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    Quote Originally Posted by kailasa108 View Post
    While COMODO's firewall is one of the best (free or purchased), the same is NOT true of their AV. If you look at the professional AV testing websites, you'll usually find that Avira's Antivir is the top AV (free or paid) that does not require hardware. It also includes rootkit detection.

    AVG Free is usually rated poor.
    Please keep in mind, that Avira won't work for you, if you have installed (like me), linux like software in your windows installation (eg. Redhat's cygwin1.dll).

    Comodo av, don't has and won't has a big virus database while is in its beta stage. Better to keep your distances from it, unless ofcourse you want to participate in beta testing.

    Rootkit detection software, you can find there:
    http://www.antirootkit.com/software/index.htm

    My personal opinion (please don't get mad, just my personal opinion), is not to depend in site reviews for helping you at your personal research. I think is better reading individual users experiences.

    PS. I have here installed AVG and I'm quite satisfied from it, but I'm sure you can find other good solutions as well.

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    Default 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,

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    Default Re: Anti Virus recommendations . . .

    If you are not aware of CastleCops Forum then go there and check out all they have available for your consumption or reading if you prefer.

    Their Forum: Edit (Site closed) if you just want to read then you may or if you wish to ask questions then Register, it is painless.

    There are other sites that have Forums that are very well monitored and filled with information for your consumption or reading as before.

    Enjoy,
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    Quote Originally Posted by LoneLurker View Post
    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.
    +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!


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    Just recently moved from dial-up to DSL
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    Default 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,

    Quote Originally Posted by Elf Wizard View Post
    +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!



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    Quote Originally Posted by LoneLurker View Post
    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,
    I'm new to dsl too! I'm also having problems with it. Although I bought a new bigger disk, I'm having to buy again and again packs of dvds.

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    Gaming4JC, I use the same programs except for Bit Defender ... which I didn't find to my liking at all.

    I've never had a virus and I've been consistently on the internet since it was the Darpa/Arpa net of the mid 70s, but I've removed or otherwise "fixed" damage caused by hundreds in other's machines.

    I run my machine pretty lean and run the detection programs as "on Demand" scanners.

    When I say "lean", my HiJack list is only 23 entries, my start up list 5 entries and my available RAM is 624Mb (average) out of 768Mb - this is on a dual boot (98SE/2000Pro) machine. Ain't much going on inside this box unless I ask there to be.
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    Wink 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.
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    Default stupid shitty spyware

    At the bottom left side of the screen an icon that resmbles a shield changes from a question mark to a x sign please its also coming up with a pop up saying i have active spyware please help i click on it an it takes me to a websit called virus reponse 2009 i ran sybot an it is saying there is no spyware so what do i do

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    Hi peter schultze,

    Consider posting in the Malware Removal forum and having someone take a look at your system.

    If you decide to have an experienced malware removal specialist assist you, please follow the procedure in this link to run scans and produce a HijackThis log:


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