what is the most power full anti-virus program?
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I'm not familiar with many anti-virus programs but I'll try to share I know :).\n\nNorton Anti-Virus Software has been somewhat helpful to me. It keeps relatively up-to-date with new viruses and Trojans and is very thorough when it comes to protecting your PC. One disadvantage is it's not a "one-time-pay deal" and you may need to purchase newer versions fairly regularly. This can become tedious for someone with a busy daily schedule.\n\nApart from Norton Anti-Virus, I'm currently using AVG Free Anti-Virus Software. I find it particularly helpful since it doesn't prompt you for updates and performs scanning and updates automatically. It doesn't distract your computer activities and only informs you of it's actions after they've been completed. AVG Free Anti-Virus software can be downloaded at:\nhttp://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/lng/us/tpl/v5\nSimply scroll down to the orange text and click the link directly under "AVG Free for Windows installation files". The file should begin downloading shortly after.\n\nIf you need more information on Anti-Virus Software, try this site:\nhttp://www.download.com/Antivirus/3150-2239-0.html\nThey provide ratings and reviews for various Anti-Virus programs.\n\nGood luck! Hope I was able to help :)
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Well... no free Anti-Virus is perfect...\n\nAvast is decent, and has alot of features but it's SLOW and detection isn't that great.\n\nAntiVir Classic offers Active Guard  but no email guard and it sometimes has false detections for trojans.\n\nAVG offers On-Demand scanning and Email but it doesn't open archives and can only select the files most likely to be infected.\n\nBitDefender is a very trusted Anti-virus and offers a free version, but it doesn't have active guard.\n\nClamWin is ok and opensourced.. but you have to set it to auto remove things, and it doesn't have active scanner unless you go to Sourceforge.net and download WinPooch to use with it.\n---\n\nPersonally I use AntiVir as my active guard and Bitdefender \n\nFree as my On-demand back up scanner...And Portableapps.com \n\nClamWin for my USB so I can take a AntiVirus with me as I go.
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Avg antivirus can be downloaded for free.\nhttp://free.grisoft.com
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My personal all-time favourite is AVG (http://free.grisoft.com/ ), but I've also tried other antivirus solution like Avast (http://www.avast.com/ ), and ClamWin (http://www.clamwin.com/ ). Both of them are decent free antivirus, I recommend them. Avast failed to get into my favourite because I don't really like the interface although it gives a decent results. While Clamwin failed to become my favourite merely because it doesn't have real time scanning, which is good for PC that is tight on resources (mostly because I've already too used to AVG though)\n\nNote: I have to tell you that you MUST NOT have more than one antivirus installed at the same time, if you want to try other AV product, you have to uninstall the current AV product.\n\nPS: For other answerer's information, he asks for an antivirus software and not firewall software (like the mentioned Sygate) or antispyware software (like the mentioned Spybot SD).
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i believe ur talking about these:\nAVG Free edition (antivirus)\nMcAfee Stinger (backup scanner)\nLavasoft Ad-Aware SE (antispyware)\nSpybot Search & Destroy(also antispyware)\nZoneAlarm (firewall)\ntheir all very good programs thy run great (even AVG free haha) and best of all theyre freeeeeeeeeeeee.\n(get em off download.com)\n;)
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The best anti-virus program is AVG by far, the free version or the bought version.\nSome good anti-spyware programs are Spyware Blaster or Spybot Search & Destroy.\nThese programs all are compatable with each other a will get rid of all of the viruses and spyware on your pc.
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There are many decent anti-virus programs available. Norton's is one of the best, as it's both thorough and economical and doesn't use up a lot of memory; however, the problem where memory is concerned is that the best programs require the most memory. I was using Nortons awhile back and still got a virus, so I spent about $300.00 on a very extensive program called Tech on Demand. Unfortunately, it requires a lot of memory to run because of the many functions of the program. The amount of memory is pretty much proportional to the amount of protection you're looking for.
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Ad-Aware SE Personal is definitely the best free antivirus out there.  Find it at http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/
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Kaspersky antivirus\nand\nwww.ewido.net/en/download  anti spy\n\nEnjoy
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According to PCWorld.com, BitDefender 9 is the best.  Norton is number 5 and it's a huge memory hog.  McAfee is #2, which can also be a memory hog.
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McAfee is the best. It automaticaly updates itself when ever the update is available on the internet. It means that ur always safe from all new viruses too.
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Yes, it was rated the best antivirus by PCWorld.com.  Read the link below.
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Hey pal,\n\nKspersky is the BEST!!! believe me with 99.8% of virus detection is the best.\nyou can check the website to select your product.\nwww.kaspersky.com\nthey have everything you need.\n\nCiao,
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Here you have some good and free antivirus programs:\nhttp://askcomputerexpert.ws43.com/download/\nGet one and also an anti-spyware program!
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nod32 is simplest and best and most powerful, but you have to pay for it.\n\nAVG is probably best if you don't want to pay anything. .\n\nit is excellent and basically very little trouble to use. . it's very low-maintenance\n\nAVG is free because they want to convince everyone that it's a great product, ESPECIALLY those people who work in IT departments and get it free at home. . so they can go to work and tell the boss how good it is. .\n\nby the way. . AdAware SE and Spybot Search and Destroy are not antivirus programs, but anti-spyware programs (they are very good, but they aren't enough. . you need a good (and constantly updated) antivirus, and you need to go to Microsoft's website to get the latest Windows updates so you'll be secure\n\nand you need a good firewall, too, like Zonealarm (free from http://www.zonelabs.com)\n\nIf you aren't going to put in a third party firewall, then at least make sure you have the Windows firewall on (that comes in XP as part of Service Pack 2). . \n\nStart > Control Panel > Windows Firewall, and make sure it's set to "On"\n\nby the way, any disk that came with the computer only has a free 60 day (or whatever period) trial that comes with it. . \n\nit isn't any good after that 60 days (not for antivirus, that is)
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you should get basically the same protection from either one. the best antivirus is Norton. if you run both on the same machine one will compermise the other. check online for reviews of the software and see what is being said about it from the users.
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Well norton antivirus 2006 or any version .. well as an expert my view is that .. it kills the processor by loading too much of its program... u can just switch on too.... AVG antivirus free edition 7.5 or professional edition if u can pay for it..... i use the professional edition & its quite fast ... protects the laptop 100 times better than Norton...