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Offline DnStClr

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Anybody use Avast Antivirus?
« on: May 16, 2008, 01:54:48 am »
A friend told me to download Avast because it's a good program for antivirus and it's free. Has anybody tried it? I use Mozilla Firefox for my default browser and as I was registering for the download there were supposed to be some letters I needed to copy , but they didn't show up. So I wasn't able to continue with the download. I need to change my browser setting to show visuals, but I don't know how to do that. Can anybody lead me thru it? It's gotta be simple to do, but, well... :D 
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Re: Anybody use Avast Antivirus?
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2008, 04:51:59 am »
Try downloading it with Internet Explorer. If you have windows Vista I wouldn't bother with it but if you have XP or a bootleg copy go for it.
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Re: Anybody use Avast Antivirus?
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2008, 07:13:01 am »
I use Avast, & Spybot. Both work very well for me.
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Re: Anybody use Avast Antivirus?
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2008, 07:30:45 am »
I used them a while back (3yrs)... you really have to keep on top of things and download and install updates. At least that's how it was then. After a while, I got tired of all the work.
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Re: Anybody use Avast Antivirus?
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2008, 10:34:31 am »
Man it seems like there's  new updates every day.
I tried to download it with IE but still didn't get the letters. I know I'm doing something wrong.
« Last Edit: May 16, 2008, 10:54:35 am by DnStClr »
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Re: Anybody use Avast Antivirus?
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2008, 10:11:25 am »
I use Mozilla exclusively (I also run a IE tab in Mozilla just in case) and didn't have any problems with Avast.  I have it on 2 or 3 machines...