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Old 18-04-2008, 23:40   #12
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Re: PC Guard

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Originally Posted by JadeFalcon View Post
i ALWAYS advise dumping anything like pcguard / mcafee / norton as they are ALL system hungry, i always prefer a tool to be good at ONE thing and not try to be half good at everything, so i suggest using the standard windows firewall, with AVG free edition for the antivirus and ad-aware/spybot S&D (both free) for spyware detection and removal. these 3 running will consume alot less space and resources than any complete package
Adaware used to be wonderful, but the latest one is worse than Norton for using up your memory. It even pinches it when not running, I would avoid it like the plague now.Oh- it can also be an absolute swine to uninstall .
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