Thats a new one

yeah it is pretty crap i used it for like half a day then reformated and cleaned out all the junk eewww

 

Geez, I hate to hear that

I've been using AVG (free) for about 8 months(just downloaded the latest version) and I havn't had any problems, but I haven't had to fix anything with it either

Are you sure because your word carries a lot of weight

If your sure, can you suggest another?

 

No not a joke
It just didnt fulfill my needs.
Kaspersky is one of the best av's around. Not free ofcourse and updated weekly.
Black ice is firewall or av I've kind of forgotten? Either way it's meant to be good.
As for me I just use the crappy nortons suite (all in one) only because I like the look of it. However everything else is patched up and I found out that closing port 1025 and a few others does help a little as well. Besides alot of routers/cable modems have firewalls. How good they are? Errrr that's all I will say... tsk tsk. Alot of av's find the virus but don't completely get rid of it.
Just my personal opionions anyway.
As for *pron* sites.............. I will keep quiet about it

 

There is nothing wrong with AVG.

Its a free, "no-frills" AV.

Nothing more, nothing less.

Has the same removal power as other AVs.

Black Ice is a joke, unless they improved themselves immensely in the last few years

 

Zone alarm was voted best yes, as for most of these companies they frankly try and jam too much into one package these days. They should just stick to one thing and be good at it.
Never used black ice but yes , did hear good things about it.
I still stand with Kaspersky.
Yes norton is b***s*it but somewhat real user friendly, not too bad with updates, worm protections, with 2005 suite, but a real pain when uninstalled. Sometimes it's just better to simply format if you don't know what you're exactly doing.
AVG like I said, tried once. Had a virus stuck in my system restore. Turned off scaned cleaned, kept reappearing so format was the best option. Anyway I think every 3 month a format should be applied no matter what protection you have and how well you mantain and clean your system. There is just too many registry entries, hidden folders and many more traces left. Let's be frank, 40% and that's at least computer users just aren't that knowledgable. While I am at it without hijacking and changing post rather then writing a thread with no need and therefore spamming.
What is a good program to clean out absoultely everything without remembering what you installed, when, etc. I mean it's sometimes impossible to keep track of it when you're on cable conection and like to experiment.
Ok too long post, starting to not make sence now

 

Well my harddrive isn't exactly big. 80 Gb only. I don't do anything near what you do but i do install alot of crap to try out and games. Also my pc tends to get used buy everyone on the house! A little hard to control. Hehe. So far I have been lucky since chaslang helped me clean out vx2 but how does 2350 blocked popups sound!! Lol
Besides I have got so many background processes runing that it's not absolutely funny anymore.
Anyway enough with my crap already.....

 

The problem isn't the av its the person always is. .
If you really need it that bad
eyeball porn on someone elses pc

 

Mine is 40GB.

I'm fine.

 

*smirk*

bombarded eh? Bombastic more like!

How are you, MA, and CP? More titbits like that would be good, perhaps we could have a special section, dumbass emails sent to MG

 

Yes golfish, but how much do you let your hdd fill up before you actually burn it onto disc and free up space. Do you have 100Gb of music and 60Gb of pron and not to mention movies. Everything you download onto a computer leaves something. Some you can delete manualy some with registry cleaners some within i.e tools. *cough cough*

 

Oh BOY!!!!!, do I feel like a fool

Here I thought the original post was an declaration from a head honcho(insert "embarrassed" smily here)

Live & learn, live & learn

 

Scorcer you spammer

 

"its really all in fun, since you will find I like self deficating (spelled right?) humor myself. "


Well, it's either self deprecating or self defecating, somewhere in between lies meaning.

Been around here for a while, haven't noticed you dissing anyone undeserved; but then I'm notoriously thick skinned

 

PC World wrung out Norton, Trend, McAfee, and AVG AV software last summer, with viruses, worms, and trojans. Norton ranked best at identifying and stopping infection of all kinds (and also at tying up the most resources), but not at removing infections once bitten. Trend was slightly behind at identifying, but better at removal. McAfee came in third. AVG ranked very well at identifying viruses and worms, but suprprisingly only identified 20% of the trojans they threw at it. 20% is way too low to make me comfortable.

Now, that was AVG version 6. Version 7 may do better with trojans, but I'm currently using Trend's PC-Cilin.

 

Haha!
I was taken in by this post. I had just reformatted and reinstalled ME for this lady who is a friend of my mother's. I of course put on AVG. Then, I read this, think... "Oh, NO!"... hehehe. Good to know for certain that this was one of those e-mails the lamers send in.

Hehe. I have no real experience with ME. Everybody hates it. It was a clean install, and the install of the drivers for her Epson printer was problematic (though eventually successful). The lady hasn't the horsepower for XP. What can one do? I almost suggested 98. I did dual-boot her with a linux distro, complete with the freely available (from here, MajorGeeks) GAG boot loader. Quite a thrill that was.

Won't get too far, though. She's an AOL fan. Loves all that AOL stuff. She's an old lady, doesn't want to experiment much.

haha! AVG is spyware!
That's a good one!
LOL!

 

I used the free AVG for a while. I found that the new version slowed my rig to
a crawl during the scans. Didn't get the porn. Avg was taking up to eight
min. to do a scan on a 40gb hdd.The M$ beta AV does the same scan in less
than 3mins. Catches more stuff. Spybot has found nothing since the M$ AV
was installed. Adaware has only turned up a couple of nasties. Spyblaster seems to workwell. I don't keep any personal info on my machine.

 

I wonder what kind of porn AVG installed on that guys's computer...LOL

 

LOL To defecate is to go to the can so self defecate is to dump in your pants. What you want is deprecate.

 

Maybe it was a nude trojan?

 

Hey MA, perhaps somewhere on the main page, you could have a link to a page that has like "the hatemail of the week" or something. And you could respond to it. Not in a supportive type of way, seeing as how thats what the forums are for, but telling them how the stuff they say is impossible and describe why they are totally wrong. It would be a great laugh, and perhaps a great way to deal with those emails lol.

Btw, http://desmondp.host-dot.com/index.php?p=9 which proves theres nothing wrong with free AVs.

 

http://www.trojangames.co.uk/
Maybe this the kind of AV site they need.

 

Maybe they meant avi....

 

I like NeoNemisis's idea,

But,, I won't be fooled again

@Robster12-- at least you didn't post to it like I did,,,

 

Looks like someone didn't have a coffee today

 

Maybe not, but, my heart SANK! I thought to myself: Oh no. now I gotta find a sufficient subsitute for all the Windows rigs that I end up working on (thanks to my Mom! ).

hahaha. I thought... I've been "out of the loop", missed the downfall of the great Spybot proggy. They sold out, bigtime!

aw. geeze, you guys are cards, I tell ya! hahaha!

 

ouch! I'm interested in what you find out, I use ZA free, but I've been having those symptoms, I just assumed it was my dial-up

 

That's cool, then I will stay as I am

 

ROTFL!!!!

thanks, I needed that!