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Originally posted by: mechBgon
Laughingman12, no, antivirus is not bad for your hardware. If you need some good antivirus that's free for non-commercial use, use this one, except uncheck the box for the optional security toolbar during installation. 24 updates a day, very effective, and designed to yield CPU time to games and other intensive stuff.

From AOL? No way would i touch that thing, ever! Antivir has suited me just fine.

 
Originally posted by: homercles337
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Laughingman12, no, antivirus is not bad for your hardware. If you need some good antivirus that's free for non-commercial use, use this one, except uncheck the box for the optional security toolbar during installation. 24 updates a day, very effective, and designed to yield CPU time to games and other intensive stuff.

From AOL? No way would i touch that thing, ever! Antivir has suited me just fine.

Please do a simple search before making an assumption about AOL active virus shield. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: John
Originally posted by: homercles337
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Laughingman12, no, antivirus is not bad for your hardware. If you need some good antivirus that's free for non-commercial use, use this one, except uncheck the box for the optional security toolbar during installation. 24 updates a day, very effective, and designed to yield CPU time to games and other intensive stuff.

From AOL? No way would i touch that thing, ever! Antivir has suited me just fine.

Please do a simple search before making an assumption about AOL active virus shield. 🙂

Which one of those aol apps, processes, viruses, malware, etc that you have installed generated this reply?
 
Originally posted by: homercles337
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Laughingman12, no, antivirus is not bad for your hardware. If you need some good antivirus that's free for non-commercial use, use this one, except uncheck the box for the optional security toolbar during installation. 24 updates a day, very effective, and designed to yield CPU time to games and other intensive stuff.

From AOL? No way would i touch that thing, ever! Antivir has suited me just fine.

Amazingly, for once in their miserable lives, AOL didn't screw this one up. I can only assume that all the MBAs were too busy at the coke party to prevent the engineers from sneaking this one past. I can barely believe it myself; but it's true.
 
Originally posted by: homercles337
Originally posted by: John
Originally posted by: homercles337
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Laughingman12, no, antivirus is not bad for your hardware. If you need some good antivirus that's free for non-commercial use, use this one, except uncheck the box for the optional security toolbar during installation. 24 updates a day, very effective, and designed to yield CPU time to games and other intensive stuff.

From AOL? No way would i touch that thing, ever! Antivir has suited me just fine.

Please do a simple search before making an assumption about AOL active virus shield. 🙂

Which one of those aol apps, processes, viruses, malware, etc that you have installed generated this reply?

At first I thought you were joking; now it's evident that you're clueless.
 
Originally posted by: homercles337
Originally posted by: John
Originally posted by: homercles337
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Laughingman12, no, antivirus is not bad for your hardware. If you need some good antivirus that's free for non-commercial use, use this one, except uncheck the box for the optional security toolbar during installation. 24 updates a day, very effective, and designed to yield CPU time to games and other intensive stuff.

From AOL? No way would i touch that thing, ever! Antivir has suited me just fine.

Please do a simple search before making an assumption about AOL active virus shield. 🙂

Which one of those aol apps, processes, viruses, malware, etc that you have installed generated this reply?
Keep digging... 😀

I have the full pay version of Kaspersky Antivirus 6, and have also tried the free AOL Kaspersky to compare them. I could understand people being skeptical, but it's the real thing here.
 
Originally posted by: John
Originally posted by: homercles337
Originally posted by: John
Originally posted by: homercles337
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Laughingman12, no, antivirus is not bad for your hardware. If you need some good antivirus that's free for non-commercial use, use this one, except uncheck the box for the optional security toolbar during installation. 24 updates a day, very effective, and designed to yield CPU time to games and other intensive stuff.

From AOL? No way would i touch that thing, ever! Antivir has suited me just fine.

Please do a simple search before making an assumption about AOL active virus shield. 🙂

Which one of those aol apps, processes, viruses, malware, etc that you have installed generated this reply?

At first I thought you were joking; now it's evident that you're clueless.

I forgot to 😛 Still, not gonna touch it though. Antivir hasnt let me down yet.
 
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