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Crazy Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 09:09 AM
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My spyware software seems to be finding a lot of spyware...
14 days before I'm supposed to renew my subscription which I have no plans to. Everything is all bundled up now with my Trend-Micro security suite and I've got the free Windows Defender so why pay another $30 a year for something that only finds cookies?
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curse of greyface Donating Member (594 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:28 AM
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1. Honestly most anti-virus software slows your computer down more than an actual virus would.
And don't even mention Norton in my household. Dem fighting words.
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Crazy Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 11:23 AM
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3. My Trend-Micro does act like a virus
It creates these massive log files that cause about 30% fragmentation of the hard disk every couple of days. There's no way to shut them off, low settings or to make them self delete in less than a week. Every two days you have to go into the directory and delete about 34gb worth of logs then defragment your hard drive for a half hour. It could be a Vista problem too.
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-10-08 10:30 AM
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2. get rid of it
and go get AVG free.
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