Best Internet Security Package?? Advice Please :)

LittleStar

Hi All!!

Out of the following Internet Security packages what would you recommend?

1. McAfee 2010
2. Kaspersky 2010
3. Norton 2010

I know you can get free downloads, but its for my dads PC, and he doesn't seem to understand that they can give the same protection as the purchased ones ... all of them are about £20 at the moment so thats not too bad for his own peace of mind!

I have used Norton before and I know it can hog alot of resources ... but not used it for a few years so not sure if it has improved?

Any advice on the above would be great!

Thank you!

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year!!

GunJack

LittleStar wrote: »

I know you can get free downloads, but its for my dads PC, and he doesn't seem to understand that they can give the same protection as the purchased ones ...

THIS is the problem....avast and avira free are better, lesss intrusive and less resource-hungry. Add Malwarebytes Antimalware, CCleaner, Defraggler, Spybot S+D and maybe a firewall (or use the windows one) and you have a fully-functional decent suite for nothing. e.g. I've just been sorting out a pc with kasperdky on it, and every time I tried to do anything I had to pacify kaspersky first...it was as bad as windows User Account Control

However, if you really can't get the message over, then kaspersky would be the one out of the three I'd say go with. Still add the other bits along with it, though....

busenbust

Neither of those three! Avast, AVG, Avira will all do a cheaper (free) and as effective job :cool:

BillScarab

Out of those three Kaspersky. If you really want to pa hav a look at Eset.

As an alterntive to the other free one have a look at Microsoft Security Essentials. Very low on resources and good. Your Dad may be happy with that as it's from Microsoft.

closed

Paid - Kaspersky.

Free - Avast, avira, or mse, not AVG.

Money_Grabber13579

Norton has the best user interface, and is on similar ratings as Kaspersky. It's what I use and works okay for me. Ignore McAfee. Norton improved with the 2009 version and no longer hogs resources.

spaceboy

busenbust wrote: »

Neither of those three! Avast, AVG, Avira will all do a cheaper (free) and as effective job :cool:

Microsoft Security Essentials is free and beats all three of those. I've just switched from Avira to MSE and MSE detected something that Avira had missed.

There's a test of lots of anti-virus programs in the current Computer Shopper mag and MSE won (AVG second) out of the free ones, Kaspersky won (Norton second) out of the ones that you pay for, McAfee was the worst pay one.

Money_Grabber13579

spaceboy wrote: »

Microsoft Security Essentials is free and beats all three of those. I've just switched from Avira to MSE and MSE detected something that Avira had missed.

There's a test of lots of anti-virus programs in the current Computer Shopper mag and MSE won (AVG second) out of the free ones, Kaspersky won (Norton second) out of the ones that you pay for, McAfee was the worst pay one.

That probably sums it up pretty well!

closed

2 AVG failures in the last 24 hours, both common infections:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2157151

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=2154485

Money_Grabber13579

Oh yes, didn't notice AVG in that list... Not sure how they got that. Besides, it's a slow beast.

spaceboy

AVG equalled Norton and Kaspersky on everything apart from complete remediation where it scored 17 out of 20 compared with 18-19 for Norton, MSE and Kaspersky. They gave it 4 stars out of 5, Avast got 3 and Avira got 2. MSE got 4 as well.

They did say thought that AVG updated from 8.5 to 9.0 half way through the tests, 8.5 was compromised 4 times in the first 11 tests, but 9.0 was never compromised.