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I've been using Avira Free for a while on all my machines. It's very unobtrusive and uses very little resources. I'm also a diehard fan of Zone Alarm. Once you get your programs set up, it's not too annoying.
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I wear a condom when I'm on the computer. Rick, does that help?
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When you're on the computer, or when you're ON the computer? I would imagine it would protect the computer in the second case, but I now have to go wash my brain out with borax.
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I'm using Microsoft Security Essentials now, but historically I haven't even used an anti-virus program. I've only gotten viruses a couple of times over the years, and I was thankfully able to get rid of the viruses by temporarily installing an anti-virus program then uninstalling it immediately afterward. Well, one of the viruses required finding the right program that could deal with the specific virus, but that was the only hiccup. I guess that's the problem with trying to choose one anti-virus program. If you encounter a virus it can't deal with yet, you need to install another program, anyway.
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Very true. FYI, everyone, the best tool I've seen for dealing with the fake antivirus type viruses (if you have a program that says you need to enter your credit card to get rid of a virus, uh, use your brain...) is Malwarebytes. It doesn't do much else that I know of, but it takes out those bastards like nothing else.
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AVG user here on our Windows XP, Vista64 and Windows 7 machines. Overall very happy with it after using it for a couple of years. I've heard other liking Avast too.
I will have to check out Malwarebytes though. My oldest daughter (heck, my mother for that matter too) seems to like finding the sites that put spyware/malware on to the computer.
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I haven't ever tried the paid version with active protection; we use it as a single run utility.
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Very true. FYI, everyone, the best tool I've seen for dealing with the fake antivirus type viruses (if you have a program that says you need to enter your credit card to get rid of a virus, uh, use your brain...) is Malwarebytes. It doesn't do much else that I know of, but it takes out those bastards like nothing else. The smart IT guy at work, not the ones in control also recommends Malware, and found a very nasty bug and did a "bugs be gone" with it on my work machine. I have a copy at home now.
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I use Bitdefender. It gets excellent reviews. I use Bitdefender as well, no complaints Mel
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ESET. small footprint. fast. works for me.
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