View Poll Results: Which Windows AV product do you use AT HOME, and why?

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  • I don't use AV - I don't need it

    6 7.14%
  • Free - AntiVir

    2 2.38%
  • Free - Avast!

    7 8.33%
  • Free - AVG 6

    20 23.81%
  • Free - AVG 7 Beta

    17 20.24%
  • Norton

    14 16.67%
  • Norman

    0 0%
  • PC-Cillin

    5 5.95%
  • Other FREE AV (please specify)

    0 0%
  • Other NON-FREE AV (please specify)

    13 15.48%
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    Still using PC Cillin 2002 lol.no problems with viruses nor firewall cant complain all configged nicely, updates quick too and if a virus is found the ####er gets nuked came free with my a7n8x-e deluxe
    hmmm thinkin of using SP2 but i dunno as erm might shaft pc....

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    i now use AVG7, not AVG6 as i polled

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    Norton for me although It'll be AVG or something when my update service runs out.

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    • 0iD's system
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      • Leave my mother out of it!
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      • If I knew what it meant?
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      • Wah?
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      • Cupboards and drawers
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    I got rid of AVG at work owing to it's inability to get rid of a number of viri some numpties seem to get collared with. Replaced it with Kaspersky on the offending workstations & have had no problems since. At home i'm still using AVG as I paid for it & it seems to work for me.
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      • Asus Z87M-PLUS
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      • Intel i5-4670K
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      • 32 GiB
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      • 20 TiB
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      • PowerColor Radeon RX 6700 Fighter 10GB OC
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      • 750
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    Quote Originally Posted by schrickvr6
    I found using sygate as well as a router my pc was actually less secure, on it's own it worked fine but together not so good.
    I find that hard to believe pal.

    With just the router fw and sygate off the net can not see me has such but the local lan can, with both on i disapear from the local lan too yet i can still use services on both the lan and net.

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