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[mamculuna]

Another scary thing is computer viruses and the alternated, computer protection programs (reminds me of the voter fraud/voter suppression thing--which is really worse?) Because I've come to truly hate Norton, but have to admit that it works, I'm looking for alternatives. Has anyone used Avast?

ETA: Many people like AVG Free. If you use that, are you happy with just the virus protection and without a firewall? I think I have firewalls from Dell, TimeWarner, Google, etc., but also have been relying on Norton.

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[domynoe.livejournal.com]

Nope, but I use AVG Free and love it.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'll look at that.

[ann1962]

I can recommend AVG too. I didn't renew my Norton a year or so ago. AVG finds more ickies than Norton ever did.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Do you use just the virus protection, not the other stuff?

[ann1962]

It is the free one, version 8.0 that has anti virus, anti spyware, email scanner, and resident shield. There is also a Linkscanner, but I disabled that because running it pings every website on Google searches with your IP, even ones I don't click. That is really bothersome to me.

I also check when I remember Ad-Aware and Spybot, but neither has found anything since I downloaded AVG. They used to find stuff when I only ran Norton.