I'm with virgin media and they are changing their free internet security software from Trend Micro to F Secure internet security they are providing 12 months free then after 12 months it will cost £49.95 for upto 3 machines.

 

Just wondered if anyone on the forums had any experience of F Secure and their security packages, The Trend Micro security that Virgin was using is not compatible with Windows 8 so they have had no option but to change it.

 

Personally I have never heard of F Secure but also thinking if its £50 and they are providing it for free for 12 months then it must be half decent, Just wondered what the opinions are of the Briskodians out there.

F secure has been around a long time but £50 is expensive.

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just use freebie then go avast or avg ?

I got the 3 licence version of Kaspersky Internet Security from Amazon for about £12.

MSE, MBam and Windows Defender, all free and zero infections here. I used to be a big advocate of Kaspersky but ditched them a couple of years ago.

Comodo or Avast you can't go wrong.

Kaspersky has managed to cope with my mother in law's approach to web browsing which is pretty good going.

 

Her Nexus 7 tablet lasted less than a week before becoming infected with something that rendered it unusable.

I paid less than £30 (£26 IIRC) for 3 device copy of Norton 360.  Their internet security version is £15, and thats before using a cashback site.

 I used to be a big advocate of Kaspersky but ditched them a couple of years ago.

 

What made you ditch them - I have heard that the new Kaspersky and Norton take quite a bit of computer resources which is never a good thing.

What made you ditch them - I have heard that the new Kaspersky and Norton take quite a bit of computer resources which is never a good thing.

answered ^ Especially Norton :wonder:

answered ^ Especially Norton :wonder:

 

Norton is terrible, well was haven't used it in years. Used to grind a decent PC to a stand still.

Norton is terrible, well was haven't used it in years. Used to grind a decent PC to a stand still.

it's all the **** they add on that nobody needs and runs at startup :(

Norton is terrible, well was haven't used it in years. Used to grind a decent PC to a stand still.

Years ago, yes.

 

Testing a few of the trial versions Norton was about the same resource wise in normal protection running and running a scan.  McAfee which I used to favour, slowed everything down full stop.

 

Obviously running the 'extra' functions will kill resources as by nature they are resource hungry (deep registry scan/repair, defrag, back ups, cloud backups etc)

Years ago, yes.

 

Testing a few of the trial versions Norton was about the same resource wise in normal protection running and running a scan.  McAfee which I used to favour, slowed everything down full stop.

 

Obviously running the 'extra' functions will kill resources as by nature they are resource hungry (deep registry scan/repair, defrag, back ups, cloud backups etc)

there was a great article about John McAfee on the BBC site the other week; what a rogue

Years ago, yes.

 

Testing a few of the trial versions Norton was about the same resource wise in normal protection running and running a scan.  McAfee which I used to favour, slowed everything down full stop.

 

Obviously running the 'extra' functions will kill resources as by nature they are resource hungry (deep registry scan/repair, defrag, back ups, cloud backups etc)

 

So are you saying Norton have improved? I imagine it'll take time for the 'label' to shift though, a bit like another 'company'...

So are you saying Norton have improved? I imagine it'll take time for the 'label' to shift though, a bit like another 'company'...

Been running Norton for 2 years now.

 

Previously I last used it in my 1st year of an XP machine (back when XP was new and the computer came with it loaded).  It ran like ****e