what anti-virus program do you have on your computer?
By kerryq2705
@kerryq2705 (8672)
United States
33 responses
@kerryq2705 (8672)
• United States
4 Nov 06
Really? I have never heard that it slows down your system. I think maybe I will uninstall it and see if my system is faster and if it is I will go with Mcafee. Thanks for the helpful info :) Thanks for your response :)
@kerryq2705 (8672)
• United States
4 Nov 06
Thanks for the info I guess maybe Nortons is what is slowing down my computer.
@all_n_one (2003)
• United States
4 Nov 06
Actually mcafee isn't rated close to #1 kaspersky is. Norton does slow down computers allot also.
@kerryq2705 (8672)
• United States
4 Nov 06
It seems like a lot of ppl aren't happy with Nortons, I think its time for a change...lol I'm going to check out AVG. thanks for the response :)
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@Koren30654 (43)
• Canada
4 Nov 06
McAfee is another good one, but I have Norton Internet Security 2006
@asimo603 (1366)
• Malaysia
22 Nov 06
I have Nortons Anti Virus for my desktop and McAfree for my laptop.
@quink82001 (2938)
• United States
4 Nov 06
I had Nortons but it just expired so I need to renew it. right now I don't have anything for virus protection.
@angeliamj (632)
• United States
4 Nov 06
Well IMHO, Norton sucks unless you're able to get a copy of the military's Symantic. I had it, but deleted it thinking it wasn't working, so I loaded regular Norton on my system. Then today, everything was running slow, I did a virus scan, a spyware scan, ect. and it all came up clear. I checked around and not many people care for Norton these days. I removed it from my computer and loaded Panda, within 2 minutes of having it downloaded it detected 3 viruses, and fixed them. Computers running great now!!!
@kerryq2705 (8672)
• United States
4 Nov 06
I'll have to check this one out too, its it a free one? yeah I have heard a lot of ppl arent' happy with Nortons so maybe I should look into something different. Maybe Nortons is whats slowing down my computer. Thanks for your response :)
@kerryq2705 (8672)
• United States
4 Nov 06
I have heard it's better than Nortons I didn't know that. I think i'm going to have to try mcafees anti virus. Thanks for your response :)
@kerryq2705 (8672)
• United States
4 Nov 06
I haven't heard of it I will have to check this one out. Thanks for your response :)
@aloksharma (21)
• India
4 Nov 06
According to me Norton isnt really effective cosidering the resources that it uses.
I have NOD32 AntiVirus on my system. Lite and pretty effective.And yes time to time online virus scans are always advisable.....
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@jonas_71ss (174)
• Virgin Islands (U.S.)
4 Nov 06
An excellent Anti-Spyware that I use is
AdAware. I also use AVG Anti-Virus. Both can be downloaded and updated free of charge on a routine basis.
They work great, and I usually run them every couple of weeks just to keep my system totally secure and clean.
@kerryq2705 (8672)
• United States
4 Nov 06
I have heard of Adware but haven;t heard of AVG. Thanks for your response :)
@milott (2646)
• India
23 Nov 06
I use a free anti-virus program call Avast Antivirus which is free for home users. It is quite a decent antivirus program and does its and value for free. Sometimes I feel it is better than the paid antivirus programs. The updates are prompt, sometimes daily. The best part of it is its alert in which a voice over tells you about a virus found. It has cool interface and skin, which is interchangeable. But it is free only for the home users, for business users they have some charges. I would definitely recommend this antivirus for all, if you feel you don’t want to go for paid antivirus programs.
