skifly Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 Just wondering what anyones thoughts were on antivirus as my Norton 05 subscription just ran out. Have access to mcafee enterprise version through a friend who does a bit of it work but have not heard great feedback on it... any ideas/preferences anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bounce Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 i just use AVG, its free and has never let me down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 Buy Norton's from Play.com cheaper than the offer from Norton and buying from anywhere else. Cost me £17 delivered iirc. I tried Mcaffee and didnt like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 NOD32 - i used to be a Norton fanboy, made the switch from NAV06 and my machine is MUCH more responsive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 I use AVG on mine and have had no issue with it that I can find. Great for free if you ask me. Not a fan of McAfee or Norton to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malagus Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 I use antivir, which IIRC is v.similar to AVG, and it works great for me, just needs updating regularly, but who cares when its free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 All anti-virus programs need updating regularly, free or not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpellypo Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 Nooooo. Norton is really really badly written. Mcafee is much better, but does hog resources like nothing else I've ever seen. AVG is free, and does work, and is quite a small program, so you can't really do badly with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundwave Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 I also use AVG. Norton and McAfee do give good protection also but they slow down the PC quite a bit, especially the norton which is very resource hungry. I find the AVG to be the most simplistic and easy to use and it hardly slows the PC down at all. Not only that, but it gives you a nice little signature at the bottom of your incoming emails (assuming you are using outlook express or outlook) to show that it has been scanned with AVG. The signature will tell you whether the email was clean or infected, and will clean the email if it's the latter, usually by way of deletion or quarantining of the attachment or email contents. If you do decide to go down the McAfee or Norton route, then make sure your machine has AT LEAST 512Mb of memory (assuming you are using windows XP) because anything less and your PC will eventually grind to a halt with the addition of either of these programs, and the frustration of a slow and hesitant pc will cause you to promptly uninstall them in any event. Either way, i'd go for the AVG, particularly if your system memory is below 512Mb. Make sure you download the free edition as there are paid-for variants which look identical. The site is free.grisoft.com, click 'get avg free' and scroll down to the download link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skifly Posted May 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 righty then - looks like avg it will be... and will hold you all personally responsible if it all goes t!ts up! So where is the norton folder to delete it? Oh and computer should be ok... its have about 200gb of memory... *well thats what the bird was saying earlier when she shaw my post. Not will educate her about why i dont let her play with my comp. Have to admit mcafee on work lappy has a bad tendancy to eat cpu... think it is scan32.exe that does the dirty but then again norton is just plain tempremental! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drpellypo Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 [ QUOTE ] righty then - looks like avg it will be... and will hold you all personally responsible if it all goes t!ts up! So where is the norton folder to delete it? Oh and computer should be ok... its have about 200gb of memory... *well thats what the bird was saying earlier when she shaw my post. Not will educate her about why i dont let her play with my comp. Have to admit mcafee on work lappy has a bad tendancy to eat cpu... think it is scan32.exe that does the dirty but then again norton is just plain tempremental! [/ QUOTE ] Norton is awful software. A good friend of mine used to work on their programming team, and left as he was so appauled at how many corners they cut etc. Norton stops people from viewing thumbnails on my website too, so it gets a big thumbs down from me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 i have to say I have found it "safe" but otherwise fine, whereas McAfee ground a few PCs down of friends and BORKed 1 or 2. Only when i swithced to NOD though did i really see how much resource was being eaten up by NAV [on a 1gb pc] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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