Hi folks, im looking to buy some internet security, im running mc afee at the min but not impressed with it.

Any recommendations on what to get and where to get it from?

Any advice is appreciated, thanks, e

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I had Macafee once, never, ever again! It wouldn't let me uninstall it either. Norton isn't much better either.

I had Macafee once, never, ever again! It wouldn't let me uninstall it either. Norton isn't much better either.

Norton is much better than it was.

I've moved from Mcafee after many years to Norton and it's much quicker and better than McAfee has become.

I have used Kaspersky for quite a while, even my mother in law managed to install it and use it without a problem. Mind you I recently install MS Security Essentials on a friends laptop and it seems pretty good.

MSE is free, Windows Firewall is Free and Malware bytes is free.

Job done.

Agreed! Pretty stupid these days if you pay for virus software.

AVAST, SPYBOT, MALWAREBYTES and ZONEALARM for me, and not a penny spent.

Also NOSCRIPT, ADBLOCK PLUS and FOXFLAGS for my FireFox install

I use Avast for the AV and Comodo for my firewall on my Windows 7 machine.

Both are free.

Cheers

Dave.

Edited 20 October, 201114 yr by WaveyDavey

Agreed! Pretty stupid these days if you pay for virus software.

Experience says free stuff doesnt always cut the mustard, and DAT files arent always updated to new risks as fast as the paid stuff.

Most paid stuff will check for DATs hourly, whilst most free stuff might only check daily.

MSE is free, Windows Firewall is Free and Malware bytes is free.

Job done.

And if you've got win 7 you've also got Defender .

Used to have Norton years ago but ditched it as it slowed things up ,an as said it needed a format to uninstall it. Did try Norton free for a year as a bank freeby and it seemed to be better .Ditched it when Norton wanted a fee for year two .

McAfee home stuff is crap, it's like bloatware... the enterprise stuff I've dealt with is pretty good though. And Norton... no chance.

I would recommend shelling out a few quid for ESET NOD. Really really worth the money. Updates are very regular, and it uses hardly any system resources. It stops pretty much everything as well, does a good job against blended threat malware and nasty JAR applets that sneak through pop-unders etc.

I use Kaspersky, both daughters have it on their laptops, all free ( 3 computers ) Barclays customers get it for free, no problems and no pop ups, auto update, I use firefox as well saver than windows explorer

Spybot search and destroy is another free programme, to search and immunise against threats

AVG free version on Mrs Phosphoric's laptop running Vista. I've used AVG for years with never a problem.

However, a better solution is to switch to Linux. I use Ubuntu at the moment. It's so boring. Switch on, 23 seconds later use it, then turn off in 5 seconds. No antivirus, no disc defragging, totally boring. :yes:

MSE for me, used to use AVG but it got a bit bloated.

MSE is enough for 99.9% of home users.

Again, this thread is full of a lot of non-information.

Particularly this... how do you mean Linux is "boring" because it has no disk defragging or antivirus?

However, a better solution is to switch to Linux. I use Ubuntu at the moment. It's so boring. Switch on, 23 seconds later use it, then turn off in 5 seconds. No antivirus, no disc defragging, totally boring. :yes:

Thumbs up for MSE. On my old Windows box I found Avast & AVG had become too resource heavy.

On the subject of free thumbs up too for Linux (I'm using Mint) for being free & secure. I have XP & 7 running within Linux on Virtualbox & use MSE there also to protect as they can still get infected. There is a lot of good free software out there & as a result I resort to my old Windows programs less & less.

If you dig into the code, you will find AVG and ESET run on the same basic engine; just because something is free does not mean it is not good. The last time I checked AIR is free (you know, the stuff we breathe??).

No program, even Kapersky, is 100% effective (actually Malwarebytes is the best),, and neither is running Linux a solution, there are viri and malware out there for it, same as there is for OSX; it is just fewer people are affected, so they are not so high profile; there are even infections doing the rounds that target smart phones, they started on the iPhone and now versions are appearing for Android handsets.

I used to use AVG and found it very good, but I had a lot of problems with the ver 8 update on Win7 machines and after months of glitches and constantly failing updates I switched to AVAST. By default AVAST runs in paranoid mode, but you can reduce the overhead by tweaking a few settings; do this and the system speeds up noticeably. The only real problem with AVAST is the loud, annoying voice update alert,

My wifes PC was recently rootkitted despite running ESET NOD32; because our computers are connected wirelessly the rootkit also tried to install itself on my netbook; by having several layers of defence, all it managed to do was crash the netbook, alerting me to the problem.

My big problem then was, all my pc software tools are in the UK, the GFWoC blocks most of the websites that download them, and the copies I was given by a friend were all in Chinese!!!

Once I managed to get the tools I needed (2 days), it took under an hour to fix my netbook, the wifes will take longer due to the language problem, the rootkit is still in place, but neutered, and all of its ancillary viri and malware loads have been deleted, including a hidden data stream used to update it.

The moral of this story?? There are actually 2.

1/ There is no such thing as "too much" protection,

2/ Never fail to take your back up recovery tools with you when going to China for 6 months!!!

MSE is free, Windows Firewall is Free and Malware bytes is free.

Job done.

Indeed. IME Norton has improved but still bloatware. Stopped using McAfee at work- it's bloatware again. At home, just use the above. No need for anything more and your PC will run better for it.

Again, this thread is full of a lot of non-information.

Particularly this... how do you mean Linux is "boring" because it has no disk defragging or antivirus?

Oh dear! You missed the joke. :S

Oh yes forgot I had Malwarebytes as well

No program, even Kapersky, is 100% effective (actually Malwarebytes is the best),, and neither is running Linux a solution, there are viri and malware out there for it, same as there is for OSX; it is just fewer people are affected, so they are not so high profile; there are even infections doing the rounds that target smart phones, they started on the iPhone and now versions are appearing for Android handsets.

I'm bit of a Linux noob but isn't it the case that it's very difficult to execute a virus/malware file in a Linux environment unless the user is really determined to run a suspicious file? Linux may be in a small percentage of desktop PC's but it's huge elsewhere - 80% plus of the internet is run on linux web-servers, Google & Youtube run on Linux. Android is Linux based & from what I can gather virii are malicous apps folk are choosing to install not realising what they are letting themselves in for?

I'm bit of a Linux noob but isn't it the case that it's very difficult to execute a virus/malware file in a Linux environment unless the user is really determined to run a suspicious file? Linux may be in a small percentage of desktop PC's but it's huge elsewhere - 80% plus of the internet is run on linux web-servers, Google & Youtube run on Linux. Android is Linux based & from what I can gather virii are malicous apps folk are choosing to install not realising what they are letting themselves in for?

Linux's biggest issue is superuser rights, and this is the main attack method being used on Android where there are over 500 malware and viri out there right now.

Linux's biggest issue is superuser rights, and this is the main attack method being used on Android where there are over 500 malware and viri out there right now.

Isn't that pretty much unique to Android, rather than Linux overall - much like Windows?