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Virus Scanner
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I was just wondering if any of you had a reccommendation for a good virus scanner/firewall. At the moment im using Mcafee, just wondering if there were any better ones on the market with a sensible price range 
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Esset NOD32 for anti V. See if you can get a demo ....:yes:
Zonealarm firewll - free, just zonealarm.com i think
Avira antivirus - free, google it
A squared - anti spyware - free
Spybot Search and Destroy - free
Sygate personal firewall - free
You have to buy the following antivirus progs though
Panda
Kaspersky
To be honest, i did away with paying for them years ago and just use free ones now. Touch wood, running ok!
by the way i'd recommend AVG i've heard its really good for viruses and firewall :banghead: .
Cya around:yippe:
yeah im using free AVG and its awesome. doesnt mess up your computer like mcafee.
If you have a paticularly mid-range PC it can slow it down to an absoloute crawl. same as norton.
Plus it's pop-ups are flipping annoying. same as norton.
Windows firewall
Windows defender
All free, never had a virus
I used to work on an e-banking team and i maintain and run a lot of computers for different people, ranging from your very beginners to people who are quite mastering stuff on computers now and i install the same programmes for them all...the reason for this is a) price (zero) and b) ease of use.
AVG is covered by both bases. Quality.
Windows defender isn't bad as mentioned. Did my head in though, so i removed it.
I equally agree that Norton is head doing - it can be quite frustrating actually. Not worth paying for - if it comes free with broadband / pc etc, then maybe use it until subscription expires, other than that - it's not worth your hard earned cash!
AVG all the way!
Various editions of Norton - Relatively good virus defence and firewall, but a couple of viruses got through sometimes. But hogs a lot of resources from your computer, it's generally extremely slow. I wouldn't pick it again.
Has a pretty good firewall tho.
Norman antivirus - Not as slow as Norton, but too many threats got through. Didn't like the firewall
F-Secure: Used to be good, but virus defence not so good anymore. Used to be very lightweigh, but the newest version does unfortunately hog more resources, although not as bad as Norton did. The version I tried didn't come with a firewall
Avast free edition: Doesn't hog too much, haven't gotten any viruses when using it.
Eses nod32
This is the best commercial product by my opinion, and the one I'm using now. Very good virus defence. The smart security package also has a firewall. Not sure if it's the most secure, but it has an "automatic" mode that seems to be working quite well. Most apps that needs to get online does so without any trouble, and also without nagging you for acception all the time.
About dedicated firewalls, I've tried zonealarm, found that ok. The windows firewall is usually ok for most people though.
http://www.personalfirewall.comodo.com/overview.html
I've got the public beta 2.5 running on a laptop and its alot faster than McaFee
Yeah, tried the online version of it. Many say it's sheit, but it was able to remove my spyware when everything else failed.