Thanks. I would not use McAfee or Norton. I have been using Panda and I
like it except it sometimes crashes when I use Mozilla Thunderbird. I have
hear a lot of good things about AVG Professional and PC-Illin
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> > I am looking for a new anti-virus solution. Does anyone have any
opinion
> > about which anti-virus solution is the best?
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> There are a number of good ones. IMHO Kaspersky is the best (although its
> interface is rather geeky). Historically, Kaspersky has been especially
> strong in looking inside various packing schemes (UPX and many others) to
> find viruses that are camouflaged - this feature is very helpful for those
> who download warez, etc. from P2P networks, etc.
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> There is another anti-virus program that uses the Kaspersky engine in
> combination with another engine which should be very effective - but,
> sadly, the name escapes me at the moment.
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> I've also heard good things about some free ones such as AVG.
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> While Norton does work reasonably well I recommend you avoid it for (at
> least) three reasons: it is bloatware which will slow your system, it puts
> down roots very deep and is a ***** to uninstall completely, and there
have
> been reports of difficult-to-resolve conflicts with other software.
>
> Same for Macafee (but, to be fair, to a *much* smaller extent).
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> Regards,
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> PS I use Kaspersky Personal Pro
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