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Fitzy
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Virus protection

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What is the best virus protection? I have been using Avast, but all of the sudden I started getting a pop up asking me to buy it, and it stopped running. I think if I'm going to pay I might as well get whatever is best. I

I'd really like something that is unobtrusive. Avast started running a couple of times while I was gaming. I realize it was probably my fault, some setting I failed to set correctly, but it was still very annoying.

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I use AVG (the free edition), and really like it. I've only once had a problem that AVG couldn't fix. Luckily, symantec had a removal tool up for it (it was a very new virus) and that was that.
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Peacedog wrote:I use AVG (the free edition), and really like it. I've only once had a problem that AVG couldn't fix. Luckily, symantec had a removal tool up for it (it was a very new virus) and that was that.
Thanks, I'll take a look at that, free is good :)
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