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Why NOT to use a Keygen.

Just seen a great example of why not to use a Keygen to crack legit software.
I was called in to a friends PC to look at why it was running erratically and internet kept locking up.
He had downloaded a copy of Acronis True Image Home with a Keygen program, and that nice Keygen had loaded a sneaky Trojan that disabled Windows Update (to prevent the Malicious SW removal tool from downloading) and various other items then proceeded to use his own PC to distribute Spam within a bot network!
Got his fingers burnt and reloading all his PC will teach him not to do it again!

Warez have that special characteristic, they're fully loaded! ...which I personally find as being a positive thing!

It a risk that people are willing to take I guess.

its simple! why will somebody reverse engineer a software and crack it without any reason?

I prefer invite-only trackers becose of that..

warez rock

mariner_heart said:
its simple! why will somebody reverse engineer a software and crack it without any reason?
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They could do it for the thrill?

Somebody here heard something about antispyware and antivirus software?
LOL

If you use Warez just test it in a Virtual Machine -.-
Cracking -> Fight against the industry making everything complicated and expensive

scilor said:
Cracking -> Fight against the industry making everything complicated and expensive
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Which in-turn leads to more cracks

If you people don't like to spend money for software, why don't you use FREE software?
Example:
- Linux
- OpenOffice
- FoxIt Reader (PDF)
- ...
... there is very much free software outta there, and in many cases, free software is better than commercial one.
Just search!

agreed...Linux+Warez=no problems for me

rico002 said:
agreed...Linux+Warez=no problems for me
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haha, that wasnt the point but w/e works

zeezee said:
Happiness
is like a
butterfly,
if you stop chasing it,
it will come to you
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i like this .. going to have to try as i am always after it but never seem to get it ...

thesire said:
i like this .. going to have to try as i am always after it but never seem to get it ...
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Lol random and not relevant to the thread
Who doesn't use warez? I just use warez for movies and to try stuff out =/ If I like it, I buy it. Problems is in trials all the software is limited, I want to try full software, but stupid companies are retarded T.T
Kraize

you can trust your warez forum and your "warez friends" on the forum. but do you know where they got the Keygen from? perhaps a chineese forum? and where they got it from?
even if you trust your friends on the warez forum who knows where the software came from, it' not like the people on the forum intentionally put a virus in it

mikeeey said:
you can trust your warez forum and your "warez friends" on the forum. but do you know where they got the Keygen from? perhaps a chineese forum? and where they got it from?
even if you trust your friends on the warez forum who knows where the software came from, it' not like the people on the forum intentionally put a virus in it
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That is why you don't trust your "warez friends" and scan all software you download before using and don't scan with AVG haha

lol why not AVG? AVG detects warez quite well. On the warez forums i always see "AVG DETECTED VIRUS! PLZ HELP!!!!" lol.

Yeah but in my experience AVG detects every keygen as a virus/trojan lol. It doesn't care. Says trojan lol. I use CA AntiVirus.
Kraize

warez rule n ur friend must b a noob. every warez user knows that u have 2 have a good anti-virus\spyware\what everware...i have been using warez for a long time n i have never gotten infected kuz i scan everything b4 i extract it..if i had payed for everything i have d/l i would have spent hundreds n goten mad @ most of the software ive tried... 2 mention the keygen im using on my bit-defender it gaved me 10,000 days of use...yes 10,000 days...n this is the best anti-virus ive used... n as a warez user ive used tons...so most companys dont lost much with me kuz if i use the product n like it i recommend it 2 my friends..

Anti-Virus for WP7

Being certified by Microsoft and specializing in Internet security, I know that Windows is the most targeted operating system for viruses, trojans, malware etc. Surely there must be an anti-virus by now for WP7.
After doing a search in the Market Place I didnt find any. There were anti-virus applications for WM6x, Iphone, Android and even Symbian but what about WP7. My guess is it wont be long before we need some sort of anti-virus protection for our devices. Picture this, you see a nice application from an independent website which wets your whistle. You install it by Toms Xap installer and your phone goes off. You try to restart but it refuses. The boot screen comes up with a message saying you are a victim of a virus which has now rendered your phone into a very expensive paper weight. It is possible and installing Xap applications through Toms Xap installer makes us even more exposed to malicious applications. WP7 Market Place scans applications and games to make sure you are protected. I'm not trying to scare people here so please dont get me wrong but I am trying to open peoples eyes and urge you to be cautious when installing applications which are not from WP7 Market Place or Xda.
I thought I would create this threat for the Xda community to share their views on this.

Personally I wont bother, its up to the users. Its all documented on Google.
see here: http://www.techgazing.com/2010/01/11/do-i-need-an-anti-virus-for-my-phone/
Russ

I would have to say that is a very interesting read. Nothing in there were mentioned about WP7. All I am saying is to be careful. That article claims there are 420 mobile phone viruses and most targeted is Symbian. This is because Symbian have been out longer than Android, Iphone and WM. Symbian certainly bought out more phones over the years so this would explain why they were targeted.
The case where the anti-virus company actually had a virus and passed it on through updates was shocking. That should never have happened and was very negligent of the anti-virus company.
Although people may think it will never happen to them, for the occasional few it does. People take out mobile phone insurance but how any people claim insurance? Why pay money for insurance when you dont take measures to backup your data and protect your device?
The internet is full of traps and data collecting nasties and you never can be sure that what ever you are downloading is 100% safe. Dont you think better to be safe than sorry should be a moto well remembered?

What you are missing is the fact that WP7 apps run completely sandboxed - they cannot reach out of their own little world.
Sure, installing a homebrew app which includes native code may circumvent this but I'd say that's the risk you take when geeking around with your phone

I think an antivirus-software is a totally useless investion of money for now.
You say, windows is the most targetted OS for viruses. Yeah, for sure, because most of people use it.
But its another thing if you look onto the mobile operating systems. The users are spread in 3-4 groups there: WM, Android, iOS and maybe the Blackberry OS.
So the virus-programmers need to choose first, for which platform they are going to write some malicious code. They are never gonna hit that much users as they would hit with Windows for Desktop.
I never heard of any popular virus for any mobilephone including WM-phones.
Secondly, WP7 is a totally new OS. For now, the count of people using this OS is way lower than that of Android and iOS - Users.
So why should hackers choose WP7 especially now as their victim?
My opinion for my last 5 years of using mobile operating systems is: You dont need it.
You have the same ability for sideloading apps with android and iOS too for now and they are much longer on the market than the new WP7 and I never heard of any viruses.

Anti-virus software is a complete waste of money, i dont use it on any of my 3 windows computers or any phones...

mideel said:
I never heard of any popular virus for any mobilephone including WM-phones.
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Norton and Kaperski have both had anti-virus on Symbian and WM
scbrother said:
Anti-virus software is a complete waste of money, i dont use it on any of my 3 windows computers or any phones...
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OMG are you trying to commit online suicide lol

AndHD2 said:
Norton and Kaperski have both had anti-virus on Symbian and WM
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read my post again. I didnt mean anti-virus-software, I meant viruses!

mideel said:
read my post again. I didnt mean anti-virus-software, I meant viruses!
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I think I had a Homer Simpson moment then.....Duh lol

i do not think antivirus on Phone is necessary. it will rather slow down stuff.

There is only 1 (ONE) existing virus for WM 6.x. Funny enough it was created by Kaspersky in order to demonstrate that viruses are possible and ppl should install AV software
Viruses for WP7 are almost useless as apps are completely sandboxed. Same thing with iOS. Only Android offers enough freedom for malicious code and then again only if rooted.

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Being certified by Microsoft and specializing in Internet security, I know that Windows is the most targeted operating system for viruses, trojans, malware etc. Surely there must be an anti-virus by now for WP7.
After doing a search in the Market Place I didnt find any. There were anti-virus applications for WM6x, Iphone, Android and even Symbian but what about WP7. My guess is it wont be long before we need some sort of anti-virus protection for our devices. Picture this, you see a nice application from an independent website which wets your whistle. You install it by Toms Xap installer and your phone goes off. You try to restart but it refuses. The boot screen comes up with a message saying you are a victim of a virus which has now rendered your phone into a very expensive paper weight. It is possible and installing Xap applications through Toms Xap installer makes us even more exposed to malicious applications. WP7 Market Place scans applications and games to make sure you are protected. I'm not trying to scare people here so please dont get me wrong but I am trying to open peoples eyes and urge you to be cautious when installing applications which are not from WP7 Market Place or Xda.
I thought I would create this threat for the Xda community to share their views on this.
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Apparently the certificate and specialization doesn't help much when there is lack of reading. Sorry, you've started your post with that sentence and it only makes you look silly.
If you've read even ONE review of this OS you'd realize that it lacks multitasking! That saidb there is no possibility (yet) of an application (AV) running in the background to check files/processes. Besides this OS is so closed you can't even download unsupported files! Today I couldn't download a simple .rar archive - it said that WP7 doesn't support this filetype
As for sideloading applications it's not officially supported by MS so it's just one of the "risks" advanced users need to cope with as Microsoft is checking each application before posting it on the marketplace. Plus the applications written are all in managed code and we don't even have access to system functions. Even simple functions like reading the battery percentage are unsupported.
So there is technically an extremely low risk of viruses in this pretty much closed OS.

I can't imagine AV's impact on already poor battery performance on HD2 WM7.

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Apparently the certificate and specialization doesn't help much when there is lack of reading. Sorry, you've started your post with that sentence and it only makes you look silly.
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Agreed. And most of us are used to flashing a new ROM every week, which is all you'd really need to do to recover from a 'virus'. I'm struggling to see what the danger is, especially on WP7.

Poor battery performance?
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I can't imagine AV's impact on already poor battery performance on HD2 WM7.
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What exactly are you doing to cause poor battery performance with WP7 on your HD2? It is probably the best battery life I have had on my phone other than an energy rom.

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What exactly are you doing to cause poor battery performance with WP7 on your HD2? It is probably the best battery life I have had on my phone other than an energy rom.
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i think most ppl who say something about poor battery perfomance on wp7 hd2 never used push mail on their phones

whats more likely is that you get a virus on you PC that trashes your phone on flash.
ah the good old days when virus wiped BIOSs and totally ruined your day.
I think its highly unlikely anything could happn on the device its self for the reasons mentioned above, worst case you could hard reset, unlike PCs most stuff is backed up, hopefully everything soon (Myphone please MS!!) and it takes a few min to reinstall, doing the same on your PC would mean a day watching movies whilst you set it all back up again.

Obviously this is a pretty safe OS, but if they do get something like Lookout Security I'll get it, simply for peace of mind.

virus/worm problem
I landed here after a search for antivirus for wp7. i use a htc hd7 chevron unlocked and over the last two days i experienced unwanted outgoing email on my live.com account. i use live.com account on the phone and also on PC via live.com and also using outlook connector...
how can i check which is affected with a virus - pc scan using avg shows clean. the unwanted emails go out apparantly when my pc is off - so is the virus on my wp7 or actually on live.com?
according to this post, there couldnt be a virus on wp7 is it??
any help/thoughts will be much appreciated.
TIA

I think my HD2/WP7 has something dodgy monitoring my actions as after I registered my debit card with the Market & made the first 79p payment for the XDA app I get a dodgy email to my Live email claiming to be from my bank saying there has been unusual activity with a html attachment.
This is a fake, but they new my bank and Live email address and the fact that I made some unusual activity: as in the 79p app.
WP7 is open somewhere!

PC admin app

I haven't found anything yet to satisfy this requirement so I'm asking for re-inforcement here. My requirements are:
1) Install a client on my kids PC that will be password protected so that it can't be uninstalled and which will allow the following:
2) Allow administration tool both on PC and Android device to remotely view the state of the PC (ON/OFF) and what it currently does (specific website visited, application being used, etc.) as well as to remotely shutdown and view screenshot.
3) I want this to be accessible not only from LAN (like netsupport) but also from Internet via 3G.
So far, I haven't found anything to satisfy this requirement. If anyone knows of any tool to do this well, it's more that welcome to recommend.

Why not just setup a keylogger and have the logs sent directly to your phone's email, granted it won't give you the access you want but everything will be visible.

exyljr said:
Why not just setup a keylogger and have the logs sent directly to your phone's email, granted it won't give you the access you want but everything will be visible.
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Thanks.
I don'r need that kind of control. I only need to know if the PC is ON and be able to swtch it OFF remotely when I want and just know what my son is doing at that time. i.e. playing games, watching youtube videos, etc.
I have used similar tools but none of them can provide all the requirements in one tool.
I have used OpenDNS and Norton Family online to control his hours and allowed sites to visit but I can't do the rest. I believe there must be an application like that because what I ask is simple and there are more complex tools available already.

So TeamViewer is what you need.

alternatively you could stop playing stalin to your kids

dnlilas said:
So TeamViewer is what you need.
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nope, teamviewer is a remote desktop control application. Nothing similar to what I am looking for.
I'm looking something like netsupport but simpler.

frozenblade said:
alternatively you could stop playing stalin to your kids
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+1 had the same thought reading this thread.
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+1 had the same thought reading this thread.
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How old are you? do you have kids? I bet not otherwise you wouldn't think like that. When you do have kids you'll want to control the time they spent on the computer as well as the sites they visit and it's not a metter of playing Stalin or the diictator. It's a matter of manipulating their habbits and discipline.
However, that's another story and everyone can have their opinion so let's not discuss this here because it will be a non-ending story of social nature and other people here are not interested.

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How old are you? do you have kids? I bet not otherwise you wouldn't think like that. When you do have kids you'll want to control the time they spent on the computer as well as the sites they visit and it's not a metter of playing Stalin or the diictator. It's a matter of manipulating their habbits and discipline.
However, that's another story and everyone can have their opinion so let's not discuss this here because it will be a non-ending story of social nature and other people here are not interested.
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Sorry i didnt mean any offence, im sure your a great parent, it just comes across a tad OTT. (not that thats a bad thing) anyway back on topic, i think you may need a small laptop or netbook to fullfill your requirements, as i havent see an android application that can do what you want
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Hi andreasy. I have an 3 years old little girl and I know that one day I'll need a kind of control of this. I'm planning to have a small linux proxy on my home net to block sites by hour/user/blacklist etc... but, I'm a Net. Admin and it's a simple job (to me).
Maybe you are searching on wrong places. Or you want a not yet developed software.
I'll do a little research to see if i can find anything abou this.

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Sorry i didnt mean any offence, im sure your a great parent, it just comes across a tad OTT. (not that thats a bad thing) anyway back on topic, i think you may need a small laptop or netbook to fullfill your requirements, as i havent see an android application that can do what you want
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Don't worry my friend. I didn't take it as offense in the first place. Everybody can express their opinion and we just discuss here. Thanks.

vettorazzo said:
Hi andreasy. I have an 3 years old little girl and I know that one day I'll need a kind of control of this. I'm planning to have a small linux proxy on my home net to block sites by hour/user/blacklist etc... but, I'm a Net. Admin and it's a simple job (to me).
Maybe you are searching on wrong places. Or you want a not yet developed software.
I'll do a little research to see if i can find anything abou this.
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Well I am a systems engineer as well and I was also thinking the gateway thing, but then I decided that I don't want an extra device in my home for this. Anyway, I solved the parental (inapropriate content) issue with OpenDNS and Norton family (Try them, they are free) and I was also considering Child Control which I evaluated in the past and it's quite cheap to buy. Now my only issue is that my son abuses the time policy and finds ways to bypass Norton Family rules.
Anyway, I guess the truth is your second point. "not yet developed software."
Thanks anyway.
I'll live with some scripts I wrote then which I'll have to make better.

i guess this might help u http://softwareforme.com/?page_id=6

No More Dropbox for Me

http://jdsawyer.net/2011/07/02/put-it-in-the-cloud-are-you-nuts/
Well, I sure as hell am not using this app anymore on my phone to help push files to it. And I dunno if devs on XDA will want to continue putting their stuff onto here anymore to help ease distribution. I wouldn't.
Thoughts?

Thoughts? Some legally illiterate blogger misunderstands TOS and starts scaremongering to get publicity.
As one of the comments states there are more serious concerns about storing files on a cloud service, especially with groups like anonymous and lolz secz that would hack it just to show it can be done.

Cloud storage systems are often more secure than personal computers. They attempt seurity. Most of the PC's I've seen you just need the IP and your in. I have yet to find a completely secure system. (My security is just several layers of chroots)

tvall said:
Cloud storage systems are often more secure than personal computers.
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where u get the info from?

ryanjoehere said:
where u get the info from?
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Personal experience
Never had stolen or stole any data from cloud storage systems. But have had friends had tons of data right off their computers. Most people don't put ANY effort into security other than a login password.

tvall said:
Personal experience
Never had stolen or stole any data from cloud storage systems. But have had friends had tons of data right off their computers. Most people don't put ANY effort into security other than a login password.
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You're lucky then.
800,000 sidekick users might have reason to dissagree.

Dropbox is free (2gb) and works just about flawlessly.
Let the the lawyers figure this silly nonsense out, I'm not gonna stop using it. Now, if you upload copyrighted material to dropbox, and then post a public link to that material, that's on you.

I've never used it, but this news article will definititly make me think twice before signing up. Not to say i won't, possibly, someday, but i have no need for it right now, and this "scaremongering" as you put it worked. I'll just stick to uploading things to my google account for now.

http://gizmodo.com/5817885/dropboxs-new-tcs-pushes-users-into-a-panic-over-privacy-and-ownership
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BazookaAce said:
http://gizmodo.com/5817885/dropboxs-new-tcs-pushes-users-into-a-panic-over-privacy-and-ownership
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Thanks for that!
Now i am in formed of whats going on. lol

i am fairly sure that nothing is going to happen when you upload your music. Just don't link it online to share it with the world.

what a crock. Its a lowball way for companies to get peoples ideas and work without paying for them. I knew cloud storage was too good to be true for long.
Doesnt look like ill be using any of them for this. Oh wait I dont have to since I use website servers to host my own stuff.

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what a crock. Its a lowball way for companies to get peoples ideas and work without paying for them. I knew cloud storage was too good to be true for long.
Doesnt look like ill be using any of them for this. Oh wait I dont have to since I use website servers to host my own stuff.
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What is?
All it does is allow them to do what YOU want them to do with it, such as when you share drop box folders and their content with others, you're giving DB the right to share your data at your request.

TravisBean said:
Dropbox is free (2gb) and works just about flawlessly.
Let the the lawyers figure this silly nonsense out, I'm not gonna stop using it. Now, if you upload copyrighted material to dropbox, and then post a public link to that material, that's on you.
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Exactly, if you have files stored in dropbox, no one can use the file unless you copy a link and share it... i mean its not like 4shared where you upload something then can search the site for files like copyrighted material and what not... The only way someone can access your stuff if you share the folder or link with them....

Best current Virus Protection?

I recently got a new PC with Windows 8 and I am currently without any form of protection on it. In the far distant past I used Esets Nod32 but I have not kept up with anti-virus software in a long time and I don't know what would be the best way to go now, I would like to get something that offers good protection against Viruses, spyware, malware and all of that but I don't want to spend too much either. Not sure which would be best to get and I know the XDA community is one of the best on the Internet so I thought I would seek advice on it here because Google is useless for this kind of thing(you'll just find advertisements, opinions and 3 year old crappy posts hard to tell which to believe). Thanks for your help.
Edit: I'd also prefer something which dose not completely cripple my system.

Best virus protection is your brain and knowing how to protect yourself from the many lulz om the internet
I dont have any AV software on my windows for 3 years now, never had any issues
Also we haz a dedicated PC help thread
So i think this will be a ay-bee-four-el
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Sorry didn't realize there was a thread for this. But to what you said, everyone on the planet should have virus protection, in my opinion. It's an opinion shared by nearly every IT person and every Tech site. That you don't share it is fine, that's your business because that's your PC. But *using your brain* will not protect you from viruses and malware, even if you think it will. If you haven't been infected(and just because you haven't noticed does not mean you have not been) then you have simply been lucky. I won't be taking any such chances myself, but thank you for taking the time to respond anyway and I hope you have a nice day. If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them.

Avira for me its good. :good:

Landara said:
Sorry didn't realize there was a thread for this. But to what you said, everyone on the planet should have virus protection, in my opinion. It's an opinion shared by nearly every IT person and every Tech site. That you don't share it is fine, that's your business because that's your PC. But *using your brain* will not protect you from viruses and malware, even if you think it will. If you haven't been infected(and just because you haven't noticed does not mean you have not been) then you have simply been lucky. I won't be taking any such chances myself, but thank you for taking the time to respond anyway and I hope you have a nice day. If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them.
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If you're not downloading sketchy things or going to iffy websites. There's very little you're protecting yourself from. Your brain is the best antivirus.
But of course having a safeguard is better than not using one so I have avast.

Avast! is good for me,you can try it.
Sorry for my bad English
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No Norton fans in the house?

Avg. Norton always seemed bulky to me.
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TheSkinnyDrummer said:
Avg. Norton always seemed bulky to me.
-kcco-
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True, but I get it free with comcast, so, I use it. Does the job, so I'm good.

The most effective virus protection is Competency by Common Sense. The best part is it's totally @#*&ing free!

I use avast.

Kaspersky internet security 2013 , (just a hint, the codes from the older, cheaper versions of Kaspersky 2011,2010 ect all work with the most up to date version)
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Microsoft Security Essentials because it's very light on memory usage, and Malwarebytes free version for a weekly scan.

quickhealllllllllllllllll

Gogeta said:
quickhealllllllllllllllll
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Never heard of that one...

MistaBojangles said:
Never heard of that one...
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Especially with that spelling
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TheSkinnyDrummer said:
Especially with that spelling
-kcco-
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quickheal*

TheSkinnyDrummer said:
Especially with that spelling
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Found it:
http://www.quickheal.com/

Gogeta said:
quickheal*
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Thatta boy.
-kcco-

I wonder if I can get Norton free too, I also have Comcast.
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