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well I've used norton for a while and if you've got a fast pc then it fine, but if your worried obout preformance loss stay away from norton. I've never used pc-cillin but I do use panda antivirus which also has a built in firewall, it uses up almost no system resources and gives me piece of mind, I have heard it works well but I'm no expret as long as it's there thats enought for me! If your not worried obout preformance i would recomend McAfee over Norton any day.

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I am surprised, no one has flamed this thread yet.. I personally use Norton 2003. I use to use Mcafee but changed up when I received norton for free.

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Norton, Nod32, Kaspersky.

But norton is a real steal right now.

For 23 dollars you can get norton system works 2003 from newegg if you buy a 5 dollar cable with it to allow you to get the OEM version. Not a bad deal considering you get Nav2k3 and norton ghost both of which are great products.

Alternatively at newegg you can get mcafee virus scan 7 for 14 dollars and buy a cheap 5 dollar cable for a total of 19 bucks.

Both great deals.

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McAfee On-line but, shop until you get it for $15 a year for 3 years.

Don't get suckered into giving them your charge card to automatically renew you at whatever price they want! And don't let them sell you any of their, "MUST HAVE" junk ware.

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OK, no one has said I will. AVG antivirus is the best. You can download it for free. And get updates a couple times a month. I have used it exclusively, after my experiences with McAfee and Norton. Both lowered my system performance. AVG has not.

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It doesn't lower your system performance because it isn't doing anything.

Let me quote myself from rage3d.

"For a better AV solution just download winamp and leave it in the system tray. It's about as effective as AVG at stopping viruses, and it can play music too :), but if you want your anti-virus program to actually stop viruses I'd look into getting something better."

Edit- I'm not going to look this time because I'm tired of looking, but there isn't one test that AVG beats NAV, Mcafee, Nod32, Kaspersky in outside of using less resources. Thats like saying well these condoms work but they cost 5 bucks, but I can get these free condoms here, but they fail 50% of the time. I'll take the free ones!

Sounds like a good solution huh?

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It doesn't lower your system performance because it isn't doing anything.

Let me quote myself from rage3d.

"For a better AV solution just download winamp and leave it in the system tray. It's about as effective as AVG at stopping viruses, and it can play music too :), but if you want your anti-virus program to actually stop viruses I'd look into getting something better."

Edit- I'm not going to look this time because I'm tired of looking, but there isn't one test that AVG beats NAV, Mcafee, Nod32, Kaspersky in outside of using less resources. Thats like saying well these condoms work but they cost 5 bucks, but I can get these free condoms here, but they fail 50% of the time. I'll take the free ones!

Sounds like a good solution huh?

LOL, this not the jokes and funny stuff section. :D

My AVG has done me well through out the time I have had it. It has stopped all viruses that entered my system. I download a lot. So viruses, trojans, worms, etc... are a concern. Truly, it is a good AV. It isn't as instrusive as NV or Mac. PCpitstop.com has an online AV that can also check your system for free. It uses Panda I believe.

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lol thats utter b*llocks, I know several AV admins who use AVG at home, including myself, and it's caught everything thats come in (I know because its part of my job to know what to look for).

It also does bloody well in (respectable) tests.

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lol thats utter b*llocks, I know several AV admins who use AVG at home, including myself, and it's caught everything thats come in (I know because its part of my job to know what to look for).

It also does bloody well in (respectable) tests.

what is b*llocks? I am not familiar....do you mean BS? like bullsh*t?

I agree totally dude. :yes:

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On Windows I used Norton AntiVirus Corporate in conjunction with my servers to get free, automatic updates and stuff. Now I use SystemWorks Something.0 on my Mac and works like a charm. Though I really don't need it seeing as how Macs rarely get viruses.

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Ahh you made me do it.

http://www.sald.com/tests.html

96.32% to NAV's 99.95 (althought this test looks like BS as all AV programs get over 90%. There's other tests on that page but they're all Virus Bulliten tests which leads us here:

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/pro...cts.xml?avg.xml

Here it has a historically craptacular 2 passes out of 21 tries. Quit possibly the worst record of them all.

http://www.hackfix.org/miscfix/icons-av-A_M.shtml

This is a trojan test. Granted AVG isn't a trojan scanner but I doubt most of you have a trojan scanner so it'd be nice if AVG protected you somewhat from them. 64% compared to NAV's 95%

http://trojaner-info.de/test_07_2001_kaumtrojan.shtml

Another trojan test thats unfortunately down ATM.

8.63% compared to NAV's 32%

http://agn-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/v.../vtc/naveng.htm

Fairly outdated. I wanted to link thier newest test but they didn't test AVG. Rest assured though AVG gets beaten in all tests by NAV in this one above though.

Then there's the trivial things like checkmark certifications which really mean jack, but hey, AVG aint got 'em.

But anyways, virus wise it's fairly close enough but it is horribly beaten when it comes to detecting trojans by pretty much everyone. I never found a good worm test, I doubt there is one, but consider how many trojans there are now. Shoot, a quick look in any forum shows almost the same amount of trojan infections as virus infections. I would like to have linked to more tests but AVG doesn't get compared as much to other AV programs in real tests(not the dumb test where some idiot reviewer rants about which one looks the prittiest and installs the fastest). It may be close to being a good virus scanner but it still falls behind all the major AV products, and throw in trojans and AVG completely loses.

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Trojans can generally be defended against by common sense macodin, worms+viruses by nature spread by them selfs. Come on, I'm sure you know this...!!!!

Detection of viruses + worms is the important feature. Trojan detection is a bonus for new / crap / uninterested users.

(editted for spelling. damit!)

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thanks all for turning this to a ongoing tread but................

no one as yet to commet or come up with test carried out on pc-cillin 2003 :D :whistle:

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thanks all for turning this to a ongoing tread but................

no one as yet to commet or come up with test carried out on pc-cillin 2003 :D :whistle:

I guess that cause no one uses it.. :whistle:

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