can someone reccommend antivirus?

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• Linc Owner Detroit Icrontian

  March 2007 edited March 2007

  I'm running Kaspersky, personally. I can't really rate it on the resource-hog scale... it does fine on my system (3200+, 1GB memory). Looks like it takes about 30MB of memory.

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• Thrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian

  March 2007 edited March 2007

  If AVG is too much of a resource hog for their system, they're in for a world of hurt, as that's one of the most lightweight AV apps there is. My copy of AVG is using 4.6MB of RAM. 22 when scanning.

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• RichD Essex, UK

  March 2007 edited March 2007

  Thrax wrote:

  If AVG is too much of a resource hog for their system, they're in for a world of hurt, as that's one of the most lightweight AV apps there is. My copy of AVG is using 4.6MB of RAM. 22 when scanning.

  
  I think he ment Norton is to much of a memory hog.
  
  I use AVG and it does the job for me.

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• primesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian

  March 2007 edited March 2007

  Kaspersky is what I use at work, AVG at home. I personally think Kaspersky is more effective, but I can't afford five copies for home use

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• edcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian

  March 2007 edited March 2007

  Prime hit it on the nose. AVGfree is pretty good, it has kept my wife's computer clean.
  Kaspersky is more powerful, but so is AVGpro, and they both cost money.

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• Nomad A Small Piece of Hell Icrontian

  March 2007 edited March 2007

  I like AVG clean at home.

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• Trogan London, UK

  March 2007 edited March 2007

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• ronbo Connecticut

  March 2007 edited March 2007

  Trogan, I will give Avira a try. I have been using Avast Home for some time now and it seems to work good too.

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• Trogan London, UK

  March 2007 edited March 2007

  Let us know what you think.

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• troll Windsor, Nova Scotia Icrontian

  March 2007 edited March 2007

  Avast here on three machines, works great and it's free for home use.

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• Rustynuts

  March 2007 edited March 2007

  No votes for NOD32? I still use it and seems to do great, good support, daily or better virus updates. They used to be no. 1, still good?

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• Thrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian

  March 2007 edited March 2007

  They're great. Just not free.

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• oldguy2

  March 2007 edited March 2007

  Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic
  
  Gets 2 thumbs up !!! I used it on a test machine and it was grabbing anything and everything I tried to download, AVG is another good free program
  
  NOD32 usually ranks around the top but as stated just not free
  
  Don't forget a firewall,,

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• Mt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian

  March 2007 edited March 2007

  I had some weird problems with the last version of AVG free and Outlook. And I have now been running Avast free for several months with no complaints.

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• Osku_O

  March 2007 edited March 2007

  Avira AntiVir PersonalEdition Classic I like this one too

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