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1. don simon - Member

   Sick to death of sh1te mcafee antivirus leaving me unprotected, so which is the best free AV. Avast or AVG?

   Thanks

   Posted 2 years ago #
2. clubber - Member

   Both work well. I use AVG (no real reason over Avast, just the one I tried first and it does the job well).

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. spooky_b329 - Member

   Avast here. Same but opposite reasons as clubber Very unobtrusive as well, litte notification its updated itself every week or so, and a small momentary splash screen when I start outlook.

   Posted 2 years ago #
4. retro83 - Member

   avast

   avg badly slows down opening word documents for me (adds 10 seconds of 100% cpu usage opening a simple word doc!)

   Posted 2 years ago #
5. simon_g - Member

   Microsoft Security Essentials. Free for anyone on genuine XP, Vista or 7 and very good.

   Posted 2 years ago #
6. clubber - Member

   retro83 - interesting - I don't get that...

   Posted 2 years ago #
7. Drac - Moderator

   Avast, I switched from AVG a few years ago as AVG was slow but may be improved since then.

   Posted 2 years ago #
8. retro83 - Member

   retro83 - interesting - I don't get that...

   Maybe it's fixed, could have been a glitch in the defs at the time I installed it.

   Word 2003 SP3 btw

   Posted 2 years ago #
9. neilsonwheels - Member

   Comodo do anti virus and firewall.

   Posted 2 years ago #
10. GrahamS - Member

    Avast here too.

    Updates every day and is generally unobtrusive.

    Posted 2 years ago #
11. grumm - Member

    It's really worth paying a bit extra and getting Norton.

    Posted 2 years ago #
12. Coyote - Member

    No grumm, no it's not.

    Posted 2 years ago #
13. feenster - Member

    No need to pay for antivirus.

    +1 for Microsoft Security Essentials, been getting good reviews.

    Also Antivir Personanl (Free).

    If you want to pay for for something, Antivir premium costs 20 EUR.

    Posted 2 years ago #
14. grumm - Member

    Sorry was only joking - Norton is probably worse than any virus you might get.

    Posted 2 years ago #
15. nimrod2410 - Member

    I bought my daughter an Acer note pad that came with Mcafee that has now expired and I need to pay to update. Can I get the same protection from the free antivirus or should I shell out?

    Sorry for the highjack BTW.

    Posted 2 years ago #
16. 29erKeith - Member

    Kapersky's free if you bank with Barclays

    I think one or two of the other banks offer some free too, check with your bank

    Posted 2 years ago #
17. nuke - Member

    Another vote for Microsoft Security Essentials

    http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/default.aspx

    Posted 2 years ago #
18. clubber - Member

    nimrod2410 - Member
    I bought my daughter an Acer note pad that came with Mcafee that has now expired and I need to pay to update. Can I get the same protection from the free antivirus or should I shell out?

    The good free ones mentioned above all work perfectly well. Absolutely no point in shelling out.

    Posted 2 years ago #
19. GrahamS - Member

    Not sure I'd go with the Microsoft one - not because it's bad, I'm sure it's quite good.

    But because of who makes it, it may be a bigger, more tempting target for hackers as there would be a lot of kudos for taking it down.

    Posted 2 years ago #
20. GrahamS - Member

    I bought my daughter an Acer note pad that came with Mcafee that has now expired and I need to pay to update. Can I get the same protection from the free antivirus or should I shell out?

    Depends on the kind of websites she frequents. How much porn does she watch?

    Posted 2 years ago #
21. Padowan - Member

    Migrate to Ubuntu/Linux and you never need to worry about spyware/viruses ever again. Been running it for over 2 years now and love it, can do everything I need to do and there's free software to rival almost all of the mainstream alternatives.

    Posted 2 years ago #
22. GrahamS - Member

    cat Padowan > /dev/null

    Posted 2 years ago #
23. clubber - Member

    Geek! (both of you )

    Posted 2 years ago #
24. attractivefish - Member

    just be done with it and buy a mac, go on you know you want too.

    though ubuntu is a good second best.

    Posted 2 years ago #
25. nimrod2410 - Member

    Grahams - You are one sick man
    shes 11 and Miley **** Cyrus is all she's interested in - i think??

    Posted 2 years ago #
26. retro83 - Member

    Migrate to Ubuntu/Linux and you never need to worry about spyware/viruses ever again.

    Never heard of rootkits then?

    Posted 2 years ago #
27. don simon - Member

    Hmmmmm! That was adifficult one, I couldn't actually decide between AVG and Avast so I finally took attractivefish's advice and bought a Mac. Free AV or €1500 on a Mac, no contest.

    I'm giving Avast a go, if this doesn't work out I'll try Avast.

    Thanks folks.

    Posted 2 years ago #
28. GrahamS - Member

    Some good advice here too:
    http://lifehacker.com/5401453/stop-paying-for-windows-security-microsofts-security-tools-are-good-enough

    Posted 2 years ago #

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