which anti virus  has been acclaimed the best??? plz tell me!!! also temme how can i dwnld it or its details!!
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mcaffee's good but norton is best!
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Here you have some good and free antivirus programs:\nhttp://askcomputerexpert.ws43.com/download/\nI like Avast
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Smart question. It is tricky business indeed.\nWell, I recomend:\n- Kaspersky AntiVirus Personal Pro (for antiviral purposes)\n- ZoneAlarm Pro (a truly powerfull firewall, trust me!)\n- Ad-Aware Pro (besides the excellent spyware detection rate is has an useful antispyware shield)\n- Mozilla Firefox (as main browser - it is the safest)\nIf all of this seems too complicated, you might want to try the Kaspersky Security Suite. Anyway I do NOT recommend neither Norton nor Trend Micro. McAfee maybe, or BitDefender Internet Security 2006. This is all. Have fun searching for these on Google.\nI mention that I have tested these all...
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AVG is JUNK. I recommend active virus shield. It is the best one and it is FREE.
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Here you have some good and free antivirus programs. Get one!\nhttp://askcomputerexpert.ws43.com/download/
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Many excellent Anti Virus programs are downloadable for FREE from the sites in the "sources". For example:\n-AVG anti virus\n-Avast! anti virus\n-Mcafee anti virus ( my personal best)\n\nThose are the best of the best. Also, if you want, download some good anti spyware programs for FREE such as:\n-Mcafee anti spyware\n-Etrust pest patrol\n-Spy Sweeper\n-Microsoft Anti Spyware or Windows Defender\n\n\nsome of the programs need serial number, which you can get from www.theserials.com\n\nalso, even if download.com says that Mcafee anti spyware is a trial, that's not true. download it, it's free.\ngood luck
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If you go to the following website it can help you decide on what virus scanner is the best, they test verious virus scanners to find out which ones are the most effective from both the On-demand scans and the Retrospective/ProActive Tests.\n\nwww.av-comparatives.org
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Avast is the best currently.\nYou can get it here:\nhttp://www.avast.com/\n\n(Avast (Home edition(free)) is the only anti virus which on my PC has tracked every single virus. I tried norton (many times it failed especially when the virus was on a pendrive(usb v1.1 @ 124 kb/s) (it usually ended up locking my system despite its high system specs)  ,macafee (Slowed the startup and boot up times), avg (took too long to startup and at times failed to update unless the system was restarted )\nEdit : Avast also support Vista and soon will support x64)
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The best anti-virus is *common sense.*\n\nNot even Norton can protect you:\nhttp://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&productID=219
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Many people think Symantec Norton AntiVirus is best but I hate it (I have many problems with that software).\n\nI'm using BitDefender 9 and it's good.\n\nHave you ever heard : "True Prevent".
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Hi there,\n\nI will backup the answerer who recommended Prevx1.  This is a relatively new program that is already proving to detect, protect and remove more malware than all leading security solutions combined.\n\nAvoid AVG at all costs - it really is awful, now offering one of the lowest protection scores of all security programs, with newer viruses waltzing straight through their defences.  It's free for a reason, and that's because it's protection is lacking.  I recently installed Prevx1 on a friends computer who already had AVG - and Prevx1 went on to remove over 30 viruses AVG had completely missed.  Quite shocking really and I wish people would stop recommending it...\n\nIf you are going to ignore this advice and go for a more popular security program - I'll give you some info on the latest protection scores.  Kapersky is now quite far in the lead, ahead of Norton and Mcafee who are both pretty close together.  However, as already stated - their protection scores are currently dwarfed by those offered by Prevx1.\n\nYou can read more about Prevx1 and/or download a Free Trial of their program which will automatically scan and remove all threats from your computer free of charge here:\n\nhttp://www.prevx.com\n\nGood Luck
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avg seems to be poplual free program but its protection and removal isnt the best.\nin fact it doesnt remove some and its detection is lacking.\ngood perhaps if your carefull on what and where you go online.\nbut the best is norton or mcafee.\nthey may have there drawbacks but i would rather know i'm protected than to be sorry later
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Hi there,\n\nInstead of all these "Mine is better than yours" answers that go on around here, I'll instead answer with the facts.\n\nQuite simply - Yes, Norton IS much better than AVG and Avast plus any other free utilities.\n\nLooking at current protection ratings, AVG scores a lowly 90% protection against all known viruses, whilst Avast comes in at 92%. This means they are letting through one in every ten viruses - pretty shocking.\n\nNorton on the other hand is protecting against something like 98.3% of all known viruses - a much better score.  However as people have mentioned, Norton can be known for being a very heavy program which can tend to slow down certain machines. However, if you are not showing any of these slowdown symptoms then I wouldn't worry too much.\n\nI honestly wouldn't waste your time with programs such as Spybot and Adaware.  These used to be great programs a couple of years ago but have now been overtaken and left behind by other programs with next generation approaches.\n\nOne scary fact is if you have AVG, Spybot and Adaware installed and up-to-date, then you are only protected from 60% of all known malware (viruses, spyware, adware, trojans, etc).\n\nIf you would be interested in other Security products that are better than Norton, you should try either Prevx1, Kaspersky or F-Secure who all score over a 99% protection rating.
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avg antivirus has the best code you can ever see in a scanner, it's silent, it doesn't consume much cpu and memory, it doesn't slow down your work and it is simply optimized.\n\nfor any antivirus, since you'll keep it open and running all the time, this is one of the most important features.\n\navg is better than norton, f-prot, mcafee, kapersky or panda... it's simply great.
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My favorite free antivirus program is the award-winning Avast! Home Edition.\nIt can be found here, http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html\nHere are a few of its awards, http://www.avast.com/eng/awards.html\n\nFor a firewall, I like ZoneAlarm http://www.zonelabs.com/store/content/company/products/znalm/freeDownload.jsp
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Among the paid ones, I like Kaspersky and BitDefender. Among the free ones, AVG, Avast, AOL Active Virus Shield, all are good. My advice is that, whatever be your anti-virus, always keep it updated and scan your computer once evry week. Also, never keep two or more anti-viruses on a system bcuz they will fight each other.
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Get either Avast! (http://www.avast.com/)  or AVG anti virus (http://www.grisoft.com/doc/1). both work pretty good. and they are both free.