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Jon Ison - 12/8/09 at 07:27 PM

The best free option for pc protection or is there better out there ?

mookaloid - 12/8/09 at 07:29 PM

Avast

lotusmadandy - 12/8/09 at 07:31 PM

I use AVG free version 8 and it is great.
I have used mcafee and norton and neither were as good.
But thats just my opinion.

Andy

bj928 - 12/8/09 at 07:31 PM

its all me and all my friends use, never had any trouble, its great, if a friend get a computer with norton on, i uninstall and put free avg on

Jon Ison - 12/8/09 at 07:32 PM

I have used mcafee and norton also and been far from impressed, they seem to slow and block all the things i want to do to.

philw - 12/8/09 at 07:38 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Jon Ison
I have used mcafee and norton also and been far from impressed, they seem to slow and block all the things i want to do to.


Same here, having said that i have just binned AVG in favour of Avast because AVG seemed to slow my pc down quite alot.

Dan. - 12/8/09 at 07:38 PM

Another vote for Avast here, AVG isnt bad but avast is better imo

balidey - 12/8/09 at 07:40 PM

I used to use AVG, but the best option is to move over to Linux, no one writes viruses for that OS, and if they do then the anti-virus software is all free anyway

RichardK - 12/8/09 at 07:43 PM

avg is great if the pc is half decent, otherwise avast is less resource hungry. Both good products though.

Rich

Fozzie - 12/8/09 at 08:23 PM

Avast here....I put it on all my 'puters....

Fozzie

gingerprince - 12/8/09 at 08:55 PM

Definately Avast. AVG got too bloaty.

Hellfire - 12/8/09 at 09:43 PM

Had AVG - upgraded when I had to, too CPU intensive and slow...

AVAST is better!

Steve

Surrey Dave - 12/8/09 at 11:04 PM

Could be wrong but I believe Avast can detect rootkits, AVG can't , AVG also slowed my compo toooo much.

Staple balls - 13/8/09 at 05:06 AM

Avast for free, AVG have remarkable ability to bugger up and kill useful files.

But personally I swear by nod32, it's not free, but it's very good and £30-odd quid a year isn't a steep price to pay to keep stuff safe.

designer - 13/8/09 at 05:36 AM

Avast without a doubt

britishtrident - 13/8/09 at 06:52 AM

Avira ---- latest paid for versions give a very high level of protection. Unlike some of the others mentioned it looks and feels like a pro level tool.

I have been using, installing and recommending it for many years.

Only fault with the free version is the update server is very slow and sometimes times out.

bimbleuk - 13/8/09 at 10:40 AM

AVGFree not as good as it used to be so I don't recommaned that anymore. I'm using Kaspersky as its free with Barclays online banking. You can get licenses as cheap as £15 if you look for an OEM version.

britishtrident - 13/8/09 at 02:54 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Surrey Dave
Could be wrong but I believe Avast can detect rootkits, AVG can't , AVG also slowed my compo toooo much.


Just about no software can guarantee to detect a rootkit, the better av programs will pick up a root kit trying to install itself but it is a checken and egg situation the av software has to be installed on a clean machine.

[Edited on 13/8/09 by britishtrident]

Liam - 13/8/09 at 04:25 PM

I had a rootkit infection once, that rather than Avast detecting and removing, it was totally disabled by. Took a bit of getting rid of that one! Still stick with Avast though. Swapped over from AVG years ago when that started crashing all the time, even on fresh windows installs.

Plus pirate phrases are cool.

Liam