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Mar 5, 2009 | 11:20 AM

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What anti virus software?

Time to renew my anti virus and have been using Mcafee Internet Security which I bought for £7 as a 3 user license oem version.

Seems Mcafee have put a stop to that but i'm not paying Mcafee's prices of £25+ just for one license.

Seen lots of people saying Kaspersky are their favoured av product. Why is it rated highly and can you get cheap 3 user license versions?

Mar 5, 2009 | 12:38 PM

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Seen lots of people saying Kaspersky are their favoured av product. Why is it rated highly and can you get cheap 3 user license versions?

Good detection rate and efficient I suppose. My dad got it for £15 for a three user license in PC world but not sure if any offers are about now.

Nod32 I will recommend as ever, but that cost's more than £25 IIRC

Mar 5, 2009 | 12:48 PM

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in a lab test from pcpro, avira came top!

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Mar 5, 2009 | 01:59 PM

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ESNET is very good indeed and was suggested to me by several IT professionals. Small system footprint and does everything you need.

Do not get Norton - utter system hog!

Mar 5, 2009 | 03:19 PM

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I use Kaspersky on my computer and AVG (free) on my wife's. Both seem to be fine and Kaspersky has certainly saved me a few times whilst looking for, erm, interesting software!

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Mar 5, 2009 | 03:58 PM

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Thanks for the replies. I've found a 1 user oem dvd for Mcafee for £7.50 delivered so tempted to stay with that now so haven't got to uninstall etc. What is better about Kaspersky that is worth the extra money and hassle over Mcafee Internet Security suite?

Mar 5, 2009 | 05:33 PM

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Smaller footprint, less bloat, faster. Does a similar job though...

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Mar 5, 2009 | 05:46 PM

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I too have found both Norton and MacAfee to be very system hungry

I now use AVG free. No probs so far, touch wood.

Mar 5, 2009 | 06:00 PM

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I now use AVG free. No probs so far, touch wood.

Have you seen how many posts there have been on here recently about people getting infected with nasty things whilst having AVG installed? Not at all recommended.

Good luck

Mar 5, 2009 | 06:07 PM

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TBH i've used AVG for 3 years and not been bit once and i download alot of stuff.

Just to doubD t myself i installed NOon my laptop i use alot after AVG and it didn't find any. So avg is doing its job it would seem.

But end of the day it all depends down to the user if there stupid enough to click on a suss file or site there gonna get problems.

Mar 5, 2009 | 09:48 PM

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I use avast pro never had any issues with it

Mar 7, 2009 | 09:41 AM

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Kaspersky, 24.99 for 3 user licence at PC world

(full internet security suite, anti spam, popup blocker, anti virus, firewall etc etc etc)
Oh and i changed from mcafee to kaspersky and have not looked back over the last 3 years

much nicer to use too

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Mar 7, 2009 | 10:39 AM

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Used to use kaspersky, but the later versions went a bit bloaty which posed an issue for our Pentium 3 office/workshop computers.

Current version Nod32 AV is still a very small and efficient AV, as such it it runs very well on old decrepit computers.

Nod32 smart security does use more overhead though due to its firewall and spam filtering.

Mar 11, 2009 | 10:00 AM

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Kaspersky, 24.99 for 3 user licence at PC world

(full internet security suite, anti spam, popup blocker, anti virus, firewall etc etc etc)
Oh and i changed from mcafee to kaspersky and have not looked back over the last 3 years

much nicer to use too

Tony

Thanks Tony, you don't have a link for that do you as i've looked on the website and can not find that deal but then it may already have expired.

Mar 11, 2009 | 10:44 AM

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Various bits of software have told me that I have lots of bugs in the Registry but after scanning with Norton, Spybot and Malware they seem not to be cleared. I tried Ad-Aware but this froze things up. Which of the ones mentioned above might help please? dl

Mar 11, 2009 | 10:53 AM

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David ad-aware is good but Microsoft now have their own free one called Windows Defender. It's built in to Vista but can be downloaded for XP and I used it when it first came out and replaced ad-aware with it.

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Mar 11, 2009 | 11:00 AM

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OK - Big thanks for that. I downloaded something called STOPzilla (see post at bottom of page or on page 2 now) but wasn't overwhelmed with comments

david

Mar 11, 2009 | 03:48 PM

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CC Cleaner has a good function for tidying up your registry.

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I have been using it for a few years without issue and regularly clean out the registry.

You probably have a load of redundant keys in the registry clogging it up and slowing your machine down.

Make sure that you do a registry back up before starting (CC should prompt you to) - just in case.

Mar 11, 2009 | 04:01 PM

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ESNET is very good indeed and was suggested to me by several IT professionals. Small system footprint and does everything you need.

Do not get Norton - utter system hog!

I have to agree with this.

I'm an IT professional and have sworn by Mcaffee for years but I've recently taken our company away from it in favour of ESET /NOD32 and I have to say its excellent. We have over 150 users and not one of them has complained and we've had no problems reported since its install 5 weeks ago

McAffee just clogs everything up and makes it all over complicated. ESET is pretty much an install and forget solution.

Highly recommend it.

Mar 11, 2009 | 05:07 PM

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Dell pointed me in the direction of this and it's very good indeed. Mucking around in the registry is very intimidating for a technical ludite like me, but this just takes care of at all for you and cleans out any of the other crap you may have accumulated.

Ns04

Mar 11, 2009 | 05:23 PM

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Having had to deal with tons of companies and their various requirements in terms of AV, then the current winner is NOD32. We use it in our company with the server version which is very good and have used the NOD32 for desktops as well. Nice small footprint and not process hungry unlike the ****e that is Norton etc.

The other contender is Trend Micro which do both server and client versions

On our macs....well nothing

Mar 11, 2009 | 10:02 PM

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I'm an IT professional and have sworn at Mcaffee for years

That's more my experience of McCrappy, I mean McAfee. We have to use it at work, but it's a resource hungry glitch fest. We currently have an issue where everytime it downloads updates it leaves around 80MB of temp files behind on the system disk, that's 500-600MB a week that has to be removed from hundreds of servers. Fortunately the patch is being installed this weekend.

Oh, forgot to mention that at home I've been using Kaspersky, it's kept the wife's laptop free from nasties for over a year, which is a record that Norton, AVG and Mcafee have got nowhere near to equalling in the past.

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