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Posted by jim on January 28, 2008, 12:58 am
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options NOD32 Antivirus is great if you stick with version 2.7.
DO NOT USE VERSION 3.0 AND DEFINITELY STAY AWAY FROM ESET SECURITY SUITE.
They fvked it up, but say they are working to fix it.
jim
> Can some people with experience here advise me as to what security
> suite software (antivirus, firewall, antispam) to get for MS Windows
> XP? (free or commercial, but I am suspicious generally of free
> software for MS-Windows that often has viruses and annoying popup
> malware associated with it)
>
> To be honest, I have been using Ubuntu Linux for quite some time, on
> dual boot systems (WinXP and Linux). I find myself increasingly in
> need of only MS-Windows for the software I need to run (Sony Vegas,
> Sony ACID Pro, Movie Magic screenwriting software, etc) and may be
> just foregoing linux or perhaps taking it off my systems entirely.
> Thus my concern for protecting myself from viruses, trojans, etc.
> Today I downloaded and am running a trial version of Kaspersky
> internet security, just to have something at least for 30 days. But I
> am open to any security suite, as long as it does not slow down or jam
> up MS-Windows too much.
> ~Randall
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