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Old 05-17-2011, 11:29 PM  
garce
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McAfee + Norton = Fail.

I've used MS Security Essentials, I used AVG for years. Most recently, I've used Avast and Kaspersky.

The best results I've gotten are from Panda Cloud Anti-Virus. It doesn't slow down my machine, and false-positives are almost non-existant.

With Avast - which I used for about a year - I had it test a "trainer" program for a game I play - a trainer which is a known false positive. Avast insisted on deleting every .txt, .doc. .htm, and .html on my computer.

I despise programs which insist on putting massive buttons inh my sidebar (Kaspersky, Avast), and programs that have a real hard time with false positives (MS-SE, Avast, AVG). As well, programs like AVG, Norton, and McAfee (Norton & McAfee were fine AV's about ten years ago) take WAY too many resources.

Buy Kaspersky (in spite of the massive sidebar button...) or check out Panda.
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