Recommend me an anti-virus package etc

[alexkp]

My Norton renewal is up soon - and this time it is £53!! Fecking rip-off - (Well, I think that the anti-virus companies write most of the viruses in the first place...)

More than the cash, I find Norton very clunky and it takes an age to start up and settle down.

What do you use / recommend?

[mentalsarcasm]

Norton still exists? WHY!?

I use Avast!, it's free, easy to use, get it from www.downloads.com

[toni896]

NOD32, seems a lot faster the AVG.
avast is good.

[deadslow]

NOD32 just do it!

[alexkp]

Do these include firewalls, trojan scanning etc?

How can it be free?

[FrootBat]

Avast is a good free alternative to paid for AV products.

However, if you are going to pay be aware that Kaspersky have the acknowledged best scan engine in the industry

[toni896]

NOD32 is nt free, but you get 30 days to eval it,


you can buy AVG/AVAST/NOD if you want to part with cash,
the paid fpr versions normally include spyware scanning as well.
firewall wise, no they dont as std,
if you have XP and a router with built in firewall that should be enough,
if you dont, the zonealarm do botha free and paid for firewall.

[mackie1]

I use avast and it's good.

[johnny.v]

Quinny said:

deadslow said:

NOD32 just do it!

Yep brilliant. Just goes about it's business.

Over a year now, no problems and no viruses

been useing nod32 myself for over a year now ,never been a problem.

[twerlie]

My friend is a professional hacker, and told me the best free anti-virus and firewall is AVG and Sygate.

Touch wood, i have never had a problem in the past 3 years of using them on my 4 computers!

[razerwire]

deadslow said:

NOD32 just do it!

another vote for nod32.

i use it, and apparantly it is a fairly good all-round scanner. not for the new user though as there are a fair few niggly little things that can be tweaked.

kaspersky antivirus is a good one, very user-friendly. nod32 is slightly better than kaspersky (not to mention faster), but is a biatch to set up properly.

imo, of course.

[andmole]

mackie1 said:

I use avast and it's good.

Another vote for Avast

[minimoog]

andmole said:

mackie1 said:

I use avast and it's good.

Another vote for Avast

Avast slowed my machine to a crawl while it was scanning. Binned it after a couple of days. AVG does the biz http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1

Can't fault Sygate Personal Firewall. Norton took it over and tried to suppress it (that tells you all you need to know) but you can still find it e.g. here www.tucows.com/start_dl/213160_90233_1356

Norton? Don't make me larf

[puffpuff]

Same problem here so thanks for the links, now switching from Norton to AVG and Sygate across our home network.

[theboss]

CA Antivirus is very good, and they do a home license for 3 PCs for 30 quid.

[warmfuzzies]

Kapersky, rated quite highly in independent reviews, and has not yet let me down, I wouldn't go near any symantec product, bloatware extraordinare

kip

[roadsweeper]

warmfuzzies said:

Kapersky, rated quite highly in independent reviews, and has not yet let me down, I wouldn't go near any symantec product, bloatware extraordinare

kip

A second vote for Kaspersky. Very, very highly rated within the industry.

[littlegreenfairy]

roadsweeper said:

warmfuzzies said:

Kapersky, rated quite highly in independent reviews, and has not yet let me down, I wouldn't go near any symantec product, bloatware extraordinare

kip

A second vote for Kaspersky. Very, very highly rated within the industry.

I've got a copy of it - can be a little over zelous at times - questions everything. Suppose it can only be a good thing really Nice to know its keeping on top of stuff.

[feldspar]

check www.pcpro.co.uk/shopper/labs/ and anti-virus test

Kasperspy and Steganous came out tops (Steganous has same AV engine but is £8 cheaper)

[slapmatt]

Have a look here for The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

I use AVG for anti-virus and Comodo for firewall (both free).