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14-10-2006, 08:55 PM
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anti virus
anti virus/ spy ware
can any body recommend a good one
thanks dan
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14-10-2006, 09:21 PM
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Traveling
Country: UK
Location: Alderholt
Occupation: Aerospace
Boat name: T/T D2S
Boat make: Midas 27' Cat, Argo 16 Cat. Avon Rib Thingy
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AVG Grisoft as a freebe anti virus
Spybot aint a bad freed anti spy ware & will prompt all registry changes if you set it up
http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html
http://www.grisoft.com/doc/products-...g/us/tpl/tpl01
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14-10-2006, 09:47 PM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
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Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
Cruising area: South Coast
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I use AVG, seems very good.
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14-10-2006, 09:54 PM
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On a roll
Country: England
Location: Plymouth
Occupation: Anything in metal
Interests: Bristol Rovers, Cider & Boats
Boat name: Aqua Thunder, Badboy
Boat make: Bernico F2, Phantom 21
Engines: Merc 280efi, Merc 260efi
Cruising area: Worldwide
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Location: Plymouth
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Hi Dan,
I use spybot S&D, and also some ad-aware thing both free downloads.
One other good bit of kit is called hijackthis. Not so much of a ad removal tool more program based. Allows you to see absoluletly everything that is running on your pc and teklls you what it is so you can delete all those crappy spyware progs.
None of the above are really anti virus but worth having anyway.
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14-10-2006, 09:55 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
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Quote:
Originally posted by Jon Fuller
I use AVG, seems very good.
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 Has improved a lot over the past couple of years and is not as "heavy" as Nortons or Mcafee....
Something else worth running regulary is CCleaner (Crap Cleaner) http://www.ccleaner.com/
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14-10-2006, 10:52 PM
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I've always found AV sw opinions are like arseholes - everyone's got one. I've not used AVG, but have used most others, and all are more than capable of doing the job.
The most important thing is keep the virus definitions up to date - most common grievance about a product is when a "customer" blames the software when they've not kept their virus definitions up to date.
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14-10-2006, 10:57 PM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
Occupation: none
Interests: none
Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
Cruising area: South Coast
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: South
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my AVG one, has a wee chat with 'head office' every day at8pm to update itself, then at 10pmit runs a full virus scan, again, daily. If you're using the pc when the scan starts, it's a bit annoying coz it slows everything up,as you'd expect. But you can stop it, or pause it till you're done, then let it carry on.
All seems to work pretty well, and is easy to use. Norton drove me fkkn mad, so I removed it and went to this one.
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14-10-2006, 11:03 PM
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I should take a look at AVG, will probably do so when my current subscription expires.
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14-10-2006, 11:15 PM
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member
Join Date: Apr 2004
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I've used panda-antivirus for past 4 years. Like norton was 'heavy' but has improved significantly does a complete internet security thing.....
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15-10-2006, 12:11 PM
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Registered User
Country: england
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thanks for all the info
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15-10-2006, 01:46 PM
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Registered User
Country: Job Centre
Location: In a box
Occupation: Chaos's gofer
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Engines: 2 x Promax 225
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Location: In a box
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Quote:
Originally posted by Jon Fuller
my AVG one, has a wee chat with 'head office' every day at8pm to update itself, then at 10pmit runs a full virus scan, again, daily. If you're using the pc when the scan starts, it's a bit annoying coz it slows everything up,as you'd expect. But you can stop it, or pause it till you're done, then let it carry on.
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You need to open "scheduler", and change it to 2 in the morning
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15-10-2006, 03:08 PM
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numbskull
Country: United Kingdom
Location: South
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Boat name: Leviathan
Boat make: Phantom 28
Cruising area: South Coast
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: South
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wouldn't do much scanning at 2am, I don't leave mine powered up like you do. It's fast asleep at 2am.
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15-10-2006, 08:26 PM
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Registered User
Country: England
Location: Kent
Occupation: Train Engineer
Interests: Refit/Re-engine Woody's P18 and helping with D2S.
Boat name: Fugazi II / D2S
Boat make: Phantom 18 / Planatec 41'
Engines: 1xMercury XR2 / 2x 8.1ltr Chevys
Cruising area: Kent/Hampshire/Dorset Coasts
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Kent
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Quote:
Originally posted by Jon Fuller
wouldn't do much scanning at 2am, I don't leave mine powered up like you do. It's fast asleep at 2am.
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Unless you're on here of course!!!!!!!
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