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Definitive Best Antivirus 2010

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Definitive Best Antivirus 2010  

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  1. 1. Your Choice?

    • Antivir
      86
    • Avast!
      122
    • AVG
      36
    • BitDefender
      10
    • Clamwin
      4
    • F-Secure
      4
    • Kaspersky
      117
    • McAfee
      5
    • NOD32
      272
    • Norton
      86
    • Panda
      7
    • Sophos
      7
    • Symantec (Corporate)
      19
    • Trend
      7
    • VBA32
      1
    • Zone
      1
    • Microsoft Security Essentials
      558
    • Other (please specify)
      33

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Barney T. Administrators

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An updated "Best Antivirus" for 2010. Please use this as a reference when researching antivirus utilities. As time goes on, the poll can be updated to add further options.

Happy Voting.

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MSE & Threatfire (for some reason running TF lowers my Ram use by 200mb's or more) and i then use online scans here and there, just to double check. also running most of the top rated antispyware scanners available every once in a while.

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COKid

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Common sense is the best AV. Period. None of the products listed is perfect, so I sure as hell wouldn't spend money on any of them. So for me, it's MSE, Sandboxie, and Firefox w/NoScript.

After many years of using it, I have found NOD32 to be over-hyped and over-priced for what it actually does.

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Technique

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Installed FREE Avast a month ago.

Now i'm getting registration/activation notices which i've just looked in to disabling as they're irritating (don't want to pay for a program - hence FREE software required).

Noticed the program itself now no longer updates & it's no good if you've an anti virus program that wont stay up to date.

So any FREE suggestions?

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+jamesyfx Subscriber²

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You need to register Avast free with a product key, all you have to do is fill out a form and then you'll get one. You need to do it every year.

http://www.avast.com/registration-free-antivirus.php

Just a little bit of effort for something free. :p

Tbh it should have said this when you first downloaded it and installed it.

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D.J.P

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+1 on Comodo Internet Security, otherwise get MSE. Both are fine in my book. :)

Looking at changing form Kaspersky A/V (license expired - no money to renew), does the trail version of Comodo Internet Security stop running after 30 days, or just lose access to any paid features?

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MR_Candyman

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Looking at changing form Kaspersky A/V (license expired - no money to renew), does the trail version of Comodo Internet Security stop running after 30 days, or just lose access to any paid features?

There is a 100% free, no spam popup ads version of both AV and IS packages. They even have more free stuff

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D.J.P

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so in other words, just install the packages separately?

Another question, strange as it may be, can the A/V update source be changed and can you get the updates manually?

Reason is, cause with Kaspersky I have a updater program download updates, then my 3 installations got their updates from the local source (saves me internet bandwidth since updates are downloaded only once)

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