I've been using Norton for the last few years and it's time for renewal. Just looking for ideas of what's best for anti virus and firewall software.

 

Cheers

 

Vijay

Trend micro (PC Cillin is the home user version) the corporate stuff is great and catches loads of stuff that Norton used to miss. Just started using it at home. The only drawback is that there is a yearly subscription to pay.

goto http://www.grisoft.com

Download AVG free

I actually paid for Norton and stil have some subscription left but have binned it for AVG Free :)

Its a smaller memory footprint and works perfectly :) and its FREE

Although I'm still using Norton, I've also got AVG on disc, might go back to using it. But then I don't have a problem with Norton, Anti-Virus anyway, as for the FireWall it was crap, wouldn't let me use MSN Messenger, so I binned it in favour of McAfee Plus.

goto http://www.grisoft.com

Download AVG free

I actually paid for Norton and stil have some subscription left but have binned it for AVG Free :)

Its a smaller memory footprint and works perfectly :) and its FREE

 

I have both Jay,the Norton was finding a Virus that the AVG was not picking up.not the first time this has happened either and yes both are always updated.

So for me its a definite thumbs DOWN for AVG.

Dont use your AVG from disk. Go to the website and download the latest version. It has been completely redisgned, and the free updates (which can be scheduled) are available every couple of days - so you are always up to date.

 

I have a friend who is having troubles with viruses even though he was subscribed to Macafee for paid updates.

 

I installed avg for him and the first virus scan found 34 critical files and over a hundred warnings.....

 

Free is not always the worst! I'd stick with AVG.

ok - so I have not tested it against Nortons, which might well be the best... but have you tested it against the latest version of AVG? I think it has only been available for 4-5 weeks, and looks completely different.

Dont use your AVG from disk. Go to the website and download the latest version.

I did as the old version expired a few weeks ago.

ive only had AVG for a couple of weeks, its the best one ive used IMHO of course and its FREE :D

My answer of course is "it depends", but assuming that you have some sort of firewall on your ADSL router (or whatever) then I would say the free Zonealarm for firewall and free AVG for anti-virus.

 

The reason that certain firewalls block MSN is that you need to enable the UPNP service.

Mac1, what virus did it not pick up? I have Mcafee on disk I scanned with, and Norton, obviously none of them picked up any viruses that the other did not - prob coz I dont have any viruses. Be interesting to see if new AVG is missing a virus though.

I use AVG on one, and Sophos on the others....

You can trial Sophos with the full upto date product from their website

 

Only ever had one virus, which Sophos picked up the other day, even though I hadnt updated it for over 4 months! I updated Spohos after that though

 

 

Steve

Mac1, what virus did it not pick up? I have Mcafee on disk I scanned with, and Norton, obviously none of them picked up any viruses that the other did not - prob coz I dont have any viruses. Be interesting to see if new AVG is missing a virus though.

 

I can't remember J,I had soft ware problems and had to format the drive so I don't have a record of it.

AVG and norton use basically the same virus depositaries. your computer never ws known for being normal mac ;)

I ditched Norton after I knew I had a virus. I sent the file to Norton and they told me they knew about that virus and the definition would be released with its next update, 4 weeks away.

 

I changed to AVG which found it straight away and cleaned it.

I also get updated almost every day with AVG, sometimes twice a day. It keeps you up to date, and instead of downloading 500k of updates which some modems may take a while (Dialup) you get 10k or less updates with major ones only every month or so.

 

Dont mistaken spyware with virus. I know some virus checkers report certain spyware as viruses, so it looks like that virus checker is finding a virus which others done, when in fact it has not found a virus at all.

OK so some say Norton is good, some say AVG is good, and I don't doubt either. But would it be OK to have both running on the same PC at the same time? I don't mean run two virus scans at the same time, I mean have them 'Running' at the same time. That way you could have the best of both worlds ;) Just a thought :D

it would work, but the general performance would be greatly affected.

OK so some say Norton is good, some say AVG is good, and I don't doubt either. But would it be OK to have both running on the same PC at the same time? I don't mean run two virus scans at the same time, I mean have them 'Running' at the same time. That way you could have the best of both worlds ;) Just a thought :D

I have that set up Dave.

Thanks guys, sounds like a plan then :D I'll have a look at the new AVG this afternoon.

had the bro-in-law round...he works at Cisco as an engineer...set me up with linksys broadband router & firewall......(£48 and does wireless)..did loads of port scans...shut them down changed all sorts of ip values etc...they get advice on all the usual tricks hackers use and counter them with some fairly simple changes to ports and addresses..thing is bullet proof now...norton is reduced to just scanning email...said they was testing a new anti-virus which will be free to personal users which avoids the problems with the popular anti v progs...link will be issued shortly i'll post it up once i got it