinion they will work with you if you ask and provide some information for them to work with. Your decision on which one to use is really more up to the individual as to which you feel the most comfortable and the ease of setup & use for you. Some like Kaparsky I do not like one that adds their advertiesment to the end of my e-mail (AVG is one).
Do your own testing and find your comfort zone then enjoy,
Thank you for reading my rant and posty toastie,
Re: Anti Virus recommendations . . .
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Enjoy,
Re: Anti Virus recommendations . . .
EW,
Thank you for this posty and hopefully you will get your 'cygwin' added to the Avira lineup so you, as well, will be protected to the MAX.
With you having been a ßeta tester they will accommodate you in the near future.
The only problem I am having with the DSL is the wind burns from this faster speed, need to leave here for a short so my skin can cool off some. BAG! (Big A__ Grin!)
Again thank you for the posting,
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Originally Posted by
Elf Wizard
+1 from me to avira! I was a beta tester some years ago. Very good company, very friendly people at their forums and very good products. (I'm also using their free ntfs4dos (for accessing my ntfs partitions under freedos).
The only thing I want to see at future versions is support for red hat's cygwin users like me (I'm using it for emulating linux programs under xp).
Since I can't right now use avira, I'm using avg and I'm quite satisfied with it.
Anyway, I'm pretty sure that avira won't failed you!:bigthumb:
Then, Enjoy your DSL connection!:bigthumb:
i think avast is the best
after norton ruined my machine, i searched around for a free av on download.com i found avast and have stayed for over 2 years now. They offer great protection, small resources, and best of all its free! They often do very well on the av tests that are conducted, higher then avg usually. And they often get awards for detection. I like that it updates every day, sometimes even 2 times a day. and the small update size is perfect for dial up users, and the sounds and things are neat. I think avast or antivir is a great choice for protection. Avg is no longer a top notch program in my opinion. There antispyware on the other hand, is good. Viruis protection isn't as good.