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[Aemilius Paulus]

Firefox + AVG free, never had problems.

~Fluvius

Yah, I use firefox and avg, and ive NEVER had a virus.

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If I had a pence every time someone said that... I have heard that comment millions of times by now. Same friggin' wording too. YOU DO NOT SEE THE VIRUS BECAUSE AVG/AVAST DOES NOT DETECT IT!!! Use your logic. The better the malware is, the more difficult to detect it. AVG and Avast do horrifically in virus competitions with other paid anti-malware programs. They detect less than 10% of the crap thrown at them. Just go online and look at reviews. Do not be an ostrich. Do not pretend something is not there when it is.

I used to use McAfee, pretty decent actually, as it detected infections that AVG/Avast! did not. However, it did not detect some stuff that Kaspersky did. Once I switched from McAfee to kaspersky, it found two worms and a trojan. And you guys think you are safe with the crappy AVG/Avast!

Now, of course, some of you lads may not have any malware. But if you happen to use porn, torrent, or warez sites, then beware. Even without using any of those, you can still get your share of crap. Personally, my experience with malware began four years ago, with SpySheriff. Ever since then, malware has been one of my top interests in computers.



EDIT: If you are too poor/cheap for paid anti-virus programs, and too whatever-it-is to know how to get those paid programs some other ways, then use Spybot Search&Destroy. Avast, AVG, Windows Defender, and Ad-Aware were all the ones I have used before switching to paid stuff. However, out of all that, Spybot S&D was the only thing that ever detected anything. AVG and Avast! NEVER detected ANYTHING. Yet every two weeks I would scan and find at least 5 things with Spybot S&D. Usually minor, pretty harmless adware and spyware such as StatCounter, but sometimes I had more serious infections as well. Spybot took care of all of them, while the other programs never had a clue.