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[bassexpander]

I've been an AVAST user for quite a while. It's done well, but I realize there are some products out there that will allow you to schedule scans as free versions, so I've been trying some.

I am currently trying Avira Free on 2 machines. I also installed Threatfire 3.5 along with it. So far, so good. Hate the scan popups, so I turned them all off. Not the easiest to modify, and not fast at scanning, but seems OK. Threatfire seems to be good.

I tried Bitdefender's best 2009 Security package, and i'm really bummed that it crashes a Visual C++ runtime error on my wife's machine when I visit hanmail. Other machines seem OK. I read that many are having this problem, and most seem to be from Asian countries. So I dumped that.

Finished a full trial with Kapersky, and it seemed OK, but I was never sure what it was doing... lots of information, but not in all of the places I liked to see feedback in. Too expensive, and Russian..... not happy with Russia now. Dumped.

[I_Am_The_Kiwi]

Bummer bout bitdefender. Just got 2009 Total Security, wicked app, like the new additionas theyre starting to add to it now......

best AV ive ever used, of course its free but not exactly

what was the error all about? it was crashing the webpage loading the mail, or what?

[eamo]

I tried Avast. It was fine. No problems.

I tried Avira. It protected me just fine, but had an annoying feature which interrupted whatever you were doing to inform you it had updated and would you like to buy the full version. Even bringing you out of a game and causing the game to crash! I couldn't find how to turn that notification off in options, so I ditched it.

Back to AVG again. I've never had any problems with it.

[bassexpander]

[Temporary]

I just Bought 5 licenses of Bitdefender. Its highly rated and its Very chap compared to a lot of other packages.

[bassexpander]

[cj1976]

http://www.elitekiller.com/files/disable_antivir_nag.htm
This is how to disable the nag screen on Avira. Worked for me.

[Temporary]

Wow bitdefender is awsome. You can even create little av network to control all av at the same time.

As for crashing on certain web pages disable the antiphishing. That should do it.

[cangel]

I also us BitDefender and love it. Great program. However, as I don't use Hanmail, I can't comment on your problem. Seems that Hanmail , from what everyone has told me, is pretty much a huge, steaming, piece of cr@p. I do, however, visit numerous Korean websites and haven't had a problem.

[bassexpander]

Well, bitdefender just pooped-out and closed itself on my work machine now (darkened icon). I'm glad I just decided to try it before buying it. That OS is in English, too.

[jvalmer]

I tried BitDefender, it was good on day one. But, on day 2, my Vista laptop took a long long time to boot up, about 10 minutes. So I dumped it. Right now I'm using AVG.

[cangel]

Kind of surprising you guys are having problems with BitDefender. I've been running it almost a year, with Vista, and have been visiting Korean sites without so much as a hiccup. Sorry to hear about your problems. As I mentioned before, I think it's an awesome program. Very light on your system and does an excellent job. Anyway, hope you can find one that works for you. BTW, I tried Kaspersky's free trial and it locked up my office computer running the scan for, what they estimated, would be 2 weeks. I quickly dumped it...

[bassexpander]

I'm running XP on both machines, if that makes a difference.

[itaewonguy]

I run Avast, use Ad aware, spybot, yahoo anti spy..

Ive never had a problem I couldnt fix..