Anti Virus Software
 

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.

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

Thanks mate.

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

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

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!

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]

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

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


Chris.:burn:

Got AVG installed, cheers Dibbs :)

I know so many people that have removed Mcaffee from there pc`s cos it slows the whole machine down and is crap!

F-Secure is another good AV product, Panda is another one, but don't know too much about that

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/d...displaylang=en