Anti virus software

[Ja5on]

alrighty ppl.

the norton antivirus software on my laptop is just bout to expire and was wondering if there any better ones available for download??

resonable price!!

all suggestions welcome

 

[MRBILLYUK]

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-virus-free/lng/us/tpl/v5

^^^
Avg

 

[Davey_182]

AVG Free, used it for years! You can download it from computer active's website its a really good bit of kit

 

[ollie]

Nod 32 every time.

 

[Ja5on]

mcafee?

 

[ollie]

mcafee?

your better off with nod mate, uses no resources at all.

I remember trying mcafee on my mums comp.... not great tbh...

 

[Ja5on]

cheers mate, i had a look at the nod site.

which package did u go for?

 

[davejm123]

I got NOD32 on recommendation from Ollie, good stuff

 

[Ja5on]

which package mate?? theres loads of nod ones, dontwanna get the wrong one

 

[MRBILLYUK]

Get avg mate . Its good enough for me and my pc's on 24/7 downloading alsorts , been using it for years and never had a virus yet( touch wood )

 

[JuanBoy]

AVG Free is an excellent freebie - updates everyday, less system resource hungry than Norton, and wont hassle you for money!! Uninstal Norton and grab a copy ... http://free.grisoft.com/softw/70free/setup/avg75free_463a1000.exe

 

[ollie]

which package mate?? theres loads of nod ones, dontwanna get the wrong one

alright mate... ill pm you..

 

[furry_cup]

AVG

 

[Michael172]

Nod 32 every time.

works in vista too i think. i used ot use this in winxp x64

 

[ollie]

Nod 32 every time.

works in vista too i think. i used ot use this in winxp x64

yep, i had it working on Vista too, for the short period i was actually using Vista anyway

 

[ollie]

I got NOD32 on recommendation from Ollie, good stuff

hiya sweet cheeks :rasp:

 

[Tigger]

Is there any features that NOD32 doesn't have that may be useful ?

Does it block spyware & adware etc?

 

[Griff]

Is there any features that NOD32 doesn't have that may be useful ?

Does it block spyware & adware etc?

Antivirus Software - Eliminate Spyware, and Adware with NOD32 Antivirus from ESET.

 

[Scutch]

What does AVG do? I had Norton on my Acer laptop but it was f*cking sh*t. Kept crashing and stuff. Uninstalled and installed McAfee which seems ok. So is the general consensus that McAfee is sh*t too?

 

[rich[182]]

Best Anti Virus software imo is Kaspersky, do a quick search online and most of the security websites with reviews say it's ahead of all the others for detection %, update frequency, system resources and scanning time, also comes with Anti Spyware that is almost as good as Webroot's Spysweeper
If you get the Kaspersky Internet security suite it also comes with a good software firewall and various other utils

I recently had various probs and Kaspersky along with Spysweeper found loads of things that AVG, Avast, A2squared, Adaware, Norton, McAfee didn't have a clue about

Still have hardware SPI firewall as well though

Virus is approx £15 PCWORLD
http://www.kaspersky.com/kav6?chapter=185166547

Full suite £25 PCWORLD
http://www.kaspersky.com/kis6?chapter=185166750

 

[JonnyK]

i have used most,, recently switched to nod32 and it is amazing.. doesn't seem to slow my pc down as much as others

 

[Brasseye]

I use some thing called avast

Its free

You need to register every 14 months

 

[herkescup]

As said, AVG all the way if you need one, but i havnt used antivirus/firewall in a long time without problems. Just have to look out for what your doing!

 

[JoelDee]

AVG

Ad-ware

Done

 

[rich[182]]

Free products I'd use Avast anti-virus with AVG anti-spyware, the new Adaware has a very poor detection rate, but to be honest after my recent nightmare problems I'm not touching anything other than Kaspersky and Webroot, The sheer number of issues that no less than 7 other products combined (all fully upto date) didn't pick up, was unbelievable