Should I just renew at £39.99 or change.
Norton is at £29.99 at PCWorld. Any good?
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Anti virus/firewall software recommendations please? McAfee free trial expiring.
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Posted 5 months ago #
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/products/security-essentials
Why do anything else.
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Have you considered Microsoft Security Essentials (free download from MS)?
Nothing wrong with using it and the Windows firewall - assuming that we're talking about a PC running a relatively recent version of Windows.
EDIT: Too slow...
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Should I just renew at £39.99 or change.
Norton is at £29.99 at PCWorld. Any good?As above just use MSE, paying for anything is daft, paying for Norton is insane, its a massive resource hog......
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MSE. I love these threads as it is the only thing that the whole of STW agrees on
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MSE again here.
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MSE
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Against the grain here, but Avast works well enough. Not used MSE but will look into it. I mean, all the above can't be wrong...
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Have used F-Secure for years.
One word - invisible.Posted 5 months ago # -
Again, MSE. Just make sure to remove McAfee first.
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Dare I say.....MSE???
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MSE. End of.
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If you want McAfee, get it from Amazon or somewhere else MUCH cheaper. Given that Microsoft can't make a bug-free operating system, can't make a decent browser and have historically been the target fo most all virus activity, I'm happy to pay a few quid to someone else for my security. I can't believe so many people would just take Microsoft at face value.
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. I can't believe so many people would just take Microsoft at face value.
I suspect you will find that there are a good number of people here who have used many products over the years and have ended up with MSE by experience (and maybe even reading the occasional virus bulletins report). For folks that don't like MS then avast is good.
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avast on 2 machines, mse on 2 machines... both excellent..
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Surf bareback - much more invigorating
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. I can't believe so many people would just take Microsoft at face value.
I can't believe some people still have a bias against MS, given all the bugs and glitches the alternatives have. Sure, they're not perfect, but having a PC running the much-maligned Vista64, and a MacBook Air running Lion, I can safely say that the MBA has had more crashes than the ageing PC. Funnily enough, the only s/w the PC seems to repeatedly have a wobbly with is iTunes, which has to be the most hateful bit of software ever 'written'...
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MSE is a good lightweight virus program, if you want a few more bells and whistles (ie a decent firewall and addblocker) I would go with kaspersky. Wouldn't touch norton or macafee with a bargepole.
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I can't believe some people still have a bias against MS, given all the bugs and glitches the alternatives have.
Having spent several years working in software testing I'm dismayed at the levels of bugs etc that the public are prepared to accept in all software. It isn't accepted in any other product we buy.
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Might be worth mentioning that a few weeks ago there was a virus on this site in one of the numerous ads. My AVG 2012 caught it but I believe a number of users with MSE were not so lucky.
Or I may have the wrong end of the stick altogether.
I use MSE on the netbook and AVG 2012 on the laptop - happy with both.
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MSE for me and a weekly scan with Malwarebytes.
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Might be worth mentioning that a few weeks ago there was a virus on this site in one of the numerous ads. My AVG 2012 caught it but I believe a number of users with MSE were not so lucky.
Whichever AV you use you'll get situations like that. MSE wins for me primarily because it's the least intrusive the 99.99999% of the time when I haven't got a virus.
I can't believe so many people would just take Microsoft at face value
From a security perspective that was probably a reasonable view 10 years ago but not now. For those who still think like that Ubuntu is your friend, just don't expect most of your software to work on it.
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