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Posted - April 19 : 8:51p
I had AVG free, just upgraded to AVG 8.5 for $80 for two years. It has everything, firewall, id protection, a whole bunch of shit. While I had AVG free, I also installed spybot search and destroy. Do i still need to run spybot with the new AVG or is that overkill? I wouldn't have bought the AVG, but I have had a credit card and energy company account compromised in the last month. I figure $0.11 cents per day is pretty reasonable for peace of mind.
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- April 19 : 9:31p
It wouldn't hurt to have both. I regularly run Ad-Aware as well as Spybot. Both of them find stuff the other misses. I'd assume that AVG is no different.
I've been using AVG for years now - works like a charm!
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- April 20 : 5:47a
3/4 of the battle is just your actions online. If you're not doing stupid shit on porn sites, the risks are reduced greatly.
It doesn't hurt to have/use both, so you might as well.
Just one word of caution though, the "ID Protection" thing wouldn't likely have done shit regarding your credit card getting compromised. Credit card loses generally come from vendors that store card numbers in an unencrypted database getting hacked and having the data stolen. Nothing you can run on your PC is going to protect you from WalMart's lack of security.
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- April 20 : 1:27p
I had Symantec, then dropped it for AVG free at the advice from people here and FTW. I like it better than Symantec, it was WAY more user friendly, didn't have issues blocking stuff I wanted to look at etc. There is a free version, I just got the works for $80 for 2 years.
anti virus overkill - I think
Posted - April 19 : 8:51p
