anti virus?

Question

norton, avg, mcafee? whats the best one to go for? am running avg free at the mo. also have cover from broadband supplier. not 100% about the supplied one as it has let us down in the past. also have a couple of viruses in the avg vault and not sure what to do ? any ideas.

Answer 1

avg its the best http://free.grisoft.com/doc/5390/lng/us/tpl/v5#avg-anti-virus-free

Answer 2

Hi there,

Some of the most recommended programs on here always seem to be AVG or Avast - although this is likely to be because they are free? Looking at current protection ratings, AVG scores a lowly 90% protection against all known viruses, whilst Avast comes in at 92%. This means they are letting through one in every ten viruses - pretty shocking.

The same goes for Spybot and Adaware. In fact if you had AVG, Spybot and Adaware installed, you would surprisingly only be protected from circa 60% of all known malware (viruses, adware, spyware, trojans, etc).

Norton and McAfee are the "best known" security products, which are currently protecting against something like 98.3% and 97% of all known viruses - a much better score. However, both of these are known for being very heavy programs which can tend to slow down certain machines. If you are thinking of installing either of these I would definitely recommend you download their free trial to check it does not affect your machine in this way prior to opening your wallet.

If you would be interested in other Security products that are better than all of these, you should try either Prevx1, Kaspersky or F-Secure who all score over a 99% protection rating.

Answer 3

Hello,

Frankly, I've tried almost ALL the well known commercial home anti virus programs over the years. i.e. McAfree, Norton,AntiVir,etc,etc.

I had a dreadful time with Symantec's Norton AV 2002, & what really was the straw that broke the camels back was the sheer rip off insult of being charged & extra £12 fee because I wanted to pay for the annuel AV subscription updates by debit card and NOT cred card.

**Plus when I decided to remove the program I had a horrendous time i.e. I couldnt uninstall it. Eventually I had to go to symantecs website to download a special tool before I could remove the program, horrendous!! What a pain & how user unfriendly is that?

**AVG Free 7.5 anti virus is definately one of the best free anti virus programs you download & install & use. (it was highly rated by Jack Schofield in the Guardian newspaper technology section recently) frankly its miles better on a numerous fronts by contrast to norton's offering.

**user freindly interface.
**Daily free updates
**free version updates (no upgrade fee's either)
**Inbound & outbound email scanner
**Quarentine virus vault
**memory resident scanner (saved my bacon many times)
**Accurate & reliable virus or infection detection
**Safe removal of infections.
**Scheduler x1 free scan using this feature (but can be enabled via command line scanner & 3rd party shedulers)

Finally, if you have ANY Infections caute by the program and they have been safely placed in the virus vault. You can quite safely open the virus vault and just delete the offending item.

Hope that helps?

IR

Answer 4

Hey dont worry ur computer will be free if u download norten or a symentic antivirus. It is very effective. Just load an updated or a new one.

As soon as u load an antivirus scan it and enable the auto detect mode. Good LUck.

Answer 5

Every one is different from the next. AVG is excellent. You do have a firewall, don't you? If not, get one pdq!
Have a look at http://www.filehippo.com/ for various free downloads, or pcworld.com.
What I would advise, before you try any downloads, is create a restore point!

Answer 6

avg is gd and as for removing viruses from the vault then just delete em

Answer 7

I'm currently using windows live one care its a firewall anti-virus, anti-spyware and a phishing filter with full support its a trial version its easy to use and works well. Have had it on my computer for two months and have had no problems

Answer 8

hello

why do you want a change from avg? is one of the best free antivirus software

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm#2

Answer 9

I have used the free virsion of Avast for the last few years and really like it. I also use Trend Micro's housecall every other month or so, just in case.

http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Don't forget a firewall...

http://www.firewallguide.com/freeware.htm

Answer 10

Avira Antivirus is the best, as good as northon or better according to the Dutch consumer union!

www.free-av.com

Answer 11

for best security be sure you have a firewall and an anti-spyware as weel, not only the antivirus.
To get these, free for personal use, and one of the best available on the web go here
http://freewww.uv.ro/security/security.html