virus protection

NE1 · Neither Shallow Nor Sexist Joined: 15 May 2007 Posts: 1539

Ok technos, I need advice please.

My Norton antivrus protection needs renewing in 10 days time.

Do I renew it or do I go elsewhere? If so where please?

cardboardbox?Youwerelucky · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:10 pm Post subject:

AVG freebie

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Baldy · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:28 am Post subject:

Go AVG Bron

http://free.grisoft.com/doc/2/

NE1 · Neither Shallow Nor Sexist Joined: 15 May 2007 Posts: 1539

do I remove Norton or leave it on though out of date?

Baldy · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:11 am Post subject:

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Baldy · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:39 am Post subject:

Cant really say which is better, they both seem to do their jobs, and I know a few people who do use AVG, and never had any problems with virus's etc, similar story to Norton as well, though I used to use Norton mesen, and got infected on various occasions, I personally use VET antivirus anyway, but if it's free and it works fine then go with AVG..

Main thing with either, is that you keep your virus deffinitions up to date..

HarryofOz · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 10:18 am Post subject:

The trouble with Norton is that it is highly protective and a bit precious and may not let you operate AVG while it is active. It tries to stop lots of stuff like Spybot and other similar programs.

I don't know if you only want an anti-virus or you want something broader that includes a firewall and so on but the free AVG version is only an anti-virus as far as I know.

I have the full version of AVG and it appears to be working. I downloaded it from the Net and the licence cost me 90 Australia dollars (40 pounds) for two years. Which was well worth it in my opinion.

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raveydavey · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:16 pm Post subject:

nlag · Guest

As ravey sayd, you should not run more than one anti virus or fire wall at a time because they will conflict with each other.

cardboardbox?Youwerelucky · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:13 pm Post subject:

A friend of mine fixes computers for a living and recommends AVG on his website

Norton needs an enormous amount of memory usage and is one of the reasons peoples computers eventually stop working - mcafee is also the same (apparantly) - get zonealarm if you want a free firewall.

Other valid point he makes is that hackers / virus writers ALWAYS go after Norton as its the most well known and is a feather in their cap if they achieve their goal - so by going for a less popular one you are more likely NOT to be targeted.

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nlag · Guest

I will say this.....I use Norton anti virus and inetrnet security. It has an overhead on my machine, but when I got it built, I asked for extra resources. I use it because I have never had a virus, trojan anything....I had infections on 2 PC's using AVG / Zonealarm.

This is not an emotive issue for me....I can't get excited about it, as I have seen others do (not on here I hasten to add Very Happy

)....For me, I need a working PC in order to trade, and memory is cheap......

Cozy · Yorkshire pud Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 83

I've always used either AVG or Norton, the latter usually slows your system slightly and it has be known to conflict with other programmes as others have put but I've always found it to be slightly more efficient at stopping viruses before they infect your machine.

AVG does it's job though seemingly just as well but doesn't 'look' as nice in my opinion. But on the other hand your machine doesn't seem to be as slow when it's sat on there.