Author Topic: Countdown for nasty Windows virus (Read 3796 times)

sam · « **Reply #15 on:** February 01, 2006, 00:12 »

anyone else suspect that all this is just speculation by companies to make you bye their antivirus solutions before feb 3rd, or am i just being cynical?

DJ · « **Reply #16 on:** February 01, 2006, 15:48 »

Clive I use avast and haven't had any problems so far, the one I downloaded has a different link than the one posted previously.....

http://www.avast.com/eng/free_software.html

DJ

Clive · « **Reply #17 on:** February 01, 2006, 16:27 »

I downloaded it yesterday and I haven't had any problems. It's even compatible with Norton's which I haven't bothered to remove yet.

chorleydave · « **Reply #18 on:** February 01, 2006, 17:34 »

My sister put Norton on her 3.2Ghz, 1GB RAM machine and it was running slower than my old 466 Celeron that I use as a test machine. I have been round and uninstalled Norton and replaced it with Avast and she says it's never run as fast or as smoothly.

I'm very reluctant to get rid of AVG as, updating problems aside, I have never had any problems while using it. In fact (touch wood) I have never had a single virus in seven years of home computing. However, I am hearing some good things about Avast, including reports that it has found things that others have missed,

Hmm - A bit of a dilemma. :?

Clive · « **Reply #19 on:** February 01, 2006, 18:30 »

I've heard that Norton's 2006 grinds your machine to a halt too Dave and that's why I was so worried about installing it.