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Best AntiVirus Software
Neither interferes with K9 now.  Do not have more than one antivirus running at a time.
Free - Avast           download here
Paid - Kaspersky

Best Free Spyware
ublock                    download here for FireFox

Firewalls
Windows Firewall should be ON at all times unless your antivirus software comes with one.
If so, it will probably shut off Windows Firewall on its own.



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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #180 on: November 17, 2015, 12:52:40 AM »
Quote from: avromie7 on November 16, 2015, 06:56:06 PM
Webroot works just fine with other anti-viruses   8)
never tried it :)
(good to know)
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #181 on: November 17, 2015, 10:33:52 AM »
Quote from: avromie7 on November 16, 2015, 06:56:06 PM
Webroot works just fine with other anti-viruses   8)
Is it worth having installed along with avast?
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #182 on: November 17, 2015, 10:41:23 AM »
Quote from: etech0 on November 17, 2015, 10:33:52 AM
Is it worth having installed along with avast?
If you are willing to pay for it, because it works different than regular antivirus it finds viruses that regular anti-virus won't find
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #183 on: November 17, 2015, 10:41:55 AM »
Quote from: avromie7 on November 17, 2015, 10:41:23 AM
If you are willing to pay for it, because it works different than regular antivirus it finds viruses that regular anti-virus won't find
Interesting. Is it ever FAR?
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #184 on: November 17, 2015, 11:12:29 AM »
Quote from: etech0 on November 17, 2015, 10:41:55 AM
Interesting. Is it ever FAR?
Not AFAIK but I never checked
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #185 on: November 17, 2015, 11:13:58 AM »
You need to add a registry key if you don't want it to turn off your other antivirus in windows 8 and 10
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #186 on: December 02, 2015, 09:29:32 PM »
Total n00b to this; is internet security (McAfee) a totally different thing than antivirus or is it the same thing with a nicer name? (while installing Avast it is asking me to uninstall McAfee.
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #187 on: December 03, 2015, 01:48:18 PM »
get rid of mcafee anything and install avast. uncheck everything except for file shield
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #188 on: December 03, 2015, 02:12:31 PM »
Quote from: DanH on December 03, 2015, 01:48:18 PM
get rid of mcafee anything and install avast.
Did that.
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uncheck everything except for file shield
Uncheck where?
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #189 on: December 03, 2015, 02:13:37 PM »
Quote from: Joe4007 on December 03, 2015, 02:12:31 PM
Did that.Uncheck where?
too late :)
when installing avast, the first screen, hit customize, then make sure only file shield is checked.
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #190 on: December 03, 2015, 03:37:48 PM »
Quote from: DanH on December 03, 2015, 02:13:37 PM
too late :)
when installing avast, the first screen, hit customize, then make sure only file shield is checked.
Should I uninstall/reinstall?
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #191 on: December 03, 2015, 03:42:23 PM »
Quote from: Joe4007 on December 03, 2015, 03:37:48 PM
Should I uninstall/reinstall?
yeah :)
uninstall
run cleaner - http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avastclear.exe
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #192 on: December 04, 2015, 02:15:11 AM »
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #193 on: December 04, 2015, 04:47:32 AM »
Quote from: DanH on December 03, 2015, 03:42:23 PM
yeah :)
uninstall
run cleaner - http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avastclear.exe
then reinstall
Why cant he go to change programs?
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #194 on: December 05, 2015, 01:46:38 PM »
Quote from: Zevi16 on December 04, 2015, 04:47:32 AM
Why cant he go to change programs?
iirc ive come across times where that didnt work
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #195 on: December 05, 2015, 01:49:19 PM »
Quote from: DanH on December 05, 2015, 01:46:38 PM
iirc ive come across times where that didnt work
You taught me it in the computer trouble shoot thread
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #196 on: December 05, 2015, 02:10:38 PM »
Quote from: Zevi16 on December 05, 2015, 01:49:19 PM
You taught me it in the computer trouble shoot thread
very possibly
maybe it was before i came across the issue :)
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #197 on: December 07, 2015, 07:38:19 PM »
Quote from: DanH on December 03, 2015, 01:48:18 PM
get rid of mcafee anything and install avast. uncheck everything except for file shield
Just got McAfee as part of a rebate so i uninstalled my avg in order to install McAfee multi user, is there anything wrong with it that your saying to get rid of it?

Why is avast better?
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #198 on: December 07, 2015, 08:23:23 PM »
An anecdote, not for statistical purposes:
I got McAfee free, too.  I installed it earlier this week.  I had AVG on my computer.  McAfee didn't do an immediate scan.  I scheduled it for next week.  Within a day, the computer was vvvveeerrrrryyy sssssllllllllloooooowwwwwwww.  It got so bad we couldn't use it. I wanted to go into McAfee and adjust the settings or do an immediate scan, but the program wouldn't open. At all.  So I uninstalled it.  Going to the control panel and 'uninstalling' it didn't work.  So I googled it, and got a McAfee uninstall program.
I saw (and installed) a program called 'unchecky' that unchecks all the add on programs that they sneak into an installation. Then I uninstalled AVG.  And I downloaded and installed Avast. Unfortunately, I may have some Avast junk installed, too.  So I think I'll
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uninstall
run cleaner - http://files.avast.com/iavs9x/avastclear.exe
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Re: Best free Anti-Virus master thread
« Reply #199 on: December 07, 2015, 11:17:32 PM »
AVG recently started tracking user data
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