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gtg93

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What antivirus do you use on your home PC?  

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  1. 1. What antivirus do you use on your home PC?


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gtg93

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So as per the title, I'm interested to know what antivirus everyone are currently using on their home PCs?

 

I'm a long time user of Avast, but have found it's causing my system to be quite slow to boot as of late, which is a shame as it's always been really good at keeping anything nasty at bay without hogging any system resources.

 

So I'm looking at changing but never been a fan of anything else... Recommendations?

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gtg93

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ESET, should be an option really as I believe it's a popular choice

 

Had I known that was a thing, I'd have added it - however I've never even heard of it until now :rolleyes: I'll add it to the list if I can figure out how:p

RichCowell

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I've always used Norton AV then IS... Never had any problems with Viruses etc... I use it on my home PC, tablet andwork PC (love Sophos for the network generally, but prefer to have more local control on my PC)
6Foot2

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Oh, derp... I should've read that slower. At home, Avast on my PC and Sophos on my Mac.

 

I made the same mistake. :o Avast on all of the home PCs.

gshaw

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I made the same mistake. :o Avast on all of the home PCs.

 

Me too :p Avast at home but may move that to ESET as the popups drive me mad

Danp

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ESET, have done for years. I even pay for a copy to have on my work machine as I dont trust SEP. Plus, I dont think it's safe to have the same AV school wide, always a good idea to have a couple of different ones.
gtg93

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Windows Defender isn't on the list.

Win10 Defender on my home pc

 

I forgot that it was Defender again in Win10 - I was thinking it was still MSE.

 

I've gone for Sophos now, and uninstalled Avast... Didn't realise how much Avast was slowing my system down! Not sure about using Sophos, not a huge fan of it at work, but we'll see... Something inside me didn't want to Trust Defender :p

 

 

Norton internet security, norton safeweb, norton tune up, norton services.

 

No probs on my celeron, 2gb ram

You brave soul ;)

abillybob

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Sophos, since I found out they did a free home PC version from this thread: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/general-chat/165855-sophos-free-home-android.html

 

I really like the idea of Sophos AntiVirus although for some reason even though I've added exceptions it dosen't seem to act on the exceptions so for example I've blocked C:\Program Files\ but it still scans that folder, I've checked the client side and it's for the exceptions...? Have any idea as of why this is happening?

 

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gtg93

gtg93

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I really like the idea of Sophos AntiVirus although for some reason even though I've added exceptions it dosen't seem to act on the exceptions so for example I've blocked C:\Program Files\ but it still scans that folder, I've checked the client side and it's for the exceptions...? Have any idea as of why this is happening?

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]36905[/ATTACH]

 

Out of curiosity, why would you not want Program Files to be scanned?

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