JetSet Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Avast for me. As Fodder said Norton And Macafee hog resources and are too intrusive. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stutopia Posted December 27, 2013 Share Posted December 27, 2013 Avast and malwarebytes for my PC. ClamXav for the Mac. I found Norton a bit resource hungry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dashurik Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 I use lemsip...:-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioneabee Posted December 28, 2013 Author Share Posted December 28, 2013 lemsip won't cure a virus...............in fact I don't know what lemsip will cure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
370Ad Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Norton and macafee are awful, resource hogging and not very good. Please don't waste your hard earned in those. As has been said go for a recommended free AV such as avast or avg ( the latter was good but I found wasn't as effective after the first year or so) and malware bytes or other spyware:malware protection. All free and very effective. What a load of old rubbish! Yes Norton use to be very resource hogging but that's only because it was a decent AV. It is a lot better on performance now and is still the number one AV voted by Gartner who actually know what they are talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodder Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Norton and macafee are awful, resource hogging and not very good. Please don't waste your hard earned in those. As has been said go for a recommended free AV such as avast or avg ( the latter was good but I found wasn't as effective after the first year or so) and malware bytes or other spyware:malware protection. All free and very effective. What a load of old rubbish! Yes Norton use to be very resource hogging but that's only because it was a decent AV. It is a lot better on performance now and is still the number one AV voted by Gartner who actually know what they are talking about. Pardon? In my experience it's bloated expensive and not very effective but yes it could've changed in the last year or so which was my last encounter with the product. I may also know what I'm talking about.... But then maybe I don't P.s not a fan of symantec products at all based on my overall experience from enterprise down to end user so my opinion maybe biased Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glrnet Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Norton and macafee are awful, resource hogging and not very good. Please don't waste your hard earned in those. As has been said go for a recommended free AV such as avast or avg ( the latter was good but I found wasn't as effective after the first year or so) and malware bytes or other spyware:malware protection. All free and very effective. What a load of old rubbish! Yes Norton use to be very resource hogging but that's only because it was a decent AV. It is a lot better on performance now and is still the number one AV voted by Gartner who actually know what they are talking about. For the uninitiated and because I'm too lazy to Google it who or what is Gartner? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glrnet Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Avast and malwarebytes for my PC. ClamXav for the Mac. I found Norton a bit resource hungry. And how necessary is AV for Mac? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy78 Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 +1 for Kaspersky... I also get it free with my Barclays bank account, which is nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beavis Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Eset Nod 32, I wont use anything else. I wouldn't touch Norton with a barge pole. http://www.eset.co.uk/Home/NOD32-Antivirus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEUS Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 My norton av was 18 quid for three licences for the year so it's not expensive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stutopia Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Avast and malwarebytes for my PC. ClamXav for the Mac. I found Norton a bit resource hungry. And how necessary is AV for Mac? I use it for on demand scans of inbound email attachments, I know I won't get infected but I don't like to pass on attachments that might be contaminated to my mates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodder Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Gartner are an independent techogy research company. They can be useful as an indication for executives to benchmark against but typically (in my experience) means very little when on the ground. The quadrant graph posted points to them being very effective however it doesn't explain what other factors it's takes into account other than stopping infection..... To be honest even the top 0 day products are all fallible to some extent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glrnet Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Thank you ^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyranchers Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 microsoft security essentials its FREE to download, never had any issues with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choptop Posted December 29, 2013 Share Posted December 29, 2013 Norton is a good allrounder in my opinion. AVG is good for a free AV programme and is excellent for android based tablets and phones 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioneabee Posted December 29, 2013 Author Share Posted December 29, 2013 I like the identity safe feature on Norton (remembers your passwords for different sites) so from the above (very) mixed bag, think I'm gonna stick with it for another year cheers all for the helpful comments 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiGFoetus Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 I've not tried Norton in years as it managed to wreck the os on two different machines I installed it on. This was 10 years ago though. Even so, I wouldn't choose it over the free alternatives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinS Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 I couldn't recommend ESET NOD32 or Smart Security more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jollyranchers Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 See this link http://ninite.com/ I use all the security under the security section , best off all its all free and doesnt download any rubbish with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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