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Hey, I've been having a few virus-related problems :ugh: with my PC lately, I'm thinking of getting it checked out soon. Before I do, I thought I'd ask what you guys use for your active virus protection. Could you recommend a good, free/cheap program?
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| 29 Mar 2012, 04:35 PM |
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Microsoft Security Essentials. Free, works well.
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whatever you do make sure it's not a worm or it'll skrew up all of you stuff
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AVG is like a virus itself, not in the aspect that it does anything bad, that you can't disable it if you need to, or stop it for a few minutes, and it's a pain the anus to remove.
I have never had a virus, I use Malwarebytes (PRO), and Microsoft Security Essentials, as long as you have legitimate Windows then MSE is free. If it says something is a virus, it is. There are very rarely any false-positives.
Don't use Avast, ever. It's a memory whore. It flags anything as a virus and makes you shit yourself.
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| 29 Mar 2012, 07:37 PM |
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Best anti-virus is common sense. Don't download anything that you think might be a virus, no matter how enticing it may be.
I only use MSE as "back-up" to my common sense, if I DL something that I think is safe, and it thinks otherwise, it will tell me, which has only happened twice, over the period of ~2 years.
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PirateEggs Wrote:AVG is like a virus itself, not in the aspect that it does anything bad, that you can't disable it if you need to, or stop it for a few minutes, and it's a pain the anus to remove.
I have never had a virus, I use Malwarebytes (PRO), and Microsoft Security Essentials, as long as you have legitimate Windows then MSE is free. If it says something is a virus, it is. There are very rarely any false-positives.
Don't use Avast, ever. It's a memory whore. It flags anything as a virus and makes you s**t yourself.
Correction. AVG does allow you to temporary disable it if need to so idk what your gibbering about lol here is da proof ![[Image: 2cr9ied.jpg]](http://i40.tinypic.com/2cr9ied.jpg)
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