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February 2nd, 2006, 05:50 PM
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And the best (free) antivirus and antispyware programs are...
(List what you think)
I suppose I have a question also: Why is antivirus software and antispyware software separated? It's all the same to me; I want it off. So why doesn't someone just combine the two?
Thanks everyone.
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February 2nd, 2006, 05:57 PM
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IMO avast! 4.6 for home users is definately the best free antivorus software out there...  as for anti-spyware I use MS Anti-Spyware Beta 1 and, even though it's made by M$, so far it works fine.... 
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February 2nd, 2006, 05:59 PM
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February 2nd, 2006, 05:59 PM
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Avast is the best AV IMO
And I like spybot S&D, but it doesn't find as much spyware as Ad-Aware... | 
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February 2nd, 2006, 06:00 PM
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Avast,AVG,spybot,and Adaware.
Actually this question belongs in the security section, but You will find those to be very common answers as well as a few more you will no doubt hear. http://www.techimo.com/forum/f80/index.html
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February 2nd, 2006, 06:01 PM
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I've heard that AVG uses minimal resources. In terms of resource consumption, how would you rate AVG, Avast!, and perhaps other software you prefer? | |
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February 2nd, 2006, 06:05 PM
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I have been using AVG for several years now. There are nearly daily updates and I have never been hit by a virus. Doesn't seem to be a resource-hog either. | |
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February 2nd, 2006, 06:05 PM
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Well I run AVG on a AMD 2700+ with over a gig of RAM .. So i ma not to concerned with resources atleast in terms of my Antivirus. As well I have not used Avast either so I can't comment.
I can say though, both Spybot and Adaware have monitoring software that can run in the background looking constantly for spyware, much like antivirus. I don't use anything like that, so it cuts down on my resource usage.
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February 2nd, 2006, 06:08 PM
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I'm running a gig of RAM too on my personal machine. The family pc has only 512 mb RAM but has no trouble with AVG  | |
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February 2nd, 2006, 06:13 PM
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AVG takes about 20mb RAM...its nothing. 512mb RAM and i play BF2 fine(lowest settings maybe, but still...). I prefer AVG, i did use avast a while ago, but i didn't compare it(wasn't into it back then).
Make sure you have a good fire-wall, IMO the best FREE firewall is ZoneAlarm. The pro version is amazing, but im not looking for the extra bits lol.
I use MS anti-spyware, SpyBot, Adaware and cool web-shredder for anti-spyware.
EDIT- 20mb RAM, not 4mb(thats low 4mb...lol). Looked at only 1 of 4 proccesses by AVG!
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