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Canadian Rifle
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hey guys i have McAfee anti-virus which i am paying for but now my subscription had expred and i dont have the money yet to renew my subscription does anyone have any suggestion for any free good anti viruses that i could use in the time between?? 
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John Doe
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:35 am Post subject: |
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Well......
You can purchase an OEM Version of McAfee from most computer stores for about $10 Cdn, thats what I recently did. I got tired of Norton as it was a pig.
If not, you can look at a free one called AVG from Grissoft, its pretty good.
Heres the linky. http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
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MunkeyEye
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:35 am Post subject: |
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| how about trendmicro and trendmicro.com? They have a free online virus checking setup. |
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Canadian Rifle
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:44 am Post subject: |
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i had norton and trendmicro before and norton fried my hard drive and before that corrupted windows and trendmicro had a virus of itself in my computer but i got avg for now and i bought mcafee for 60 bucks at best buy!(it was not $10 lol)
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John Doe
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:45 am Post subject: |
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| MunkeyEye wrote: | | how about trendmicro and trendmicro.com? They have a free online virus checking setup. |
Im all for the free scanners but I think thats sorta like closing the barn door after the goat has escaped.
I would rather have something running and activly scanning, but a free scanner done on a regular basis is better than nothing.
Actually, Besides Trendmicros housecall I think Symantac and Mcafee and several others also have free online scans.
Also, most of the vendors allow you do download their software and run it on a trial basis for 15-30 days, so that might be useful too.
JD
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Malanthros
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Yeah, I like Trend Micro, besides that I run Spybot and Ad-Aware every other day.
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Greebo
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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www.avast.com
Free for home users - so far it's been more reliable than norton ever was.
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Mike
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Greebo wrote: | www.avast.com
Free for home users - so far it's been more reliable than norton ever was. |
ya, i've heard nothing but good things about that, but im fine with my norton now.
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DukeNukem
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Greebo wrote: | www.avast.com
Free for home users - so far it's been more reliable than norton ever was. |
Great link Greebo!!
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LJ
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| I never use anti-virus software. They're more annoying than the viruses. Just watch what you do and do regular scans with spybot type software and you'll be fine. |
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Replica
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| LJ wrote: | | I never use anti-virus software. They're more annoying than the viruses. Just watch what you do and do regular scans with spybot type software and you'll be fine. |
now we all know who to direct our attacks to...
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Rough Justice
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I dumped Norton at work and switch the whole company to Trend Micro - I have had zero problems - at home I use AVG, Windows Spyware beta and Windows firewall. Keeps me clean and running. I do like the PCilin from Trend Micro too - all the sales guys have it on there laptops - and you sales guys get lonely on the road and surf porn |
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mUj0
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Rough Justice wrote: | | - at home I use AVG, Windows Spyware beta and Windows firewall. Keeps me clean and running. I |
same here.. zero problems, runs smooth, regular scans every day, and checks for updates 24/7
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Canadian Rifle
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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anyone kno where i could get some good avatrs for my profile i cant find any !
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| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 11:40 am Post subject: |
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I have Norton Internet Security 2005...plus other cyber mines and booby traps for the ...."Guests" ....or... "Visitors"....just a warm welcome dont u think?...
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