Don’t understand this - why is the computer off? I have kept my computer running 24/7 except for necessary reboots for the past 4 years or so and it’s fine. The power consumption is minimal. Just leave it on and run the scans in the wee hours of the morning.
The Kaspersky Internet Security product includes a firewall. The Kaspersky Anti-Virus product does not.
AVG 8 gets on my nerves, and yes, as others mentioned, dont bother with the daily scan. AVG will scan any file read from or written to your hard drive anyway.
I switched to the free version of Avira and am happy with it, with the exception of a daily pop-up window asking you to buy the full version. There’s a way to turn it off, but I haven’t bothered, it’s free so I can view their ad.
…quite partial to NOD32: don’t even know its there most of the time…
I gave up on all of them because they bog things down. I have a firewall and the browser now warns about suspicious sites. Also, since I have on online Yahoo email with spam filters, I think I’m safe enough.
This is what I came in to say. If you’re not careful you’ll install that stupid yahoo search toolbar that comes with it . Simply because of that I’m looking for another good free antivirus solution.
Mac OS X seems to be the best anti-virus software out there.
Stick with AVG. It beats the hell out of McAfee.
:rolleyes: It has almost no protection other than the fact that the # of users are so low few scamsters or jokers target it.