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virusscan+firewall

Author:  bugzpodder [ Fri Apr 16, 2004 3:37 pm ]
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I am on WinXP with mcafee virusscan+zone alarm... but i heard there are some compatibility issues and i am experiencing major performance issues (which may or may not due to these software)... but i have formatted my harddrive less than one week ago!!!

anyone have a better recommendation for virusscan+firewall?

Author:  Amailer [ Fri Apr 16, 2004 4:03 pm ]
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i used AVG virus scanner with zone alram firewall, nothing like that happned to me, except whent he virus scanner started it's scans at 1:00 AM every day ;D

Author:  jonos [ Fri Apr 16, 2004 9:07 pm ]
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Try using AVG, it's free and it works pretty good and there is no problem with ZoneAlarm and it (at least in my experiences).

I know there is a program on the net somewhere that will check your RAM to see that it is ok, but I forget the name of it. You might want to search for that. There is a link to that program from the website of "Shadow's Experimental Bittorrent Client" so just check there.

Author:  Dan [ Fri Apr 16, 2004 9:23 pm ]
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I love AVG and spybot. i used to use ZoneAlarm but it keeps messing with my msn so i got a differnt one. but i realy dont need one since i got 2 hardware firewalls.

Author:  zylum [ Fri Apr 16, 2004 10:22 pm ]
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whenever i experience slow downs on my computer, i check for spyware and that almost always clears things up... as for a VS proggy i also use AVG... try using ad-aware by lava soft for spyware... it catches stuff that avg doesnt

-zylum

Author:  Amailer [ Fri Apr 16, 2004 10:35 pm ]
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at the moment i use norton and zonealarm. it works perfect Very Happy

Author:  jonos [ Fri Apr 16, 2004 11:36 pm ]
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Norton never deleted the viruses that it found for some reason Confused so that's why I switched to AVG because a lot of people here said it was good.

Author:  Andy [ Sat Apr 17, 2004 12:41 pm ]
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norton 2004? are u sure?

Author:  PaddyLong [ Mon Apr 19, 2004 11:15 am ]
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norton anti virus 2003 and zone alarm pro 4.0 ... seems to work pretty good

Author:  the_short1 [ Fri Apr 23, 2004 3:51 pm ]
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AVG all the way.... and zonealarm works good.... yes it does FUk with my MSN sometimes.... but... thats why i turn if off.... ***i only have firewall running when i on some explicit site or stuff like dat....

meh...

i had norton but it takes WAY to much system resources... and its so SLOW cuz it scans EVERYTHING.... **not saying a good scan... but scanning everything,...

anways...
ad-aware works good... AVg... and zonelabs...
although... why i didn;t get the full version of zonealarm yet is beyond me... maybe i should go find the serail... Wink


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