anyone recommend a good antivirus

garyt43

Can anyone recommend a good anti virus software.....And where to source it from....

Cheers

Talldarkanhappy

AVG version 9 free is good for most normal stuff

uch

I find Avira excellent

garyt43

cheers guys....using the free version of avira myself.....must get the premium version to be on the safe side.....mcafee and norton are pretty much a waste of time

billymitchell

"super anti spyware" is pretty good as well

K-9

garyt43 wrote: »

cheers guys....using the free version of avira myself.....must get the premium version to be on the safe side.....mcafee and norton are pretty much a waste of time

From a couple of reviews, it isn't worth the money!

Used Avira for ages, trying the new Avast now and very impressed.

Threatfire is very good as a top up to the free AV's:

ThreatFire AntiVirus - Behavioral Virus and Spyware Protection

T-Bird

IMHO Best free without any "reminders" to buy is one by Microsoft

Owen

Microsoft's security essentials is pretty much winning the reviews at the moment, and is completely free. Don't bother with anything else. And certainly don't pay for it either.

K-9

PaintDoctor wrote: »

Microsoft's security essentials is pretty much winning the reviews at the moment, and is completely free. Don't bother with anything else. And certainly don't pay for it either.

What reviews are these?

T-Bird

K-9 wrote: »

What reviews are these?

AV-Comparatives.org
I go by this site every year because it is completely independent and Microsoft is way up there.

Edit: Egg on face time... Last time I looked at this site Microsoft was way up there. But I see that they have a new report out since last month and it is not so good...

Kevin!

The best Security suite to get is eset, this is not just my opinion, but countless other security experts.

You can buy either a bundle of all rounder protection, called the Smart Security Suite (which Is what I use)

or you can just purchase ESET Antivirus.

it can be obtained from here http://eset.ie, and if your a student you qualify for extra discount.

Kevin.

K-9

thundermuppet wrote: »

AV-Comparatives.org
I go by this site every year because it is completely independent and Microsoft is way up there.

Edit: Egg on face time... Last time I looked at this site Microsoft was way up there. But I see that they have a new report out since last month and it is not so good...

Funny enough, I was on that last week, the new report mustn't be long out.

garyt43

cheers for the link kevin.....cheers for help all

Mc Love

Using McAfee forever - find it the best

It might just be me but I've found the XP version of Security Essentials to be quite a hog. I installed it on a Dell Inspiron 1000 and the machine went unusably slow, granted it only had 256MB of RAM though. I also installed it on my own machine, before I installed Windows 7, and noticed anything up to a 5 second lag when double-clicking a JPEG or audio file (during this time MsMpEng.exe was hogging the CPU) and my laptop is by no means a slow one.

BarryM

Mc Love wrote: »

Using McAfee forever - find it the best

Came bundled, worked fine but in the last few months it has a)fallen over several times, telling me I'm not protected b) disappeared from the pc twice and c) the support have disabled/uninstalled it and left me hanging...

That's why I'm on here looking for something better!!

BarryM

garyt43 wrote: »

cheers guys....using the free version of avira myself.....must get the premium version to be on the safe side.....mcafee and norton are pretty much a waste of time

How do you avoid the 'offers' stuff to get the freebie?

havetoquit

Not sure which category this fits into, but would be really grateful for advice from anyone who has the IT knowledge who can help.
Received an email this morning which, to all intents and purposes appeared to be from my cousin and which I was expecting. Imagine my shock on seeing these words beside her name in the Outlook Express bar. 'Urgent Help Needed Immediately' It was all about some guy who supposedly been mugged near his hotel and desperately needed money to get him back home!!!!!!!! Yes, heard of this stupid scam before, but when I actually saw that he/she had also copied my cousins individual signature at the bottom of the page, it was freaky and unsettling to say the least. I have warned her to change her email address, but am still at a loss to know how this happens and if there is anything we can do to prevent it. There was also an attachment, but obviously left unopened.This experience has added a serious question about how do we recognise a scam of this kind when it actually appears to come from a recognised email address and initially would not give rise to suspicion. Thanks a million if anyone knows anything at all about this kind of thing or how I should proceed.

Amalgam

You can 'spoof' the origin of an email very easily, your relative should not have to change her email. By all means, change the password, but the email has just probably been 'harvested' through a social site or some other means.

Don't be unduly worried about it.

havetoquit

Gosh thank you so much for sucha rapid resp' Being totally untech in nature and far too old to learn I had got myself into a bit of a state. You have really helped and it is much appreciated I assure you. How do I 'spoof' the mail as you suggested and how is it that people can physically access our mail and do this? That must mean that they are reading it also no? You are so kind to respond and I do not expect an equally rapid one here at all ok?

Amalgam

havetoquit, the situation suggests your relative's mailing list or address book got into the wrong hands.

This can happen if the computer is infected by malware or a virus of some sort. The situation can also happen if your relative has allowed her address book to be accessed by a social website of some sort.

Whatever happens, don't 'personalise' it, don't worry about it from that point of view. It is very likely just software running a script and emailing everyone on her address book.

Ask your relative to change her email password, then get the person to install and use an antivirus.

Have a look at the 'sticky' topics in this forum for some directions.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1009

havetoquit

Thank you so much and found all the info very helpful. I guess that seeing my cousin's very individual signature in Script form which is put on all mails made me wonder if someone somewhere is actually reading our mail, not that this would make rivetting reading, but am glad that I never ever discuss serious issues, give numbers, adddresses etc on internet. When I see the amount of ipersonal nfo that some people give out on social networking sites it is frightening. Thanks again. Your a star!

havetoquit

Thanks again for all help and we got to the bottom of it. The Canadian police managed to trace the person who took over her email account and blocked it. He lives in Holland and had sent that stupid message to everyone on her email list. What low lives abound in this world and makes us so sceptical and distrustful of almost everything and everyone and that essentially takes away a chunk of freedom I think.