PC Guard & Windows 7 Compatibility

[Greyze]

Download Avira anti virus, currently rated as one of the highest quality AV programs to date and its free.
Also get Spybot search and destroy and "immunize" your PC, and finally use Firefox.

These programs will keep you protected from pretty much anything you find on the internet, if you really want a firewall too, feel free to go for any lightweight one.

Stay away from PC guard because it sucks ass for protection. How do I know this? I am a technician at a PC repair store and we get LOADS of PCs flooded with viruses and they all have PC guard installed.

If you don't want Avira then I can suggest Avast, they are pretty much the most decent and free programs around, AVG isn't really powerful so I don't recommend it.

Aviras nag screens get on my boobies lol

btw there are a fair few PC techs here hope you didnt expect to be alone lol lol lol

[Greyze]

Originally Posted by zing

Aviras nag screens get on my boobies lol

btw there are a fair few PC techs here hope you didnt expect to be alone lol lol lol

Well the nag screen only pops up every few days, and its just a simple click off, a worthy advert for such great protection and if you wanted to, its possible to disable the nag screen from appearing.

Oh yes I know there are plenty of techs here! I feel compelled to mention it though because i've been on plenty of forums and seem to have to announce myself in some way before helping hehe

[graf_von_anonym]

Originally Posted by zing

why are they using such an out of date version of Kaspersky?

Virgin don't develop PC Guard themselves, they buy it in from a company called Radialpoint, based in Canada. Radialpoint also provide the PC Guard software, unbranded, as 'Freedom', and supply it to at least one of the US cable operators too. Radialpoint recently decided that the effort of writing their own AV software was perhaps wasted, so decided to license Kaspersky.

Kaspersky provide their own product, so in providing the PC Guard software they are effectively opening up an avenue of competition with themselves. If they don't license the ne plus ultra version there's a benefit to their potential customers in "upgrading". Admittedly, the amount that Radialpoint (and then Kaspersky) pocket from a PC Guard installation will probably be quite small - I imagine that the licensing is a block sum rather than a per-user basis, which has the advantage of smoothing the revenue curve. It also opens a new income stream for Kaspersky, in that iirc they don't offer a free product, but at the price that it's watered down to avoid cannibalising their main offering

yeah but its old. Watered down and limited I can understand out of date I can not

[bomber_g]

just like to advertise comodo again

everyone get comodo! get it now! it's free! woo comodo!

I should be getting paid for this

[Graham M]

Originally Posted by bomber_g

just like to advertise comodo again

everyone get comodo! get it now! it's free! woo comodo!

I should be getting paid for this

Maybe you are?

*Finger twitches on the ban button*

[BenMcr]

http://www.virginmedia.com/help/windows7.php for the official details of W7 and VM

[Graham M]

404 error here Ben

[BenMcr]

Doh http://www.virginmedia.com/help/windows7.php link location was different than the text

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Doh http://www.virginmedia.com/help/windows7.php link location was different than the text

still 404

---------- Post added at 17:36 ---------- Previous post was at 17:35 ----------

http://www.virginmedia.com/help/windows7.php

for some reason your link is missing help lol if you copy your link it works if you click it it does not . My link works for ya lol

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Doh http://www.virginmedia.com/help/windows7.php link location was different than the text

That does not work either so how about this one.

http://www.virginmedia.com/help/windows7.php

[BenMcr]