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[Mark]

As the title says, any worth geting other than Norton or Mcafee?

Having issues with both on my laptop recently.

Mark.

www.grisoft.com

Just get the AVG Free Edition, works a treat.

Add Zone Alarm if you need a firewall.

And Spybot 1.3 if you need anti spyware stuff .... seems to look after my laptop.

[Mark]

That was quick mate! I've got spybot after you said it was good.

Thanks mate.

[Mark]

This is strange, I can open www.grisoft.com on main home pc, but not my laptop. What is that about?

[FiscusFish]

Another vote for AVG Free. Website here http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php Had endless problems with Norton AV, been fine with AVG Free.

For a firewall I use Sygate Personal Firewall (Again free) http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm . I find it's less of a pain than the Zonealarm equivalent.

Darren

[rockhopper]

I've been using AVG for a while now, it does what it says on the tin kind of thing and its free so thats even better!

[HW]

I have recently been recommended to ditch Norton and use AVAST. It's free, regular updates and does atttempt to fix the damaged files where Norton invariably says it cannot.

I also use AdAware as an Adware/Spyware prevention. Works well, cheap (£30?) and has rescused many friends PCs from "death by adware". It removed over 2000 adware objects from a neighbours PC, it was taking half an hour just to boot it.

[Edited on 2-6-2005 by HW]

[crm250]

what trouble you having with mcaffee ?? i know version 9 is slower than a slow thing but V8 is still my flavour of choice for 550 users by far

[chris.p]

Use AVG from grisoft, its free, daily updates so no problems


Chris.

[Mark]

Got AVG installed, cheers Dibbs