[quote]Back-up your impotent stuff.quote]

Quite true , cause my potent stuff can take care of itself

yeppers! I got the trial a few weeks ago and love it. It has caught things that the others simply didn't catch. It also leave a fraction of the footprint that the others do. As soon as my trial is up I will be purchasing this one.

Norton '08 review

Norton Internet security 2008 is excellent. When I got my computer in'06 it came with a trial of Mcafee. I hated it. It constantly bothered me and it slowed my computer down to a crawl. I didn't get any malware though. Then I got Norton '07, and now I have '08. I have never had any type of virus on my computer. Also, Norton internet security '08 is not a resource hog.

Thats what Norton lets you beleave.


Deep with in your computer it is crying for help.  

Just thought I would add another piece of advice. No matter what AV software or for that fact any spyware programs you run, you always have a double check. as it were, on how safe you are.

Maybe once every couple of months I run Windows Live One Care Safety Scanner. It's free and you don't download it to you computer. Now you can make an argument about how good the saftey scanner is but running it will give you an idea of how good your on board virus and malware programs are. If you run it and it doesn't find anything you have reason to feel okay.   

I'm sure there are other programs out there that can do the same. Anyone have some alternatives?

There is none ,no av i'm aware of can protect you from user stupidity,best advice i could give is invest in imaging software,preferably do an image after a new install.My choice of AV @ the mo is clamwin



free:
xxclone

bought:
acronis
ghost


Edit: forgot to mention too,have more than one image or backup

I really appreciate Mail Washer Pro. It allows you to read or delete your email without downloading it from the server. A virus can't get to you if you don't download it. You can even answer emails without downloading them.

There's a free version too!

Anything BUT Norton... I like Avira over AVG tho
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McAfee VirusScan

My group swears by it, including a professional network admin. .

Avoid Norton: it corrupts your network dlls which can and reliably causes rafts of problems gaming (from first-hand experience).

le meilleur antivirus c'est toi!!!!!!
surveile ton surf!!!!
si tu veux des antivir gratuit je te fais un post!!

AVG free user for years until 8.0, then had nothing but problems. Got Kaspersky on a recommendation from a friend and have been happy ever since.

If you don't mind pay a little penny I'll say McAfee. It also comes with Firewall build-in and other handy tools in one so you don't have to install multiply security apps which can take up precious horse-power of you PC.


Norton is an OS killer, not recommeneded. So many have their system destroyed :-/

Really its very Wonderful. But instead of this, I was utilizing www.search-and-destroy.com anti-spyware software which is also FREE to doenload and I am free from undesirable traffics. Advice to use same.

Am i the only one who doesnt use one?

I find them a total pain - tend to only use a malware/spyware checker from time to time

Above - search and destroy works well

I don't use it either. Properly configured and with decent user habits, very few viruses can actually spread. Virus scanners kill your system performance and in general cause more problems then they solve (like AVG this week removing critical windows files and trashing systems).