Virus Protection? What's best?

Tacoma747 said:
We have Norton right now, and it is begging for us to get a new subscription to it. What I am wanting to know before the $50 (even though it is my mom's) is spent on the Norton, is there anything better for less money?

Thanks
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Norton is about as good as any and if you watch Staples you can get your upgrade to 2006 for free with a rebate.

McAfee is a good product also, many believe it to be the best.
 
I'm running McAfee at home, we also run it here at work (among other things).

Though before we had the personal use license, I was running AVG. McAfee is MUCH better.
 
NOD 32 is the best I've run. ran free AVG before and I didn't think it was all that great.
 
Norton Corp has been real good at stopping stuff for me (although there are 4 versions of the trojan virus it still can't bust on my laptop thats quarantened for the last year :rolleyes: )

I truly believe Norton has hidden bugs that require you to have McAfee and vice versa :mad: I almost believe they're all in kahoots together :p

At any rate, I pay to renew every year if that helps
 
I only run mcafee. I refuse to use norton and any of their products. Norton has missed some things and when we switched to mcafee it found those virus's and thats enough to make me loyal. Just personnal preference
 
You get what you pay for with AVG free but it is still better than nothing. My preference is Trend Micro. I have used Symantec (Norton more or less) and while it is a PITA it works. I gave up on McAffee years ago when it would crash nearly anything you put it on. It sounds like it has improved greatly. Kaspersky isn't bad either but like Symantec it loves to chew up resources.
 
I use AVG on most of my stuff.

To be honest - they ALL miss a few things.
Just DIFFERENT things.

Norton (Symantec) seems to be the worst resource hog.

Every couple weeks I use Trendmicro housecall

The combination seems to work.
 
As long as someone is talkin about computers, does anyone know a way to boost signal reception on say a crappy little wireless card for a labtop. I have seen some of those big *** cone things and such, but i don't know what to trust and don't have money for much. Any suggestions?
 
Do you have roadrunner? If you do you can download the CA antivirus, firewall, and popup/spam blocker. Just go to rr.com and search for it. I use it and have had no problems.
 
hightime81 said:
As long as someone is talkin about computers, does anyone know a way to boost signal reception on say a crappy little wireless card for a labtop. I have seen some of those big *** cone things and such, but i don't know what to trust and don't have money for much. Any suggestions?
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Try moving the router around?
Those gagets probably won't work, I would say a new/better router. But that's not exactly cheap.
 
Ditch Norton. Stay far, far away. At work some servers became infected, and Norton Corp couldn't catch it. We put on Avast (free @ avast.com) and it found all kinds of things.

Just over this past Christmas, I was working on my aunt's computer. Someone observing was quizzing me as to why I was removing Norton... well once Avast was up and running, it found a Trojan that Norton hadn't caught. He was sold right there.

I run Avast on ALL my computers. Free stuff RULES - especially when it works better than the pay stuff.
 
Bobby D. said:
Raising the dead
What is the best Virus Protection now a days?
Avast? Trend? etc?
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These days I am pretty happy with MSE- Microsoft Security Essentials, it is free from Microsoft now, and I have had no issues. It has found a few threats and got rid of them for me. I have been virus free for about a year now with it, even with my wife who is, let's say computer illiterate, and got quite a few viruses during college, she didn't understand that you are not supposed to click on every link you get in an email :lol:.

AVG Free was always good for me as well, although I noticed AVG used ALOT of resources to run on the computer, while MSE runs pretty quietly in the background.
 
I switched from AVG to Avast a few months ago and am happy. As others have said, AVG was very heavy, and they made it where you couldn't disable it, which was the final straw for me.
 
I used to use AVG, then switched to Avast. Now I just use Microsoft Security Essentials.

I've never had a virus, but I doubt that's because of my AV software. :)

I also use firefox and thunderbird.
 
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