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[Dog]

Hey all.

I've currently got AVG 8 on here, and well, its not good enough...

Is there anything any of you computer boffs can recoment thats a very powerful, and something that will be VERY VERY thourigh?

Also, is there anything out there for fault finding?

M<y PC is still freezing on random internet sites, and its starting to annoy me now.

I have Window Vista.

Cheers.
Mart

[johnrb5191]

i use bullguard and have never had a problem in the 3 years i have been useing it

[Dog]

I am using Firefox

I cleared it out not so long ago, and did the usewell maintencatce, like de-frag etc.

It sometime happens when loading up TomTom too, just freezes as its loading something up. I have a "CPU" gadget, and I can see, I am not over working the PC or anything..

I just want something that will actually just dystory whats not meant to be in my PC! AUG has been good in the past, but I just don't think its as good as it was. Plus its decided to stop updating now, which is annoying too.

I don't mind payiong for a Anti-Virus, as long as its not stupid prices!

[cap'n crunch]

If you are willing to pay i would say Kaspersky or McAfee.

For free then i would go for Avast! (which is what i use)

[Minisniper]

Hiya
I use McAfee and have done for years, got it on both my machines. One running with xp and the other running with vista ultimate x64 and it keeps my systems healthy.
I have used AVG, Kaspersky, Bullguard, Norton and NOD 32 and to be honest I always come back to McAfee, knowing I will have trouble free systems.

Minisniper

[Ollie]

i use avast. i have used the likes of kapersky, norton, avg, mcafee and nod32

for me this is by far the best.

in my opinion of course

[Dog]

got Avest on in the back ground...

Thje fact its scanned 35000 files, and still says 21% is good enough! AVG would of finished by now!

[Ollie]

so you use avast and avg? do they not conflict?

[Dog]

ATM, they don't seem to of conflicted....

[r_i_c_h_1]

No doubt about it Kaspersky is the best. I think the freezing has more to do with Vista! It doesn't take well to lower-powered computers, especially if you don't have a decent amount of RAM or a CPU with a high(ish) FSB. I'll stop boring you now! lol. But would recommend removing any unnecessary programs.

[Sleepy Stu]

got Avest on in the back ground...

Thje fact its scanned 35000 files, and still says 21% is good enough! AVG would of finished by now!

Lol thats cause your doing a full scan with Avast but it may be you were only doing a quick scan with AVG

Ive used AVG for years now combined with Windows firewall and ive had windows defender since its beta was first released. Have never had a single problem ever in the last 4 years?

However i am still running XP pro so i would be inclined to think that the problems your having with AVG at the moment are Vista related?

All i can say is bring on Windows 7 then we can discard Vista as a huge white elephant, just as we did with windows millenium!

[Dog]

the spec of this PC is:

Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Processor Q6600 (2.4Ghz). 3Gb DDR2 RAM. 1Tb (1000Gb) SATA hard drive. 19in LCD monitor with 8m response rate. DVD+/-RW double layer. Nvidia GeForce 8400GS graphics card. 52-in-1 card reader. Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium.

Unless anyone knows where I can get the offical spec from the PC?

[Ouster]

AVG is great. It picks up everything for me, and isn't bloated like some other anti virus programs (Norton for example).