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PC protection: separate products or 'All-in-one' : Free vs Pay products

  • 08-11-2008 11:56am
    #1
    Carlow52
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭


    My existing 'all-in-one' product [bitdefender.com] has expired and have spent 2 days trying to renew it with no success so am looking for a replacement.

    Have looked on this forum and it seems that separate products are preferred as opposed to 'all-in-one' products.
    eg:
    malwarebytes
    comodo
    avira

    Some are free and some are not.

    Would appreciate any suggestions/comments.

    Am reasonably pc illiterate:)
    Thanks


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  • #2
    Dartz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,405 ✭✭✭Dartz


    I've used Kaspersky Internet Security for a while. €70 off the shelf in PC World for three systems. Including a pretty intelligent firewall, it does it's job pretty well. I've never had a problem with it. It is a fan of pop-up messages, which can be annoying, but they're usually tucked away in the corner of your screen, and not in your face.

    One handy thing though, is that the scanner also picks up on vulnerabilities in your system, aswell as viruses.

    Nod32 is supposed to be a better virus scanner.

    I've also used Avast!.... which had a decent hitrate... though Kaspersky has gotten things Avast! didnt. It was free, painless, not completely obese, and did it's job quite happily. I still use it on a VM, just in case.

    I also had Norton 2006 and 2007 on two different computers.
    Never again.
    Took forever to scan. Never found a thing. Even when it was blindingly obvious there was something wrong.

    McAfee.
    Also never found a thing. Though I suspect that was because there was nothing for it too find. It came as bloatware on my laptop. I got rid of it when it's trial time ran out.


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