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    Which Virus Software Should I Get for My Vista Sony TZ?

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by renegrub, Sep 24, 2007.

  1. renegrub

    renegrub Notebook Enthusiast

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    It came with Norton as you are all aware. Question is, which should I go with? Should I get rid of Norton? Should I go with Microsoft's virus software? McAffee? A different version of Norton?

    Any suggestions? I want the one that does the job with the least amount of intrusions or system slowdown. Appreciate the help.
     
    renegrub, Sep 24, 2007
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    renegrub Notebook Enthusiast

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    Also - should I get rid of Microsoft Defender? Does it really help or does it slow my system down?
     
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  3. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    I'd say get rid of Norton...my best recommendations for antivirus on Windows are Kaspersky and NOD32, look at those two. Light on resources, quick and always the fastest at up-to-date virus definitions.

    But if you want to keep with something you've heard of (NOD32 and Kaspersky aren't as well known), I'd suggest Symantec AV (which is the corporate version of Norton, same company, much better AV), and Trend Micro.
     
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    renegrub Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just the Antivirus versions or Internet Security versions?
     
    renegrub, Sep 24, 2007
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    bananapudding Notebook Consultant

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    AVG baby! Used to use Avast but kept having to look up my free key and had problems with the licensing module (even though its freeware).
    Why pay for an anti-virus program? Everything else is built into Windows as of Vista.
     
    bananapudding, Sep 24, 2007
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    Babydarklord Notebook Evangelist

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    AntiVir Personal Edition that's the one that im trying to used right now it's fast update it's also a Freeware and also has light on resources. works on this OS Windows 2000/XP/Vista/XP64/Vista64 .
     
    Babydarklord, Sep 25, 2007
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    CLiFFEX Notebook Enthusiast

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    License renewal only happens once a year, and Avast has been working great for me. I vote Avast(home edition).
     
    CLiFFEX, Sep 25, 2007
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    I've said this before but I'll second the votes for NOD32 - it's what I running on my TZ. Very low overhead and always up to date (sometimes updates several times a day).
     
    richyhu, Sep 25, 2007
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  9. Phil

    Phil Retired

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    Most people who recommend a virus scanner have really never put it to the test.

    When I tested Norton, Nod32, Avast, Avira, AVG they were disabled by a trojan within 1 second.

    The only program that actually protected me was Kaspersky.
     
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  10. System64

    System64 Windows 7 x64

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    The topic is a bit weird...which virus software.

    In any case, I vote for Avast Antivirus for the active web scanner.
     
    System64, Sep 25, 2007
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