Don't ya just hate it when...

[easypickingsere]

In my humble opinion Martin go for either the one I use or AVG theyre both really good and both FREE, as a side note Zonealarm is a good and easy to use firewall, why pay for somthing that will slow your machine down?

Bit like vista unless you want to spend heli money on CPU and Ram n GPU upgrades!

[Mart61]

Right - just downloaded Avast. Let's see how that goes.

How about firewalls - what you using?

[Brian Gifford]

I just use the Windows one - if your AV software is up to scratch, shouldn't have a problem.

Off topic, how goes it with Idleup?

[Mart61]

Didn't get a chance to play with idle up last night. Still, I have Friday off so will play then.

On running Avast last night, it detected three Trojans which it dealt with for me! Cool!

[Guest]

If you are using a router with a built in firewall then you are fairly safe. Then if you want just stick the XP or Vista firewall on and you will be fine.

AVG For Free here too - used it on so many machines, its great

[liambaker996]

avg free down to the ground i hate norton it just is rubbish tells you have viruses and then scan using verious other software including avg free and no sign of any clear all my pc still says i have 1 hate it get avg

[frazzle]

agree with AVG.. If you load free version you can get free upgrade )with a bit of fiddling about)..
Reliable, unobtrusive and doesnt slow everything down like Nortons and take an age to load up.

Used Nortons for yoears but AVG just SOOOOO much better
Fraser

[phockzie]

Think about it like this...

The very best antivirus software would slow your computer down to a stop because it would check for every virus ever written and all possibly combination of variations of every virus.

Most antivirus software has a balance of good protection against good performance.

So unfortunately, the best option for the user of the pc is no performance hit at all, i.e. no protection.

I usually install McAfee antivirus with all protection on full and then start turning off parts of the scanning until the machine becomes usable again. Unfortunately this usually means i have turned off most of the protection and i then get my PC infected again.

Good protection = Bad performance.
Good performance = No protection.

Find a balance somewhere in the middle and you'll be ok.

[leckylee]

Call me scepticle but i think the AV companies create the virus's in the first place, lets face it they would not be in business otherwise.

[MartinH]

I did use avg but found over the last 2 years it got a bit bad so now use microsoft security. im careful on what I download etc etc so its ok for me.

[Mart61]

Well, didn't expect to see this thread pop up again.

I've been using Avast ever since this thread with no problems at all.

[Birdie4x4]

Uninstall Norton its rubbish

Install this instead

http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html