Looking for some information on Anti-Virus,

not happy with AVG

looking at

Norton 2004
Mcafee
Panda

views and comments appreciated

thanks

jase


ps

somebody has said norton slows down your PC ie memory usage ?

can anybody advise

 

I work for McAfee, couldn't possibly comment.

 

Sophos here

 

McAfee are top notch - and I certainly don't work for them.

For the home desktop the other alternatives I would trust are Kapersky and Norton.

 

Another vote for Mcafee, I use v7 pro, nothing wrong with it, picks up ambigious virii easily n new auto updates daily.

 

I could say the same for the Norton products. Been using them for years with no problems (using 2004 at the moment and it works really well). A friend has McAfee and she has had a lot of problems with it (not auto-updating properly, not removing virus infections such as mydoom from the machine etc), but I think that's probably more down to her particular machine than the antivirus software.

Basically from what I've heard, there's not a lot to choose between them.

 

Another vote for Sophos.

 

I can quite honestly put my hand on my heart and say I've never noticed it !!

 

No probs with Sophos either

 

Used McAfee @ home and @ work for the past 4 years and never (touch wood) had an infection.

Stefan

 

One more for Sophos as well

 

McAfee here and yes a ex employee

but would still recommend them for AV and Firewall

 

How do you lot afford Sophos, it was £99.00 last time I looked!

 

Corporate Connect - Free home use for employees

 

have been offered VIRUS SCAN 8 (2004) at a good price - any users of this version?

 

another for Norton good with Kazaa,stopped a couple of download that we're infected

mike

 

>>Corporate Connect - Free home use for employees

Ahh, my favorite price.

 

PANDA. 10outof10 do a lot of pc repairs and use the online ACTIVESCAN from panda to check for infections.
usually finds stuff on systems which have norton and mcafee installed(and updated).
so i always recommend panda titanium or platinum.

 

>> usually finds stuff on systems which have norton and mcafee installed(and updated).

Not likely. Try Freescan next time http://us.mcafee.com/root/mfs/default.asp

 

I use Norton, and since I ve been "on it" I've been virus free!!

 

Mcafee for me, no issues in all the time that I have been using it, must be 8/9 years now!

 

Although I bought it - the Evaluation one is free on sophos site and is no different.

 

Jase - Out of interest. Why didn't you like AVG? Their reputation is pretty good.

Chris

 

I have used Norton for yonks and eons... gets my vote.

 

used AVG 7 and got infected

was up to date and it did not pick up a virus !!!

 

Avast has their Home edition available free for personal use. http://www.avast.com/i_idt_153.html

 

I`m a computer `numbskull`, why do I need an anti-virus?

 

n one, it'll stop your machine from becoming victim to a computer virus or more importantly will stop your machine contributing to the problem of computer viruses which are passed from machine to machine.

 

Oh, cheers Jack. Might just go & look at the free one as above.

 

n one - a firewall is just as important mate - stops unauthorised access in and out of your PC. ZoneAlarm is a good free one you can use.