Random Shout Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 Anti-Virus free download or do we choose an anti-virus that we have to pay annual for and they are not cheap, Norton anti-virus like to con people they make you download the programme for free then even if you have a good anti-virus the free one that you have downloaded such as Norton will do a free scan then it also tell you that you have some trojen virus ect. your free one such as Avast won't find anything (usually) The Norton one will than say if you want to get rid of these virus's ect. then you will have to pay just £39.99 or around that price (just for a year). I know a person who is a computer whizz kid said that the anti-virus's that you pay for are a rip off (he's had the internet for about 13 year and never had any problems and has never paid for an anti-virus!) Places like PC World try to force you to buy an anti-virus (because it's commision for them) but is it actually worth it? is also a firewall enough? latley i've seen anti-intusion programmes as well but are these similar to the windows defender programme and the anti-spy programmes such as Spybot search and destroy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitisbad Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 just scan yoru computer with malwarebytes and use avast antivirus. both free and good programs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lobster Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 AVG free anti virus is pretty good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resident Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 I've done the whole paid-for route before, including Norton and tbh the free ones have done exactly the same job. I'm currently running Microsoft Security Essentials and it's doing it's job fine. I hardly notice it's there in terms of system resources and it only bugs me every other week if I haven't done a scan, of which a quick scan solves that. I've just set it all to auto for the updates and I leave it alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stimpy Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 wrong section to start with but search the compy section. It has been discussed a million times and nobody agrees which is best as someone has always had a problem with every piece of AV going! The free ones are just as good, sometimes better than the paid ones. Go with what works best with your computer. yes I have my grumpy head on today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphy Jnr Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 We use AVG and it does the job. Had a spell with Avast but it slowed the system down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikes10 Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 Microsoft SEcurity Essentials (MSE) offers very good protection it uses the same search engine and database as as Microsoft Forfront Security as used in corporate environments. MSE is free, its as good as ( not better than ) other free / subscription antivirus software (AVS) AVS is only half of it, what is also required is good practise by the user If you want to visit salacious, crack, hack, file-sharing sites then you should also expect to get infested with malware. The AVS applicaiton does not exist that protects you from all malware, but the user can do alot to help themselves. Ensure you operting system is up-to-date Ensure your AVS is up-to-date Ensure third party software is up-to-date Run regular malware scans: Malwarebytes is good for this Delete temp and cached files: CCleaner is good for this Backup your important data If you are using Windows-7, learn how to create a system image (you will have to invest in an extrnal hard drive) AVoid installing browser toolbars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rand Hobart Posted September 28, 2011 Share Posted September 28, 2011 Who is your isp. I'm with BT and they offer BT netProtect Plus for the package I'm on, for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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