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yamahauler

Active member
Paul-We just bought a new laptop 2 wks ago and it came with a Norton 60 day trial. I was just on this site and noticed it had it flagged so I looked at it. Glad to see most others show nothing. I went to some other news sites that generally get a lot of traffic as well as others that don't to see if it would catch something there and nothing.

I think I am going to go with that AVG as well when the trial expires.
 
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tequilamonsta

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For what its worth, http://www.bitdefender.com/scanner/online/free.html has been pretty good to me when I've had issues.

Another good tool is http://www.virustotal.com/ - you can submit a file to upload and it will check it against a variety of scanner engines and report the results. Downside is, one file at a time, but Norton and Mcafee usually do report the infected file and location on your computer. Works for detecting false positives.

I run http://www.clamwin.com/ on all 8 of my pcs. Doesn't provide real time protection, but its very lightweight. It does however, scan email attachments upon opening/downloading. I also use it to scan the shared files on my linux server nightly, just to keep propagation to a minimum.
 
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caged_beagle

Member
Administrator said:
I am having my server hosts check things out, but I run AVG and have not come up with any issues.

My best advice is to get things like Norton and Symantic the heck off your machines! That is unless you want your machines to run like crap and end up with lots of false positives.

My machines all run much better now that I got rid of Norton. Love AVG though!

-John
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Mcafee will corrupt the speed of your computers too! We used to get it free due to our comcast account and I ran it on all 3 of our machines, until I had to uninstall due to a crash on my desktop. I switched to sophos and the free version of AVG and haven't looked back. I think it's good to run more than one piece of software for viruses and whatnot because you never know what one will pick-up that the other won't, and visa versa. Soon after that Mcafee came off the other two computers and they run the same thing now. My boss turned me onto Sophos and so far they are great. 24/7 support with all native english speakers, housed in the US. PERFECT for me.

BTW, sophos didn't pick up anything after a scan either.......
 
saber1

saber1

Active member
I agree get a Mac . You do not need virus software and after owning a mac for about 8 yrs now i have never had a problem.They seem to be more stable machines.
 
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caged_beagle

Member
saber1 said:
I agree get a Mac . You do not need virus software and after owning a mac for about 8 yrs now i have never had a problem.They seem to be more stable machines.
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The way I see it, or actually the way a longtime computer guru that I know put it to me a number of years ago is that the differnce is not the stability of a PC versus a MAC. It's the fact that MAC users are only (or used to be, I don't know now w/the MAC craze) about 10-15% of the overall users of computers. Which means why would anybody write a virus for users of an OS that claims only 10-15% of the computing public. Plus, say 20% of PC users "talk" about getting viruses and 20% of Mac users "talk" about getting a virus, what would the correlation in numbers be? By the above math about 250 of 1000 or 1/4 (it's in my head math, it should be close leave me alone). So the point is there are 3/4 more people to talk about there problems with their PC's than people with Mac's. Which means you hear more about the viral problems with Pc's, than Mac's. I don't know, but the theory when I heard it made sense.

What you guys say?????????????????
 
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lenny

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A scan was run on every file on my site last night and came up clean. So it looks like the Norton was bringing up false positives. I was told perhaps because this site still used frames. Not sure why that is, but just repeating what the experts told me!

Lenny, you crack me up. It's there. They do make the link to the free version a bit more difficult to see than the dozens of links to the pay version (gee, I wonder why!). Keep looking, it's there! Have patience. Keep in mind, free is not always easy!

-John
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I often crack myself up. I did finally find it and I didnt have any issues with my PC. I un-installed the program allready because it slows it down noticable. It's the price you pay for protection.
 
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kaneiswhite

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lolz norton sucks, i've used mcaffe <sucks> norton <sucks> and somethin else that i cant remember <sucks> and currently im using avg <good>
 
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