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Best Anti Virus Software - Free or to buy?

divadee
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Can anyone give me advice on the best anti virus software around now?

Be it free or to buy let me know your suggestions

I have been using norton 2002 (old but i thought good with all the updates on it!!)

thanks in advance
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  • hawkwinddotcom
    hawkwinddotcom Posts: 517 Forumite
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    AVG from Grisoft, free and brilliant
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  • garcia
    garcia Posts: 214 Forumite
    Agree. Why pay when you can get it for free?
  • divadee
    divadee Posts: 10,609 Forumite
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    someone at work receommended Kaspersky pro is avg better than that?
  • divadee
    divadee Posts: 10,609 Forumite
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    right i have got avg on now!!!


    and for some second advice i will need a new firewall as well any recommendation for that as well?
  • jack_daniels_2
    jack_daniels_2 Posts: 67 Forumite
    I use Sygate but thats a bit old now so this is also good its called kerio http://www.sunbelt-software.com/Kerio.cfm
  • sra
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    AVG and Kerio here too.
    :)
  • garcia
    garcia Posts: 214 Forumite
    Kerio for me too.

    P.S. you may want to look at this thread here for some other great free software.

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=225891
  • Tallymanjohn
    Tallymanjohn Posts: 1,060 Forumite
    I use Kaspersky Suite which includes a firewall etc. Very good, very quick & configurable - checks for updates every 2 hours (Norton is once a week). Bit pricier but you get what you pay for - I use the rescue disk facility to sort out other PCs which have been let down by their own antivirus.
  • skiddy2k
    skiddy2k Posts: 1,627 Forumite
    divadee wrote:
    someone at work receommended Kaspersky pro is avg better than that?
    HA HA HA!!! You'r comparing Kaspersky with AVG?... Thats like comparing a Ferrari to a bicycle.... Kaspersky's muchhhhh better than AVG IMO, probabily in most people's opinions if they know anything about AVs.

    I recomend Kaspersky, NOD32 or BitDefnder (my fav.3 in order of prefrence).
    I'm using KasperskyInternetSecurity6 at the moment, its great! verry light on resources and a pukka AV, great reputation. Same with NOD32, but i'm not using it.
  • nickmack
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    skiddy2k wrote:
    Kaspersky's muchhhhh better than AVG IMO, probabily in most people's opinions if they know anything about AVs.

    Kapersky is unofficially the most accurate scanner there is. So if the OP is looking to pay for an AV then this is the one.

    If the OP is after a freebie then Avast is considered slightly better than AVG for detection rates.
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