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Well, i wanna "buy" some anti-virus, anti spyware etc software. im not sure what to get, ive heard norton, and mcafee are good, are there any other better ones?

nod32, but the new activation system makes it hard to "buy"

are we talking about illegal stuff here?

i have (bought) mcafee and it's working good for me. (user-friendly?)

Don't get norton! I say get Nod32.

Nod32 has to be the best paid software i've used in a while..
But free antivirus does the job just as well.

Norton sucks, however, Symantec Anti-Virus is pretty good to pay for. I haven't had any real problems with it on my XP machine (XP will be on my laptop by the time I force Vista out of it) since I can't stand Norton Internet Security.

I personally don't recommend all-in-one softwares that much, but eh.. I do use Ad-Aware (the free one works just fine) and Windows Defender (for the time being until I can find something better to manage) for spyware.

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Originally posted by roflmao456

i have (bought) mcafee and it's working good for me. (user-friendly?)

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I have got to say by far that McAfee is pretty sucky.  If you havent done your weekly scan, it shows "Attention", but it changes security status to good as soon as you Start a system scan (so, technically, you could scan one file and cancel and you'd suddenly be "Good").  It's also got REALLY SLOW definition response times, they used to be good but now they're slow.

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Originally posted by SikStyles
Don't get norton! I say get Nod32.

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Everyone picks NOD32 cause it had the highest detection rates for a while, but the truth is Norton and McAfee have now almost exact detection rates as NOD32.  Symantecs Award Winning Norton AntiVirus 2008 has recently also received the VB100 award.  It is also rated to be 64% FASTER than the competition, and 84% faster than Norton AntiVirus 2007.  It now has a little memory footprint compared to the days when everyone hated it for using a ton of memory, unfortunately everyone who bashes it usually hasnt tried the newer versions.  Norton products now come with a 60 day Money Back Guarantee, that is, if it isnt as fast as you'd like it to be, return it and get your money back.  I personally use Norton Internet Security 2008 and I love it, and their response times to new viruses are wonderful.  You can check out Norton AntiVirus 2008 here.  For the All-in-One Norton Internet Security 2008, click here.

TrendMicro was decent the last time i had an antivirus.

Kaspersky Internet Security is what I use. It's meant to be the best protection at the moment and I agree with that. I'd recommend it to you.

Reviews:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2162401,00.asp
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/index.cfm?reviewid=1008

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Originally posted by Bilbo
nod32, but the new activation system makes it hard to "buy"

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You just fail . I have 2 sites with up to date login informations

Infact set Nod32 to Update from http://nod32.nohack.cn/, If it allows updating from other places, use it!