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Old 31 March 2004, 02:17 PM
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Question What Anti-Virus ?
Looking for some information on Anti-Virus,

not happy with AVG

looking at

Norton 2004
Mcafee
Panda

views and comments appreciated

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ps

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

can anybody advise
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Old 31 March 2004, 02:21 PM
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I work for McAfee, couldn't possibly comment.
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Old 31 March 2004, 02:43 PM
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Sophos here
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Old 31 March 2004, 02:45 PM
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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.
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Another vote for Mcafee, I use v7 pro, nothing wrong with it, picks up ambigious virii easily n new auto updates daily.
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Old 31 March 2004, 03:04 PM
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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.
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Another vote for Sophos.
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somebody has said norton slows down your PC ie memory usage
I can quite honestly put my hand on my heart and say I've never noticed it !!
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No probs with Sophos either
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Used McAfee @ home and @ work for the past 4 years and never (touch wood) had an infection.

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One more for Sophos as well
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McAfee here and yes a ex employee

but would still recommend them for AV and Firewall
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How do you lot afford Sophos, it was £99.00 last time I looked!
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Originally Posted by JackClark
How do you lot afford Sophos, it was £99.00 last time I looked!
Corporate Connect - Free home use for employees
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Old 31 March 2004, 08:26 PM
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have been offered VIRUS SCAN 8 (2004) at a good price - any users of this version?
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another for Norton good with Kazaa,stopped a couple of download that we're infected

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>>Corporate Connect - Free home use for employees

Ahh, my favorite price.
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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.
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>> 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
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I use Norton, and since I ve been "on it" I've been virus free!!
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Mcafee for me, no issues in all the time that I have been using it, must be 8/9 years now!
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Originally Posted by JackClark
How do you lot afford Sophos, it was £99.00 last time I looked!
Although I bought it - the Evaluation one is free on sophos site and is no different.
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Old 01 April 2004, 10:07 PM
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Jase - Out of interest. Why didn't you like AVG? Their reputation is pretty good.

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I have used Norton for yonks and eons... gets my vote.
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used AVG 7 and got infected

was up to date and it did not pick up a virus !!!
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Avast has their Home edition available free for personal use. http://www.avast.com/i_idt_153.html
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I`m a computer `numbskull`, why do I need an anti-virus?
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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.
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Oh, cheers Jack. Might just go & look at the free one as above.
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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.
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