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Anti-virus software

Discussion in 'South Oval' started by StoopTroup, Mar 24, 2009.


  1. Curly Bill

    Curly Bill I'm a shootist

    I started using AVG after a lot of you were going on about it. No complaints so far.
     
  2. Scott D

    Scott D SoonerFans.com Elite Member

    note that is now two happy kaspersky users in this thread.
     
  3. StoopTroup

    StoopTroup New Member

    $49.99 for one user computer for a year. Pretty competitive and if it doesn't use as much of your operating system...even better. AVG does slow mine down when it's scanning.
     
  4. IB4OU

    IB4OU New Member

    Free - go with AVG
    Pay - Kaspersky or Eset Nod32.
     
  5. Frozen Sooner

    Frozen Sooner Soon to be Memphibian

    Warning on AVG-it's a bitch and a half to uninstall it if you want to go with other software. AVG does have a tool that will take care of it, which they offer for free download from their site. Took me a couple of hours of yelling at my computer to finally get it figured out though.
     
  6. KC//CRIMSON

    KC//CRIMSON New Member

    I got tired of AVG wanting to update every single hour. Thing is, it kept wanting to update the same file over and over again. I finally said F it, and got Avast.

    No complaints so far.......
     
  7. Scott D

    Scott D SoonerFans.com Elite Member

    Actually the simple way to do that is to be registry literate. It leaves about 3 markers in the registry that block other AV's from installing. Once you go in there and take them out, it's easy peasy.
     
  8. Frozen Sooner

    Frozen Sooner Soon to be Memphibian

    Why thank you, Scott. I appreciate your advice on this issue. I haven't learned how to regedit on Vista as yet, couldn't find instructions with a websearch, and then when I downloaded Iolo's system tools to do it Iolo couldn't clean it off the registry.

    However, rather than going in and editing the registry, I took 10 seconds to download a program that cleaned up the issue in about 20 seconds. But I'm sure regedit is much simpler. Thanks.

    ;)
     
  9. Scott D

    Scott D SoonerFans.com Elite Member

    Heh, when I had to look up how to get rid of it's markers the first thing I came across was about the regedit. Plus I was talking to a techie when I was going through the process :)
     
  10. sooner_born_1960

    sooner_born_1960 SoonerFans.com Elite Member

    A magnetized needle and a very steady hand.
     
  11. Scott D

    Scott D SoonerFans.com Elite Member

    I was thinking a rosary, a priest, some holy water and the virgin mary.
     
  12. soonerboomer93

    soonerboomer93 Dirty bastard

    I'm suprised Iolo couldn't clean it, it normally does a good job on most stuff. Glad you got it going though.
     
  13. Frozen Sooner

    Frozen Sooner Soon to be Memphibian

    Heh. By the time I was done messing with Iolo, it was like 11:00 here. I figured calling you and telling you it didn't work at 2am wasn't cool.
     
  14. Scott D

    Scott D SoonerFans.com Elite Member

    I woulda woke his stay puft marshmallow man avatar having *** up. :D
     
  15. soonerboomer93

    soonerboomer93 Dirty bastard

    hey, i told him to also try the avg site

    I knew it did some ****ed up stuff trying to reinstall it, i just could remember what

    besides, Iolo does some decent **** to the system, so just running it once handy
     

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