Virus Protection
 

I have Norton virus protection on my dell laptop, and it's crap. I remember reading about a good free virus checker on here a while back, but can't find the thread.
Anyone recommend any good freebies? Something on my laptop keeps on turning off the norton phishing filter :nono:

Avast avast! - Download antivirus software for spyware and virus protection
Nod32 is highly recommended if you want to pay.

I use AVG Free Edition, it does the job and as the name
say's it's free:)

http://free.avg.com/

Kaspersky or NOD32 (though I have never used NOD myself it seems to get good reviews) and really, i would keep away from the "free" av software.

Tony:)

Another vote for avast and if you have to pay for anti-virus your paying too much lol

I use AVG and it works, the same is used by the MOD police. Its free for personal use:thumb:

my mates use avg i can give you something so that the avg wont expire for as long as you have your laptop

i personally use mcafee

i wouldnt change it for the world i paid something like £50

i am a network engineer and i think its one of the best if not the best anti virus software out there

Hi Agent.x, could you pm me more info on running avg long term. Also, I started another thread on here about getting into I.T as a career - how did you get into network engineering? Thanks in anticipation!

i will get back to you tomorrow with all the details

pm me your email address and i will email you

^^^^^^what he said^^^^^ would avoid running avg for any length of time let alone long term:)

Nod or kaspersky, i run kaspersky internet suite 2009, tenner new from ebay if you look around. ;)

I use kaspersky, they usually give you it for next to nothing once your registered? I know I got internet security for 3 PC's for £15 from them electronically when I took my time to re-register :)

Kapersky again,yeah that Norton really is a pile of ****e..

Yep Kasp or nod32 i have always used nod32.

Just dug this one out again. So the general idea is NOD 32 then?
Any ideas how to remove the fekkin Snorton Antivirus first?

Reinstall Windows :) No seriously just do some googling for removal methods.

Kasp or Avast.... Avast is very good and sits in very little memory but wil monitor everything. AVG is ****e, don't waste your time with it, I found it hogged system resources like you wouldn't believe.

Kaps is one of the best on the market, you can ge the CD from Tesco for £20 with three licenses, well worth it.

Nortons is a b***** to remove completly...re-install windows....In the IT trade and most of the people I know in the trade use AVG.....we all subscribe, not the free version. Supliment it with Spybot and adaware....all good pieces of kit.

AVG is not good software. Even with the latest, fully up to date version installed, it lets things through (I have had to try to recover numerous infected machines that have had it installed). It consistently ranks low in the various independent tests, and I've yet to meet an I.T. professional that will recommend it. In fact in my place of work, it's a disciplinary offence to even install it!!

I agree. I have had to disinfect a number of computers with AVG. Very bloaty and resource hungry software as well when compared to nod32. So I don't rate it at all.

Can't really comment on Kaspersky as I have no recent experience, as we switched to nod32 a few years back. We used to have kaspersky, but the later versions appeared to be getting more bloaty and resource hungry.

We still run three Pentium III machines with 384meg RAM and a Celeron-D with 256Meg RAM, of which all run nod32 AV quite happily. I don't think there is any other AV on the market that will run satisfactorily on these machines without grinding them to a halt.

As above Norton is awful and to remove it completely you need to download a removal tool from Norton's website. You should do this before trying to install anything else.

I use the internet security suite from Eset (the makers of NOD32)

http://www.eset.co.uk/promotions/sma...FYiD3gode3tbSA

Very small system footprint, does all one can reasonably ask. Costs, but you get what you pay for. Most IT professionals I know use it.

Ns04