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[Cagey]

Been hit again with a fistful of trojans, similar to the other posting . This one had blocked all attempts at quarantining and deleting by McAfee and Malwyrebytes so the 'puter had to go down to the magician in High St. AGAIN and at £40 a pop, not a happy bunny here. So any of you folks not had a hit use a different protection system, like Norton 360 and can vouch for it's effectiveness ? I don't want to lash out valuable heli folding stuff needlessly,( must be the jockenesian in me blood ) Be obliged.

[Aidi]

I have been using ESET NOD32 Antivirus 4 for the past few years. It updates constantly and is not a hog on the systems resources.

Never had a virus since using it... about £29 a year if i remember right.

Norton is a system killer IMO. It eats away at CPU and RAM and can slow your PC to a crawl if not configured correctly.

Hope this helps somewhat.

Rgds
Aidi

[GIR8]

AVAST it's free and very easy to use.

[Mslater]

[QUOTE=Cagey;625858]Been hit again with a fistful of trojans, similar to the other posting . This one had blocked all attempts at quarantining and deleting by McAfee and Malwyrebytes so the 'puter had to go down to the magician in High St. AGAIN and at £40 a pop, not a happy bunny here. So any of you folks not had a hit use a different protection system, like Norton 360 and can vouch for it's effectiveness ? I don't want to lash out valuable heli folding stuff needlessly,( must be the jockenesian in me blood ) Be obliged.[/QUOTE]

McAfee is the best by far - Norton constantly lets stuff through. The problem lies in configuration and not buying the cheap home user version.

[Vic.P]

Although it's a bit system hungry at times, NORTON is the one to go for, i've taken a few hits from trojans, bloodhounds and other malware and Norton sorts it all, never had a computer crash because of a virus in 3 years of using Norton.
At about £35.00 it's cheaper than taking it to the magician :)

Of course, it helps if you avoid going to too many of "those" sites :smilielol5:

[Mark_T]

Who do you bank with?

Many of them offer free AV software these days.

Barclays, for example, provide an annual Kaspersky license for up to 3 PCs free of charge.

[Dave Rand]

[QUOTE=GIR8;625864]AVAST it's free and very easy to use.[/QUOTE]

I had avast and it let a nasty virus through that destroyed my Os not impressed :(

[karandras]

[QUOTE=Cagey;625858]Been hit again with a fistful of trojans, similar to the other posting . This one had blocked all attempts at quarantining and deleting by McAfee and Malwyrebytes so the 'puter had to go down to the magician in High St. AGAIN and at £40 a pop, not a happy bunny here. So any of you folks not had a hit use a different protection system, like Norton 360 and can vouch for it's effectiveness ? I don't want to lash out valuable heli folding stuff needlessly,( must be the jockenesian in me blood ) Be obliged.[/QUOTE]

Hi Mate,

Get a decent antivirus like Avast or AVG, they both do free versions (Avast Is my personal chioce). DON'T bother with mcafee or norton - they are both rubbish.

Some people will diagree with this next bit but..... install a decent software firewall like comodo (again it's free).

Install Malwarebytes and keep it up to date.

If you are using internet explorer then stop - download a decent web browser like firefox or safari.

Once you have installed all of the above, make sure they are fully up to date and run a full antivirus and antimalware scan.

Hope that helps,

[danch]

Stay away from norton, memory & resource hungry & a dog of an install, have a look at avira & use in conjunction with malwarebytes & spybot search & destroy, use it on all my customer setups & never had an issue or reinfection

Dan

[Steve]

I might be wrong but I suspect these ideas that Norton slows your machine down and renders it 'almost unusable' are a bit out-dated. This rumour has been banded around the web for so long now, that I'm sure they have sorted their game out. I have been using it for years (on my work PC, so they pay) and the most recent version has little or no affect on the computer's performance. Well, I mean, as far as I know because I've got it running, if you know what I mean. I don't use IE as my main browser (only for trouble shooting web design pages) and prefer to use Safari.

Oh, and I've never been troubled by a threat either.

However, I also believe that anti-vrius (et al) software is only ever one step behind the offenders, so having your software up-to-date with the most recent protection file from yesterday does not protect you from tomorrow's virus or trojan, so you have to be vigilant none-the-less.

[CChris]

[QUOTE=Steve;625901]I might be wrong but I suspect these ideas that Norton slows your machine down and renders it 'almost unusable' are a bit out-dated. This rumour has been banded around the web for so long now, that I'm sure they have sorted their game out. I have been using it for years (on my work PC, so they pay) and the most recent version has little or no affect on the computer's performance. Well, I mean, as far as I know because I've got it running, if you know what I mean. I don't use IE as my main browser (only for trouble shooting web design pages) and prefer to use Safari.

Oh, and I've never been troubled by a threat either.

However, I also believe that anti-vrius (et al) software is only ever one step behind the offenders, so having your software up-to-date with the most recent protection file from yesterday does not protect you from tomorrow's virus or trojan, so you have to be vigilant none-the-less.[/QUOTE]

I have been using Norton for a number of years, and yes the older versions used to slow it down, but since 2010 its been much much better.

Chris.

[callum]

BitDefender get's my vote, Along with NOD 32.

But, You need to ask yourself.. Why are you getting so many infections?

Generally speaking.. If you're visiting safeish websites, etc, The most that will probably pop up is a iffy cookie or two.

There's AVs that are better then others - Yes.

However, Virus's are so easily FUD (Fully Undectable) Crypted that any AVs on the market will not pick it up for months or or at all - Depending on the distribution and algoritm

[unwind-protect]

AVG always seemed to be the best bet; but I've been recommended Microsoft Security Essentials of late. As yet I don't seem to have hit anything to awaken it, but I do know it's a lot faster than AVG!

The other program I can recommend is SuperAntiSpyware. Despite sounding decidedly dodgy it was actually the only thing that cleared up a nasty trojan I had a year or so ago.

In general, though, you want to stop them before they get onto your machine in the first place. Ensure you run Microsoft Updates frequently, and make sure you have the latest versions of Flash and Adobe acrobat (if you use them), as they seem to be the common vectors used as far as I can tell.

[Gav]

I've used norton for a couple of years but recently cancelled the yearly subscription and opted to use Microsoft Security Essentials. So far I've found it to be very good and not yet had any problems. Plus its free.

[Rsformatc]

[QUOTE=Gav;625965]I've used norton for a couple of years but recently cancelled the yearly subscription and opted to use Microsoft Security Essentials. So far I've found it to be very good and not yet had any problems. Plus its free.[/QUOTE]

+1 for this. I used to use NOD32, but didn't feel like paying to renew. Been very pleased with Microsoft's offering.