Antivirus Software - Recommendations?

[Snoop Doug]

My new laptop came preloaded with McAfee. Is it any good? Seems to be so far I haven't caught internet lurgy. It's only valid until mid October then I either have to pay or bugger orf. So - anyone got any experience of others versus this one they'd care to share?

I had Norton on my old laptop and that seemed to be very heavy going, maybe that's the price you pay for protection, innit?

Cheers - Snoop

[Rob Q]

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[Snoop Doug]

Thx Rob, what happens if it gets a hole in it tho..?

Also - McAfee are "offering" to extend by a year for £35 which doesn't seem too bad...does it? They reckon that's £15 off usual, and of course I have all day to think about that, grrrrr, don't rush me ya money grabbin gets

[higg]

It is annoying, it's no more than a modern day protection racket and it's legal.

You're bank might arrange a discounted package if you do online banking, Barclays give a voucher for Kaspersky for free. Your service provider might also give a discount.

[Dombo]

I use Norton. Seems ok.

[George]

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This one's Doozie

[Snoop Doug]

Yeah all right George

I did think aboot it, but in the end all my files, email stuff etc would have needed at least converting plus buying all new mac software and I just couldn't make it work. Hey ho, maybe another day eh?

Snoop

[Wal]

After 2 years using AVG Free with no problems an update caused BSOD on my Acer laptop. A quick Google revealed lots of problems with AVG (both free and pay versions) on certain PCs, particularly Dells; seems it doesn't like some of the proprietary software they come installed with.

Now using Avast antivirus with a Comodo firewall and haven't had any problems.

[Snoop Doug]

BSOD? Comeonineedtoknowwhatthatmeans please

[Alex S]

surrey uni doesnt let you connect to their internet unless you have an antivirus AND an antispyware from this list:

Acceptable Anti-Virus Software for Windows
McAfee AntiVirus Enterprise
Grisoft AVG 8.0 (free download)
Avast 4.0 and later (Free download)
Avira AntiVir 7.0 and later
Eset NOD32
F-Prot
F-Secure
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 5.0 and later
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009
McAfee AntiVirus Home
Norman Security
Norton (Home)
Norton 360
Panda
Sophos
Symantec-Corporate
Trend-Micro Home 8.0
Trend Micro AntiVirus 2007/2008
Trend-Micro Internet Security 2008

Acceptable Anti-Spyware Software for Windows
Windows Defender (Built-into Vista, free for XP)
Spybot Search & Destroy (Free)
Ad-Aware 2007/2008 (Free)

Acceptable Anti-Virus Software for Macintosh
McAfee-Virex
McAfee VirusScan for Macintosh
Norton
Sophos

[Andrew G]

[quote="Snoop Doug"]BSOD? Comeonineedtoknowwhatthatmeans please