What Anti-Virus s/w do you use

[JBMUK]

Over the years I have used many AV software.. over the last 2-3 years I have had Norton Internet Secuirty and also McAfee.. I started to have problems with Norton and eventually got rid and put on McAfee..

All was well with McAfee until the subscription was to expire, then McAfee started to play up like stopping me accessing the internet etc..

Im now looking to update my computers and laptop so its no cheap affair as I have 3 desktops and 1 laptop to pay for.

So wondering what av and malware products you use?

Cheers
JBM

[bartonflyer]

AV - Avast Antivirus www.avast.com (http://www.avast.com/)- can't recommend it highly enough - it's free for home use, but in my company we use it commercialy and replace Sophos with it.

Malware - Try Ewido (http://www.ewido.net/en/) and Ad-Aware from http://www.lavasoft.com

Also would not be without HiJackThis from Merijn http://www.merijn.org (http://www.merijn.org/index.php)

Hope these help - Ian

[BarryM]

AVG free edition, for the past couple of years, its fantastic, get choice to heal a virus or move to a vault for safe keeping out ur system, (or delete). Updates daily nearly, cant fault it one little bit.

ALthough i have a ruddy virus on here now that i cant find, but avg keeps locking up for me.

[David Worthington]

Yep AVG does it for me too........... but somehow i paid for mine not sure how much or what i get that Barry dont........ but .... well impressed with the almost daily updates etc......... i would endorse all BM says above..... and like all on thisa forum ..... AVG gets on well with all my various of progs and firewall thingys as well.... unlike Naughty Norton.... who was always fallin out with others he shared a HD with

[JBMUK]

I take it you only use AVG for antivirus David rather than the full suite ?

[David Worthington]

yer thats it, mainly the anti-virus and it does a daily scan each mornin at set time usually before i start working............ never used the full facility, as luckily i havent needed it so far

[Krazy Pengwin]

For my Mac, I use Intego Virus Barrier, for the PC, I have Norton (and not had any problems)

[Mal]

I use CA Anti virus (available on the microsoft website) which is free for a year and zone alarm for a firewall. I have had CA on all four of my compters for 18 months and cant recall any problems. :woot:

[StuartR]

Norton has a certain reputation with me at home and with the techies at work - let's just say we all avoid it like the p l a g u e.

I used to use Zone Alarm Pro but I got fed up with it nagging me all the time and it caused me some problems with a couple of applications and a Storage Area Network device so I dropped it.

I now use Avast (www.avast.com (http://www.avast.com)) and it works well for me. I also use the Windows firewall even though I'm behind a NAT router. I have 3 other PCs on the network and they all use Avast and we've caught a couple of viruses on emails but otherwise everything is ticking over nicely and it updates the program and signature files automatically - there's even a "virus database has been updated" audio message that sometimes comes when you least expect it :Dm . I'd recommend giving it a go - there is a free version for home users.

If Avast isn't enough for you on its own then try adding Spybot to your arsenal. Lavasoft's Ad-aware is another piece of software worth looking at. IIRC both have free versions for home users.

Finally, BHO Demon for those tricky "Browser" Helper apps.

Finally, Finally you might like to look at Microsoft's own "Windows Defender" don't know if it's still in beta but it looked promising when I tried it out a few months back.

Test your security here - grc.com (no www.) (http://www.)) using "ShieldsUp", a sure way to amuse yourself for half an hour and get a warm glow when you get all green lights :)

BTW, I'm not really a security junkie ;)c

[Stemmy]

I have BT Broadband and it now comes with - Anti virus and spam killers etc for free.

[dmr]

I use AVG free anti-virus (at home) and Spybot Search And Destroy.

I've had {knocking on wood, crossing fingers} no virus or spybot trouble ever that I know of.

[JBMUK]

I have BT Broadband and it now comes with - Anti virus and spam killers etc for free.

Im on BT as well, but have been having connection resets for the last 8 weeks, BT are not on the ball, after 15 years in the communcations market there is one person they cant give there bull to and thats me.. They tried to imply that it must be my kit (as they always do) without even looking.. Even though I was on a different machine, tried a different router, different filter and even switched off all the other electrical things...

anyway, i have got rid of mcafee now and have updated to AVG for spyware and virus ... it found loads of crap so mcafee wasnt doing its job or was mucked up in some way

[Earl53]

I use AVG free anti-virus (at home) and Spybot Search And Destroy.

I've had {knocking on wood, crossing fingers} no virus or spybot trouble ever that I know of.

I use the same and I also run Firefox and since having that I've not had any trouble.

[tonymidd]

Me too, AVG Pro (not the free version this has even more features) and FireFox. No problems at all.

[JBMUK]

yeh I also use firefox, have much less problems than I did with IE