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Popped into Currys yesterday and purchased a new laptop. They tried very had to sell me Norton, I explained that I understood it to be very invasive. They replied that it used to be but no longer.
Metioned I use Avast to which they said free editions just dont give a high enough level of protection etc etc.
They said if not Norton I should look at McAfee so were they talking sense or doing a selling job on me.
Thanks for any advice
The best AV seems to change fairly regularly. I've used (free)AVG for years with no problems.
They'll sell anything that gets them some commision
They're talking bollox. Avast or avg will do fine, but they don't make money on those 🙂
Avast and AVG are just fine, they are just trying to sell you on something that will make them money.
Thought so didn't purchase it so what else along side Avast should I be runing ?
avg or windows defender seem best at the minute both free. As a minor point they are trying to sell something of course they are talking bollox.
If you want to try ask them how it integrates with the windows kernal and how that impacts detection rates and memory utilisation (or any other list of long words that they will nod and say just fine too)
If a currys salesman told me it was monday, i'd still check. They are mostly complete idiots
Norton will give you more protection from online fraud among other things but as a cosequence it will be more invasive but this really depends on your system and how you set up the program. I sell norton and recommend it to anyone purchasing a PC because its my job to do so but would i purchase it myself......no i wouldn't but then again not everyone is as clued up on the net as you or i may be. As with life its all about choice, do you need AV? yes you do but where you get it and what you use is the choice.
😀If a currys salesman told me it was monday, i'd still check. They are mostly complete idiots
If you don't have a firewall integrated into a router of yours then get one of the free firewalls. Comodo firewall is a bit of a pain to configure so it does not jump up at you all the time but brilliant once setup. Some sort of spyware detector / cleaner is also good idea.