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I have Norton at the moment, due to renew in the next few weeks. Are there any decent alternatives? Ideally looking to reduce the amount of memory it takes up. Currently it's taking up around 60MB
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Norton is the most horrific program available, its proper bloatware.
Avast is good
AVG free edition will probably do most people fine. Not sure what memory it takes up but never had a problem with it.
I've got "AVG" for the anti-vrus; "zone alarm" for the firewall and run Firefox with the "no-script" extension.
You might also like to supplement this with "Ad-aware" and "Spy-bot search and destroy". Google each for more info.
Its all free stuff too 🙂
AVG Free along with spybot S&D free.
Similar to E-T, I use AVG free, adaware and spybot s&d (running them manually). Use standard windows firewall, plus firewall on my router.
Kaperski seems good to me, free if you bank with Barclays
Norton is appalling and rather like a virus itself - slows your computer to a grinding halt. I couldn't properly delete it off my old PC and it pretty much killed it.
I have generally found Kaspersky to be good ( but then I don't tend to get viruses ).
Avast 14 months free, no popup reminders or BS al la AVG, just a 7 level AV protection system.
Highly recommended (as is kaspersky)
Avast and it's free no matter who you bank with. 😯
Been using Avast for about 5 years now.
I use Opera as a browser and email client. When I started using Opera, Avast was the only free product that would fully integrate with the email client.
Great product. Only downside is that you have to re-register every year but it's an easy process to get your new product code and you're off again!