Norton security

[riggers]

Hi All.

I am having much much trouble lately,  my norton is about to run out. grrrrr. it is slowing my pc nearly to a halt. hmmm any ideas ? cost is  nearly £60 to renew. I have 23 days left.

riggers...............

[BeckyB]

Sorry Riggers - this isn't my sort of thing - basically I'm more than a bit rubbish when it comes to IT issues

Dare I say it & I hate passing the buck on other's behalf - but Mr Terry might just have a tip-top solution to help you out?
I know what you mean though, computers can be such a pain can't they?
BeckyB x

[dimitris]

I;m using
Avast antivirous  since two years with  no problems  and it's free as well.
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

[riggers]

Thankyou Dimitris.

I must get more info off you

cheers , yammas.

riggers............

[annie]

riggers
i run www.free.avg.com
which is free as well
annie

[justphil]

hi riggers

We paid for McAfee and like you say it slows everything down and keeps asking me to pay more money threatening that I'm not fully protected. To make matters worse, with it running we still got infected with a Trojan Horse virus and lost pictures, software and money.

I am convinced that the people who write virus software are the people who sell us the antivirus software. Cynical or what??

Sorry mate, that's me
Phil

[TONYNEW]

Hi riggers like Dimitris i use avast and its brilliant never had a prob with it
                             Tony

[Erja]

I have a FREE Zone Alarma and FREE AVG. Works just fine and has been working for a few years:

http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-gb/anti-virus-spyware-free-download.htm

http://free.avg.com/  (Annie posted this earlier)

[Corfusoon]

Hi there

You get what you pay for.

However, we have done extensive testing at work and AVG is excellent.

End of last year we stopped recommending Norton and now recommend AVG on stand alone systems. AVG free isnt as good as AVG internet security but it isnt bad at all and its free for home users.

http://free.avg.com/download?prd=afe

AVG internet security is under half the price of Norton.

Norton has become really fat and slow and uses up way more machine resourse than it should.

Regards

[ColinD]

Hi Riggers,

it's a long time now since I visited the site, as I have been very busy, but I thought I may be able to help here.

If you want a free antivirus, you can't beat AVG free.  It's better than many of the paid for ones, including Norton.

If you don't mind paying for an exceptionally good one, which I have now been using for some time, visit www.eset.co.uk  The one they sell is called NOD32, and it really is just about the best you can get, and it's quite a bit cheaper than Nortons too.

I had previously been using AVG free which is excellent, but when I switched to NOD32 it picked up a trojan that had been sitting on my computer for some time.  It didn't seem to have done anything harmful, which is probably why AVG had ignored it, but I'm glad it's no longer there!

All the best,
Colin

[ColinD]

I have a FREE Zone Alarma and FREE AVG. Works just fine and has been working for a few years:

http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-gb/anti-virus-spyware-free-download.htm

http://free.avg.com/  (Annie posted this earlier)

I also used Zone Alarm as a firewall for some time, and I agree it is excellent too, but my network router has a built-in firewall which caused conflicts with Zone Alarm, so I had to turn it off.

Regards,
Colin

[Corfusoon]

Nod 32 took down one of my customers servers in a way that leads me to think that their pre release Quality Assurance is in Microsofts league.

AVG clearly are going all out that they have something special.

As I say the free one isnt comprehensive on anything but Viruses. Trojans, Worms, Malware, anti intrusion it doesnt do. You can add all the other freebees on for this from zone alarm etc but in my experience this leads to conflicts and becomes heavy on start up.

Regards

[vivian]

Hi Rigger's Pete may be a bit of a nerd but he reckon's you will have no trouble at all with KASPERSKY defends from  ID theft, Spyware backdoors and other crimewaves, Hijacking, botnets and hacker attackes, kweyloggers, rootkits, phishing, spam, viruses, worms and trojans and a load more stufff that he talks about that I dont understand. Viv

[vivian]

Not telling anyone what to do but please DO NOT buy any Norten or Symantec products you could regret it.

[riggers]

Wow there is so many to choose from. Thanks all.

riggers...........