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Mark
02-Jun-2005, 10:46
As the title says, any worth geting other than Norton or Mcafee?

Having issues with both on my laptop recently.

Mark.
Dibble
02-Jun-2005, 10:47
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
02-Jun-2005, 10:50
That was quick mate! I've got spybot after you said it was good.

Thanks mate.
Mark
02-Jun-2005, 10:54
This is strange, I can open www.grisoft.com on main home pc, but not my laptop. What is that about?
:puzzled:
FiscusFish
02-Jun-2005, 11:03
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
02-Jun-2005, 11:15
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
02-Jun-2005, 11:18
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
02-Jun-2005, 23:07
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
03-Jun-2005, 07:37
Use AVG from grisoft, its free, daily updates so no problems:D


Chris.:burn:
Mark
03-Jun-2005, 07:54
Got AVG installed, cheers Dibbs :)
rcgbob44
03-Jun-2005, 09:18
I know so many people that have removed Mcaffee from there pc`s cos it slows the whole machine down and is crap!
JPM
03-Jun-2005, 11:24
F-Secure is another good AV product, Panda is another one, but don't know too much about that
Mr_S
03-Jun-2005, 15:41
Dibble's selections are good for freebies

F-Secure's excellent ( but the MD's a mate so I would say that)

Excellent free Firewall software from

www.kerio.com (used to be called Tiny Personal Firewall)

I get all mine for free, but, if I didn't I'd choose

Grisoft - AVG
Kerio - Firewall
Spybot - Spyware Remover

The Beta for the MS spyware solution is very, very good
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=321cd7a2-6a57-4c57-a8bd-dbf62eda9671&displaylang=en