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I have Norton AV but did a check w/ TrendMicro's Housecall & it found 3 instances of 1 virus & 1 of another. (Crossed my fingers & deleted the whole thing, app. to no ill-effect.) (I have been visiting some dodgy sites lately.) It is a rather slow, laborious scan but worthwhile IMO. Others who do free online scans are RAV, Kaspersky,McAfee, Panda, CA, Avast, & AVG.

While on the subject, my free Norton subscription will run out fairly soon. My understanding is that the top free AVs are AVG, Avast, & Anti-Vir, which I have used in the past. Anyone have any opinions on which of these is best?? They seem to rated about the same; depending on the venue/forum, each comes out on top at diff places.

AVG seems to be very popular. I used it briefly between telling Norton to shove it after an upgrade bolloxed up my system and setling on Panda Titanium, seemed to be very good for what it was.

I also use TrendMicro's Housecall alongside Panda - never had anything nasty with this combination. I know Panda get's a bad press for being 'bloated' like Norton, but I am happy with it.

Norton is like a virus in itself... my daughter's PC came with Norton pre-loaded and could we get rid of the f**ker??? You think you have, but oh no, there it is still leaving bits of crap all over the place that then conflict with other programs.

I use AVG as my anti-virus software backed up with weekly checks using both TrendMicro and Panda. For my firewall I use Zone Alarm and Mailwasher for my email prior to downloading from my server to my hard drive.

I can't remember the last time i had a problem but it was in the dim and distant past when I knew no better and relied on Norton.

AVG for me. Never had any nasties since I started using it.

AVG for me too....

I update as soon as I turn on and normally there is at least one maybe two updates available a day.

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Can't go wrong with AVG pro, for spyware Xoft SE, Ad aware pro, and Cyberscrub privacy suite pro to erase history etc and shred things beyond recpvery, Norton is shit, just like Richard Norton, poor mans Chick Norris in 80's Kung fu films, maybe he made it? the cock

Yeap agree AVG is good
norton is crap and a pain thats putting it nicely