View Poll Results: Which AV Program is better???

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  • Norton AV

    23 67.65%

  • AVG

    8 23.53%

  • McAfee

    3 8.82%
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Thread: Which is better???

  1. 11-13-2002, 12:40 AM #1
    embj
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    Which is better???

    Some people say AVG is better. Some people say Norton AV is better. What do you all think???
    Last edited by embj; 11-19-2002 at 12:45 AM.
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  2. 11-13-2002, 02:21 AM #2
    ipentium5
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    PCWORLD say that NAV is the best there is. Can I ask you a question!? What is AVG?
    There are only 3 ways, the right way, the wrong way, and my way.
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  3. 11-13-2002, 02:27 AM #3
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    AVG is a free antivirus program:

    http://www.grisoft.com/html/us_index...0585d94f2be1b6

    I personally like NAV. I use both the home and corporate versions. Very good support and frequent updates. They also have a lot of free tools for removing viruses.

    www.sarc.com
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  4. 11-13-2002, 06:59 AM #4
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    Me too. I have the 2003 version. I use norton since the DOS days.
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  5. 11-13-2002, 06:58 PM #5
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    I dont like NAV czu it slow down on startup. And it annoying when it take long time to open the NAV. Plus i dont get virus taht easy which is no point to have NAV. SO i use AVG czu it FREE
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  6. 11-13-2002, 08:21 PM #6
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    I NAV 2003
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  7. 11-13-2002, 09:27 PM #7
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    I've used both, and am using AVG now. It work's well and I get updates on all the time
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  8. 11-14-2002, 11:04 AM #8
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    How about Sophos - thats good AV product.

    On the site I run we use a mixture of Mcafee 4.5.0 and 4.5.1

    It picks up everything
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  9. 11-14-2002, 05:09 PM #9
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    Originally posted by Smadguy
    How about Sophos - thats good AV product.

    On the site I run we use a mixture of Mcafee 4.5.0 and 4.5.1

    It picks up everything
    Sophos???
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  10. 11-15-2002, 09:26 PM #10
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    http://www.sophos.com/
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  11. 11-15-2002, 10:06 PM #11
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    wow, this is like the 100000000 thread on this


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  12. 11-15-2002, 10:48 PM #12
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    I know there have been a bunch of posts about this. I just cannot remember them that well. And since then NAV 2003 and McAfee 7.0 have came out. Like anyone would vote for McAfee.

    I have just became concerned seeing that I had a trojan and a virus on both of my comps on the same day. Only the virus could be cleaned. It was the W32.HLLW.Hai. The backdoor.trojan had infected about 15-20 of my files already. Norton kept on coming up with Norton AV found backdoor.trojan. It would never go away so I could clean it. It always locked up the comp. So I ended up formatting and reinstalling.
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  13. 11-15-2002, 11:03 PM #13
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    Sorry to hear that, try getting a firewall
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  14. 11-15-2002, 11:40 PM #14
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    I've got plenty of firewalls. I've got McAfee Firewall 3, the one on XP, and the one on my D-Link DI-704P router which I share my cable internet from.
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  15. 11-16-2002, 01:00 AM #15
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    Norton, even though it's bloatware.

    Much better than the more bloated Mcoffee virusland.
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