Anti Virus

[Bluevelvet]

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[Podie]

Norton or McAfee should be fine.

[Big Al.]

There is a freebee at Grisoft.com, kept my PC clean for a couple of years.

[tycho]

Personally I would get shut of Norton asap as it is crap. It seems to try and take over your machine too much for my liking.
I have just installed AVG as it is free for personal use. Loads of peeps have recommended it to me and it seems to do the job well.

[FunkyNige]

People are saying Norton is the AOL of the antivirus world. I didn't have a problem with it, but when they wanted me to pay for it (I know, how dare they!) I switched to the free AVG one from Grisoft.

There are ways of preventing viruses getting onto your computer in the first place, the most obvious of which is ditching Outlook and swapping to Mozilla Thunderbird. Most viruses exploit problems in the Outlook code so swapping email clients can help

[Podie]

Norton is effective, although to get the most out of it you do need to tweak the features a fair bit.

I prefer McAfee as I find it's interface a little nicer.

Never had a problem with either.

[coach]

Podie said:

Norton is effective, although to get the most out of it you do need to tweak the features a fair bit. I prefer McAfee as I find it's interface a little nicer. Never had a problem with either.

I eventualy went for Mcafee as it seemed to cane the actual PC less then Norton 2005

[Raify]

I can second the recommendation for AVG. I asked the same question a few months ago when my Norton was up for renewal, switched to AVG and I'm very happy.

[GregE240]

One years free trial of a CA anti virus product?

Renewable after twelve months...ahem

Try this: http://store.ca.com/dr/v2/ec_main.entry25?page=PYPCtrialPage_MSsite&client=ComputerAssociates&sid=55939&CID=190471

(click the "One Year FREE Trial"

Got it on the home PC...works like a charm....

Greg

[Plotloss]

Norton

The AOL of AVG's

Swerve.