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Title: Anti virus
Post by: markyd on October 05, 2006, 17:02:10

My free trial perod has run out with my current anti virus programe, bulldog, and tbh not all that impressed. what Anti viurs programes are you running, and what do you recommend? I have Norton before, and that was dog poo.

If its free even better Wink

ta

Title: Anti virus
Post by: missroadrage on October 05, 2006, 17:06:48

http://www.free-av.com/

its free it does regular updates if you choose to & I've had no problems whereas I had loads with Norton :wink:

Title: Anti virus
Post by: ian_s on October 05, 2006, 17:08:24

i use mcafee, but the enterprise version, not the home one.

AVG (http://free.grisoft.com/) is free, and is aparently very good but i've never used it.

Title: Anti virus
Post by: thermidorthelobster on October 05, 2006, 17:15:02

AVG is excellent, and reasonably priced.  I know a lot of people who use it.  Some of the big-name stuff is trash (as in, the commercial agreement you sign is a joke, and the software itself is almost virus-like in its tenacity if you try to remove it.)

Title: Anti virus
Post by: Horness on October 05, 2006, 17:17:30

NOD32 by http://www.eset.com/ (http://www.eset.com/)

When it comes to protection, the so called freebies out there do an okay job, but not 100%.  Yes it's £23 a year, but it works.  Beats the likes of Norton and McAfee into the ground. :wink:

Horness

Title: Anti virus
Post by: markyd on October 05, 2006, 17:29:47

thanks guys i will give avg a go :wink:

Title: Anti virus
Post by: Rangie3.0LtrDan on October 05, 2006, 17:36:33

AVG Free Edition, its legally free and is fantastic!  You can download it at http://free.grisoft.com

Title: Anti virus
Post by: wing nut on October 05, 2006, 19:37:25

i use avast anti virus (free) and very good

Title: Anti virus
Post by: Bob696 on October 05, 2006, 20:02:19

another vote for avaste here

Title: Anti virus
Post by: Rich_P on October 05, 2006, 20:05:12

Vote for AVG here.

Title: Anti virus
Post by: ChrisW on October 05, 2006, 20:15:26

Quote from: "Horness"

NOD32 by http://www.eset.com/ (http://www.eset.com/)

When it comes to protection, the so called freebies out there do an okay job, but not 100%.  Yes it's £23 a year, but it works.  Beats the likes of Norton and McAfee into the ground. :wink:

Horness

We've just upgraded to that on all the PC's at work - seems very good so far

Title: Anti virus
Post by: schuee on October 05, 2006, 21:58:14

I vote AVG profesional, use it at home, work, quick response from Grisoft if any probs, brillaint product.

Schuee

Title: Anti virus
Post by: robpark on October 06, 2006, 12:04:33

My vote goes to AVG (free version). I've been using it for 12 months and has been excellent. I've used many different (and expensive) AV products over the years and Grisoft are as good as any, much better than most ...and you can't get cheaper  :D

Title: Anti virus
Post by: MrShogun on October 06, 2006, 14:17:11

AVG! :)

Title: Anti virus
Post by: Horness on October 06, 2006, 14:27:40

Quote from: "ChrisW"

We've just upgraded to that on all the PC's at work - seems very good so far

You won't have any problems Chris (if it's been installed and administered correctly of course!) - I've implemented it in a number of clients over the last 2 years, and their virus problems have dropped to zero.  Total users for all clients is around 1100.

AVG did not do as well as expected in our tests (free & paid version).  We infected a machine with a number of known common, and no-so-common viruses, and tested the effectiveness and speed of each AV package to clean things back up to normal.  Only NOD32 and Norton were 100% effective, with Norton being much slower, and having a big impact on client speed.

Title: Anti virus
Post by: dazzawhipple on October 06, 2006, 14:37:31

I use avast seems okay for me

Darren

Title: Anti virus
Post by: Blippie on October 09, 2006, 13:31:02

We use AVG.

Norton virtually destroyed the performance of our machine.  AVG is very userfriendly.

Cheers

Blippie

Title: Anti virus
Post by: NeilWilson on October 09, 2006, 13:52:34

avg & sygate firewall - both have free versions.

I spent about 6hrs this weekend repairing a friends pc that had been left unusable with a norton upgrade.

Neil