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I'd never just use an anti-virus alone, anyway. One should also have stuff like Spybot, Ad-Aware and MalBytes.
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AwesomusPrime notes: If you're using 64 bit windows you will not get a virus. What you are worried about is spyware/malware and anything purporting itself to be an anti-virus doesn't necessarily watch for those. Believe me, one of my jobs is doing virus removals at a major PC retailer and most of the time the person whose machine I'm working on has AVG on it, and is riddled with malware. Very few actual virus' work in the 64 bit environment, almost all malware does. Make sure whatever you settle on has a decent malware component. Last I looked into it, antivir and MSE came up on tops for malware, with antivir being preferred. I use MSE. The others have paid versions. You're not going to give away what someone will pay you for. I don't trust the free version of anything that has a paid version to give me 100%. Similar arguments could be made for MSE I know, but at the end of the day I'm still not paying for protections. Also MSE cannot be easily turned off as it kind of... integrates with windows. That means I won't forget to turn it back on. |
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I've seen recent reviews that Norton is now lean, mean and efficient.|
Originally Posted by Decorum
Macafee and Norton were good for their day, but their day was a decade ago and they've become these monstrous system hogs I won't even look at anymore.
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I have no personal experience since I ditched it years ago when the bloat started.
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Originally Posted by Decorum
I should give that a try. It started to annoy me a little when they switched AVG so I could no longer just shut off the various pieces in my Task Master. Good program, otherwise. Macafee and Norton were good for their day, but their day was a decade ago and they've become these monstrous system hogs I won't even look at anymore.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
I've seen recent reviews that Norton is now lean, mean and efficient.
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I've run a full system scan while playing CoH. It took a long time, but it completed and it didn't slow the game enough to be noticeable (except on load times, it added another 5-10 seconds to those).
As far as free; you get what you pay for. It might be functional, but it's not likely that it's efficient or effective.
Used to use AVG, but I use Avira and Avast now. All free.
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Originally Posted by Kioshi
I use Eset Smart Security (the more 'complete' version of NOD32). Doesn't seem to slow my system down, not bloated, daily updates, but not free either.
Found an interesting article about differences on suites, free programs, simple antivirus, etc. and its from April 21st, more than 30 reviews. |
Some systems have a problem with Nod, although it is a very good antivirus and uses nill for resources, i have noticed on some systems.
It disconnects you for a fraction of a second. The web page pause for some people might not even be noticed but for others i can stop downloads or shut down air cards and they have to reconnect.
I never fully tracked it down to what was causing it. Since the 2 pc's this was affecting were my brothers it was just as simple to switch them over to symantic.
To OP, Norton 2009-2010 is a very good antivirus, not sure where you live but BJ's wholesale has 3 license box for a fair price. 2010 is a very low resource user and will pretty much shut off when it detects the game starting up, so it wont be a problem at all for CoH
Do not use an Norton product from 2006-2008 they were end pigs and no io on the planet could help with the stamina problem lol and MCafee is horrible a definate nono
Is there any way to disable Avira popup?
I use a program called malwarebytes (www.malwarebytes.org). Over the last couple years it has been extremely reliable on my boxes and other people's machines I've had to clean up, consistently finding and killing stuff that walked right through norton and mcafee. You can get a free version that only does on-demand scans or one that runs in the background for $25 one-time fee.
I use Microsoft Security Essentials, doesn't bog down your system and works. Also updates at least once a day. I've also used Malwarebytes(Free version) in the past and it works very well.
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It does seem to wait for the most inopportune moments, doesn't it... I think it waits until you're in a TF or a ship raid to pop up.
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Originally Posted by NordBlast
Is there any way to disable Avira popup?
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I would also add that avira offers a free scanner that you can download and burn as a bootable CD. It's a really good idea to grab it, burn it and set it aside while your system is healthy because by the time you need it your system will probably be too wrecked to get on the internet and get it.
If you do get something nasty like rootkit malware on your system there's a good chance it will prevent you from using any effective cleanup tools while running the infected windows install.
Running a scanner from a bootable CD won't completely clean an infected windows install but what it will do is find and delete enough of the bad files to cripple the infection enough to then boot into windows and use your other tools.
The avira CD can be found here:
http://www.avira.com/en/support/support_downloads.html
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Originally Posted by MrNoj
As far as free; you get what you pay for. It might be functional, but it's not likely that it's efficient or effective.
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As for me, count me in the camp that uses Avira. I think it is fantastic.
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Originally Posted by NordBlast
Is there any way to disable Avira popup?
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Also OP, I use Comodo Firewall(again free), and I have found it to be an excellent tool.
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As far as free; you get what you pay for. It might be functional, but it's not likely that it's efficient or effective.
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I've had Avast and Avira and AVG and they've found stuff that Norton did not. If you keep it up to date you should be good, regardless of how much you personally choose to pay for it.
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AV/anti-malware is definitely a major exception to the rule of getting what you pay for. The major AV suites, in order to justify continual payments and upgrades bloat and bloat until they become huge, resource sucking monsters that cling to windows like an alien facehugger.
I currently use ClamWIN and have been pretty happy with it.
I also use a program called WinPatrol. What WinPatrol does is monitor all of the start-up locations in your PC (e.g., Startup folder, Run key in registry, services, etc.) and notifies you when something tries to register itself to start automatically with Windows. You can choose to allow the program/service to start with Windows, or deny it. This functionality is included in the free version, but I highly recommend the for-pay version that has many more very useful features, such as Killbox, HiJack This log generation, showing hidden files and many others. The best part is that the program costs only $30 for every PC you own. That's not $30 per PC, but $30 total to install it on every PC you own.
I have used ClamWIN in the past and I thought it did an excellent job. It is a good program.
I use Computer Associates Threat Manager 8.1, tbh I preferred the 7.1 engine but they stopped supporting that almost 2yrs ago (aka InoculateIT back in the day). Its still pretty good though, and doesn't chew up a lot of resources.
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I use Eset Smart Security (the more 'complete' version of NOD32). Doesn't seem to slow my system down, not bloated, daily updates, but not free either.
Found an interesting article about differences on suites, free programs, simple antivirus, etc. and its from April 21st, more than 30 reviews.