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30 October, 2006 at 10:09 pm #5464
My internet security is running out in a few days. Ive got Norton and paid about 40 quid for the year. Still picked up one virus in that time, but they provided good (ish) instructions for removing it.
Should I go with them for another year or can anybody recommend another provider maybe cheaper or better?
30 October, 2006 at 10:12 pm #246985You pay? :shock:
30 October, 2006 at 10:13 pm #246986You dont? :roll:
Tell me then lol!!!
30 October, 2006 at 11:48 pm #24698730 October, 2006 at 11:58 pm #246988Ya. Those free ones quoted are just as good as the ones you pay for.
All you’re getting for paying the cash is bell’s and whistle’s.31 October, 2006 at 7:04 pm #246989*serious question number 2*
Ok its not my comp so i dont really care…. but how do you know that these so called *free* virus applications work…..and can they be trusted….
Just have to ask in a dumbar/se kind of way!
31 October, 2006 at 8:02 pm #246990Get McAfee bought its the best & is only bout £30.00 too . just install it & it upgrades its self all the time at no extra cost & lasts forever .
Never had any problems with it & have had it on for at least three years now .
31 October, 2006 at 9:18 pm #246991@rainbowbrite wrote:
*serious question number 2*
Ok its not my comp so i dont really care…. but how do you know that these so called *free* virus applications work…..and can they be trusted….
Just have to ask in a dumbar/se kind of way!
i use avast antivirus which is free, it gives you
internet mail security and instant messaging security
aswell as a standard shield a web shield a network shield
and a peer 2 peer shield, a few files i downloaded in limewire
had virus’s but the peer 2 peer protection stopped and killed them
before they could get in (alot of paid for virus protection software
don’t have peer 2 peer protection in which they let the virus download
and install before they find it – which can be dangerous depending on
what the virus is). When i installed avast it found trojan’s which McAfee did’nt!.
So yep….they work.i don’t use those bullshit antispyware program’s either,
they never find every bit of spyware or addware because that’s what they
search for, there’s alway’s atleast one that’s hiding away somewhere.
i use hijackthis….what makes it different from those bullshit program’s
is…..it does’nt search for anything, it open’s up every process that’s running
on your system, all you do is tick and delete, there’s no search time either
so you can use it from start to finish in uder 60 sec’s.
Ya know when you’ve had your computer for a while and over time
you’ve been installing programs, well….you end up with all these programs
in your taskbar down near the clock, all you can do is right click and close them
but they alway’s re-appear when you restart…..well there taskbar process’s,
you can permanently delete them in hijackthis without affecting the program.
But you gotta use with caution because you can delete important windows system
files if you don’t know what your deleting.31 October, 2006 at 9:45 pm #246992@ice man wrote:
@rainbowbrite wrote:
*serious question number 2*
Ok its not my comp so i dont really care…. but how do you know that these so called *free* virus applications work…..and can they be trusted….
Just have to ask in a dumbar/se kind of way!
i use avast antivirus which is free, it gives you
internet mail security and instant messaging security
aswell as a standard shield a web shield a network shield
and a peer 2 peer shield, a few files i downloaded in limewire
had virus’s but the peer 2 peer protection stopped and killed them
before they could get in (alot of paid for virus protection software
don’t have peer 2 peer protection in which they let the virus download
and install before they find it – which can be dangerous depending on
what the virus is). When i installed avast it found trojan’s which McAfee did’nt!.
So yep….they work.i don’t use those bullshit antispyware program’s either,
they never find every bit of spyware or addware because that’s what they
search for, there’s alway’s atleast one that’s hiding away somewhere.
i use hijackthis….what makes it different from those bullshit program’s
is…..it does’nt search for anything, it open’s up every process that’s running
on your system, all you do is tick and delete, there’s no search time either
so you can use it from start to finish in uder 60 sec’s.
Ya know when you’ve had your computer for a while and over time
you’ve been installing programs, well….you end up with all these programs
in your taskbar down near the clock, all you can do is right click and close them
but they alway’s re-appear when you restart…..well there taskbar process’s,
you can permanently delete them in hijackthis without affecting the program.
But you gotta use with caution because you can delete important windows system
files if you don’t know what your deleting.ello darlin how you doin an hows jay??? hugsters xoxoxoxo
31 October, 2006 at 11:48 pm #246993hi cath xxx hun, i’m not too bad thanx hun, how r u ?
jay’s ok, i dunno wear she is though….she might be in bed -
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