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MollyBloom
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 Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:25 am Post subject: free and reliable anti-virus program?? |
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My Norton ran out. Never had a problem with it.
I downloaded AVG because someone recommended it, but I don't think it's doing the job. Every day I am getting threats during the scans. If anyone can give me advice on how to make AVG run better, I'll stick with it.
If you can recommend a different program, please do! |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:32 am Post subject: |
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I've been using free AVG for 4 years without a problem.
Are you on XP or Vista? 32 bit or 64 bit? |
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phoneboothface
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 3:40 am Post subject: |
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AVG is good. Avira is good too, if you want another option...
A long time ago someone here said they thought Avira was better and why, but I can't remember the reasons. And an annoying popup comes up some times with Avira. That being said, every thing seems less... intrusive... with Avira compared to AVG.
I'm bored. |
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alphakennyone
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| I use avast. I did recently have to manually remove a malicious "process" awhile ago. |
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cubanlord
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
I've been using free AVG for 4 years without a problem.
Are you on XP or Vista? 32 bit or 64 bit? |
Vista, 64 bit |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| MollyBloom wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
I've been using free AVG for 4 years without a problem.
Are you on XP or Vista? 32 bit or 64 bit? |
Vista, 64 bit |
I'm Vista x64 too. AVG has always been good to me.
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| I downloaded AVG because someone recommended it, but I don't think it's doing the job. Every day I am getting threats during the scans. If anyone can give me advice on how to make AVG run better, I'll stick with it. |
I don't understand this. If you're getting warnings of viruses during the scans then AVG is doing its job!
You should turn off AVG's daily scan function. Too bothersome. Only run scans manually once a week or so. |
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MollyBloom
Joined: 21 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| MollyBloom wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
I've been using free AVG for 4 years without a problem.
Are you on XP or Vista? 32 bit or 64 bit? |
Vista, 64 bit |
I'm Vista x64 too. AVG has always been good to me.
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| I downloaded AVG because someone recommended it, but I don't think it's doing the job. Every day I am getting threats during the scans. If anyone can give me advice on how to make AVG run better, I'll stick with it. |
I don't understand this. If you're getting warnings of viruses during the scans then AVG is doing its job!
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Sorry, what I meant was that I feel like it's not blocking threats as well as my Norton program. For example, when I would scan with Norton, maybe 1 thing for cookies popped up every week or so. But with AVG, every day threats are getting through. I'm not techie, so I probably have no idea what I am talking about, but it's just something I noticed with the AVG program.
Since it seems all of the threats are from Firefox's cookies, what can I do to my computer to prevent the threats? I manually delete them, but they come back, so I think I have to change Firefox's settings?
BTW, the source is this:
c:\users\...\appdata\roaming\mozilla\firefox\profiles\fdb1v7cd.default\cookies.sqlite |
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eamo
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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Don't worry about cookies. They're tiny little things that don't really affect your computer in a bad way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
About every two weeks I run AVG and it usually finds a few dozen cookies. I delete them out of habit, but you don't really need to.
AVG separates actual harmful viruses from more benign stuff like cookies. So, after a scan, it might say no threats found, but it will have detected a lot of cookies which you can see if you click the Warnings tab. |
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blackjack
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| Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Those are just potential threats, most likely just cookies, you can just leave them. It's the infections you have to worry about |
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