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hari1

hari1

In the zone
I actually tried many antiviruses before settling on Norton in 2011. Kaspersky was good and McGee was not great. Kaspersky slowed my PC very much but Norton was much more lightweight on my PC and I just liked it very much. At the same time, I won a one year licence of NIS in a giveaway and from then I am still using NIS and my PC has not been infected since then. Also, I do not face any trouble of configuring any settings at all. The firewall does everything automatically with no annoying notifications. It is just set and forget. Why should I take the pain of running two separate programs when I have one program that does it all and performs very very well.:wink:
It has got excellent scores in pcmag and pcworld reviews.
 
harshilsharma63

harshilsharma63

DIY FTW!
hari1 said:
I actually tried many antiviruses before settling on Norton in 2011. Kaspersky was good and McGee was not great. Kaspersky slowed my PC very much but Norton was much more lightweight on my PC and I just liked it very much. At the same time, I won a one year licence of NIS in a giveaway and from then I am still using NIS and my PC has not been infected since then. Also, I do not face any trouble of configuring any settings at all. The firewall does everything automatically with no annoying notifications. It is just set and forget. Why should I take the pain of running two separate programs when I have one program that does it all and performs very very well.:wink:
It has got excellent scores in pcmag and pcworld reviews.
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:+1: This is exactly the same reason why I'm using NIS 2013. The only thing which troubles me is the large update size.
 
gameranand

gameranand

Living to Play
hari1 said:
I actually tried many antiviruses before settling on Norton in 2011. Kaspersky was good and McGee was not great. Kaspersky slowed my PC very much but Norton was much more lightweight on my PC and I just liked it very much. At the same time, I won a one year licence of NIS in a giveaway and from then I am still using NIS and my PC has not been infected since then. Also, I do not face any trouble of configuring any settings at all. The firewall does everything automatically with no annoying notifications. It is just set and forget. Why should I take the pain of running two separate programs when I have one program that does it all and performs very very well.:wink:
It has got excellent scores in pcmag and pcworld reviews.
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1. Norton is not free, so you it for free then good for you but I don't think that its worth my money and yes I have used it.
2. Avast is lighter for me than the Norton + Very small updates.
3. I like to see whats going in my PC and which file require what particular file for running so I prefer Comodo. You can also configure it so that it won't bother you with the notifications.
 
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Vignesh B

Youngling
gameranand said:
2. Avast is lighter for me than the Norton + Very small updates.
3. I like to see whats going in my PC and which file require what particular file for running so I prefer Comodo. You can also configure it so that it won't bother you with the notifications.
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In fact on my home PC "which my parents use", Norton 360 is installed whose license will expire this weekend.
So am planning to install avast+comodo+malwarebytes(manual scanning) in that PC. Is it good enough considering the use-case scenario? I mean mainly, it should be able to clean by itself, most of the infections it encounters.
Personally am using that combo in my PC, but never experienced an infection in the past few years. :p So don't know about avast's malware removal ability.
 
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gameranand

gameranand

Living to Play
Its not really necessary to use Malwarebytes all the time. I mean I use it like once in a month or so. Avast+Comodo is good enough for most of the task. Also configure Comodo so that it won't bother your parents much with its notifications. :)
 
ssdivisiongermany1933

ssdivisiongermany1933

Still in war with allies
rakesh_ic said:
i am putting on a BitDeffender IS 2013 tonight. Oh yes, i got the copy. waiting to go back home.
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My Lappy is having bit defender IS 2013 but its giving pain in ass , rebooting wifi over n over again ,No problems if I connect through LAN and when I uninstalled ,Not even for a single moment my wifi got disconnected , Now seems that I have wasted money on Bit defender IS 2013
 
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Vignesh B

Youngling
ssdivisiongermany1933 said:
My Lappy is having bit defender IS 2013 but its giving pain in ass , rebooting wifi over n over again ,No problems if I connect through LAN and when I uninstalled ,Not even for a single moment my wifi got disconnected , Now seems that I have wasted money on Bit defender IS 2013
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This is exactly what confuses me. Majority of the people I know say Bit defender is not good enough.
But most of the review sites rank bit defender as the best. :|
 
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hari1

hari1

In the zone
Vignesh B said:
This is exactly what confuses. Majority of the people I know say Bit defender is not good enough.
But most of the review sites rank bit defender as the best. :|
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Two months ago I was also attracted to Bitdefender and just installed the trial to check the features after uninstalling Norton, then BOOM! :hot::banghead::duh2: My PC did not even go to desktop after login and windows got corrupted. I had to reinstall windows again :facepalm:. I would advise everyone to stay away from Bitdefender.
 
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rakesh_ic

Cyborg Agent
hari1 said:
Two months ago I was also attracted to Bitdefender and just installed the trial to check the features after uninstalling Norton, then BOOM! :hot::banghead::duh2: My PC did not even go to desktop after login and windows got corrupted. I had to reinstall windows again :facepalm:. I would advise everyone to stay away from Bitdefender.
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My initial impression on bit defender is good. Though it took some time installing, the journey after that was so pleasing..

It has been catching some virus in cookies lately which my windows defender (in Win8) never bothered about. It is light on the resources.

But my only question is, how do i auto delete or quarantine all the threats in one go instead of deleting each one manually?
 
SaiyanGoku

SaiyanGoku

kamehameha!!
I've been using Avast (free) since 2 years and had no problem at all. My dad bought a Dell Inspiron 15r for himself last year, it came with McAfee 15 months license (which kept using 40% CPU) and other Dell bloatwares. Did a clean reinstall of Windows 7 and installed Avast in the lappy too. Will never buy the configs with useless AVs which OEM's use.
 
topgear

topgear

Super Moderator
Staff member
Just installed Spybot Search and Destroy and whenever I try to update the updater lists all files that needs to be updated but it is not downloading any update files .. here's the log :

SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:25] [+] Background Updating Service got started...
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:25] 0.0.0.0 Successfully started listening on port 21321.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:25] Includes\Adware.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:25] Includes\AdwareC.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:25] Includes\Domains.sbs (version 20121106) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:25] Includes\GoodBankScripts.sbs (version 20061102) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:25] Includes\KeyloggersC.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:26] Includes\Malware.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:26] Includes\MalwareC.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:27] Includes\PUPSC.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:27] Includes\Tracks.uti (version 20050217) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:27] Includes\Trojans.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:27] Includes\TrojansC.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:27] Includes\TrojansC-02.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:27] Includes\TrojansC-03.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:27] Includes\TrojansC-04.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:27] Includes\URL-Blacklist.sbs (version 20121102) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:27] Includes\X509White.sbs (version 20120928) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:48] Includes\Adware.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:48] Includes\AdwareC.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:48] Includes\Domains.sbs (version 20121106) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:48] Includes\GoodBankScripts.sbs (version 20061102) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:48] Includes\KeyloggersC.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:49] Includes\Malware.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:49] Includes\MalwareC.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:49] Includes\PUPSC.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:49] Includes\Tracks.uti (version 20050217) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:49] Includes\Trojans.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:49] Includes\TrojansC.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:49] Includes\TrojansC-02.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:49] Includes\TrojansC-03.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:49] Includes\TrojansC-04.sbi (version 20121114) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:50] Includes\URL-Blacklist.sbs (version 20121102) needs to be updated.
SDUpdate.exe [2013-03-19 03:35:50] Includes\X509White.sbs (version 20120928) needs to be updated.
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meetdilip

meetdilip

Computer Addict
Why not try a reinstall ? Been quite some time I tried Spybot Search and Destory. It was very famed once, tried in those days. How is it now ?
 
topgear

topgear

Super Moderator
Staff member
fixed the issue ... it was because of the SDupdatye service was not starting properly but after sometime it stared up properly and update the necessary componenets though have to run this for 3 times but the most funny part is the log file is not showing any such things ... SD needs to improve it's win 8 compatibility.

Now facing one more issue with KS Virus Removal Tool .. the damn thing is throwing up client Registry Error and asking me to reboot into safe mode. It would have been better if it can be used without rebooting windows .. I'm using win 8 x64 version.
 
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