Avast or Norton

Yougart15

Right well on my computer iv had norton for 3 years now and not a rpoblem or virus. Im short on money at the moment tho and iv heard Avast is free. Is avast reliable?

PogMoThoin

Yougart15 wrote: »

Right well on my computer iv had norton for 3 years now and not a rpoblem or virus. Im short on money at the moment tho and iv heard Avast is free. Is avast reliable?

:rolleyes: Norton is the worst virus ya could ever put on a pc. The longer its on, the more it slows your pc down. Avast or Avg free are many times better than it. Don't ever pay for antivirus software as there are better free alternatives.

If you really do insist on paying for one use Nod32 or Kapersky.

mathias

Does the same job and does it better in the sense that when it runs its scan it doesnt cripple the PC.

Ive been using it on 2 home pcs now for 2 years , not one problem , brilliant.
Cannot fault it.

Tony H

half price kasperski (plus a code to get another 30% off) at the moment in bargain alerts
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055181905
i got a licence for 3 computers for £14(€21 today )
or as has been suggseted avg or avast which are free and quite good .

majiktripp

Avast all the way, free subscription for home users and its less muck and junk than Norton. Avast or AVG is your best options, I doubt Norton was the reason your machine stayed virus free in the first place, your probably just a cautious user!

dulpit

I used to have Norton for like 2 years or something, it worked brilliantly but it was soooo slow, was killing the PC... Decided to uninstall it & got avast! instead...

Avast! does the same work as Norton (seems to update virus definitions a lot more though..) and it's free and it does not rape your computer...


Avast! ftw!!!

Yougart15

ok well iv just got my new insiron 1521 today and dell hav given me macAfee securtity eith it (even thought they said i wasnt getting an anti virus) will macafee slow the laptown down or would i be better off uninstalling and getting avast?

AlmightyCushion

Yep get rid of mcaffee.

superweld

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Yep get rid of mcaffee.

just in regard to this. is it recommended to completely remove all mcafee related features or just the antivirus? i.e i want to put avg on my new laptop and previously i just removed the antivirus but the mcafee control centre was still running, i left it as it seemed to cover some other stuff, what is the most advisable?

unnameduser

Paying for Antivirus protection on a normal computer in this day and age??? Never heard of it!!

Seriously OP, AVG or Avast are exactly what you are looking for.

AlmightyCushion

superweld wrote: »

just in regard to this. is it recommended to completely remove all mcafee related features or just the antivirus? i.e i want to put avg on my new laptop and previously i just removed the antivirus but the mcafee control centre was still running, i left it as it seemed to cover some other stuff, what is the most advisable?

Get rid of it all. You can get free anti-virus, free spyware remover and free firewall that are better than mc affee.

DeX_Wizard

Easy to install,Very easy to use,doesent even show itself at boot up it just sits in the system tray,Smal updates so you dont have to wait an hour on a dial-up connection,and the option for low priority when scanning.
had it for a year

AVG 9/10
avast [havent tryd it yet]
MacFee 1/10
Northon 0/10
live care [havent tryd it and dont want to]

old boy

it seems it is almost impossible to remove mc affee totaly once it is installed, tech republic have a downloadable program to compleatly remove it

jarvis

Hi,
I've been using Norton Internet security for years and never had a problem. Comes with firewall, anti phishing, anti spam as well as anti virus.

I'd really recommend it, Doesn't slow down either my pc or laptop. Just bought N.I.S. 2007 3 user license on Ebay for €15 including postage and packaging from USA. Yes €20....$14.?? Have used the same seller for 2 years now. It's practically free.

J

Witcher

dulpit wrote: »

it worked brilliantly but it was soooo slow, was killing the PC

i use norton and my pc is never slow, its fine!


:cool::cool::cool:

is_that_so

I am using the Personal version of McAfee and the Small Business Version and have no complaints about either. Of the commercial ones, over the years I have found both McAfee and Kaspersky have consistently done what they are supposed to do, as did Norton once upon a time. Although I will admit both can be heavy on resources.

More often than not people run into trouble when they come on the Web to ask questions because that usually suggests they haven't been using anything at all.
Of the free ones , I find the AVG pretty good, having little experience of Avast.

I do think it's a bit disingenuous of people so say dump this one or that one. For me Norton is the only package I am very wary of, as I have found it to cause more problems than it cures.

As long as people are learning from what they read here and putting on appropriate protection then that's enough in my book.

Shad0w

Stay away from Norton or McAfee. Norton is fine for Corporate use but terrible when it comes to Home use as it does not pick up many if any Trojans... I have seen many times PC's that have Norton installed but out of date. When I remove Norton and install AVG it picks up and removes numerous Dialers/Trojans and even virus's that should have been picked up by Norton.


I have never used Avast so I can't comment, but for me AVG is by far the best Free Anti-Virus out there at the mo'.

AVG also have a free Anti-Spyware tool as well

eoinf2000

have avast and have to say the updates are sometimes twice or 3 times daily,i know this because a stephen hawking sound a like tells me and gives me a fright during the day!! i download a huge amount of stuff and have to say never had a problem with viruses when using avast norton did slow my laptop when scanning so dumped it!