What do you use as an ANTI-VIRUS program ?

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Re: What do you use as an ANTI-VIRUS program ?

#31 Post by fasteez » Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:08 pm

avira free, takes ~20MB* , easy on the cpu*, the ad popup can be easily blocked ( 3 clicks away )


* gut measurement , from a paranoid impatient nerd , worthy but far from exact

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Re: What do you use as an ANTI-VIRUS program ?

#32 Post by Puppy » Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:57 am

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Re: What do you use as an ANTI-VIRUS program ?

#33 Post by t140568 » Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:08 am

Spybot S&D and Avast if I'm in Windows - which isn't often. Otherwise, I use Clam in Ubuntu.
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Re: What do you use as an ANTI-VIRUS program ?

#34 Post by pit1337 » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:51 pm

Anti-virus on Linux... :roll:
(unless you are running server for Windows clients).
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Re: What do you use as an ANTI-VIRUS program ?

#35 Post by t140568 » Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:24 am

pit1337 wrote:Anti-virus on Linux... :roll:
(unless you are running server for Windows clients).
I get what you're saying, but if I can keep a virus from being passed along to one of my Windows friends, then I'd like to do that.
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