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+1 for avast

also plan on using my alienware for the next 3 decades when it'll finally die or can't load the millions of 600MB .gif that''ll be around

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Originally Posted by Erat (Post 1397194)

Also, winxp is so very unsecure. Nobody should be using it anyway.

This. For a basic web browsing machine, no one should be using Microsoft Windows anything. Instead, use your favorite Linux distribution or just get a Macbook/ iPad. Ain't nobody got time to wait for a Windows machine to boot up and Internet Explorer to open.

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Originally Posted by samnavy (Post 1417132)

Everything loads crazy quick

For now. Give it a few weeks/months and the familiar Microsoft Windows sluggishness will return.

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Originally Posted by samnavy (Post 1417132)

The wifi this thing came with consisted of the cheapest non-branded Chinese dongle I've ever seen.

That's so 2003 to use a dongle for WiFi on a laptop.

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Originally Posted by samnavy (Post 1417132)

Just for shitz, whats the latest/best free anti-virus I should look at?

IMO nothing free is all that great. And this is coming from someone who uses a free app, Sophos, on their Macbook. They all have pros/cons. Kaspersky if you're a conservative beholden to Trump/Putin/FSB. Macafee/Symantec if you'd rather support the NSA's abilities to snoop. All the top firms are pretty much the same: they actively hunt down malware/virus/trojans while selling zero-days to state security apparatus and creating a convenient vector for them once the inevitable cyber war flares up.