What Security do you use?

kiwipea

Hi
They're not free but i swear by Kaspersky Anti Hacker and Kaspersky Anti-Virus, I had Mcafee before that but it caused a load of problems, the main one being that my cpu usage was far too high with their spamkiller and my computer ran VVVery slowly.
I also have Spybot Search and Destroy for adware/spyware etc which is free and seems to be working fine, i have had no problems with these (installed for a year now)

Aiadi

Loobeylou wrote:

Any one else got a take on this please?

and to have much more peace of mind then I would strongly recommend using sandboxie from https://www.sandboxie.com
Hope you surf safely.

lifeinwords

Hi,

I use ariva, its lightweight and picks up must things. But be warned, it does throw up annoying pop-ups asking you to purchase the pro version.

Thinking about changing to avast, which is better, ariva or avast?

lifeinwords

Peet

I use Norton Systemworks

superscaper

Is there any evidence at all that Norton is in any way better than the free alternatives?

fgaughan

superscaper wrote:

Is there any evidence at all that Norton is in any way better than the free alternatives?

erm no I don't think so.

But you will notice straight away that it slows your computer down though.
and its a right B@stard to uninstall

Peet

No, but it came free with the machine... It has caught more stuff than the McAfee security center system I use on my laptop.

To be honest, I will probably go to "free" once my subscription ends.

fgaughan

Peet wrote:

No, but it came free with the machine... It has caught more stuff than the McAfee security center system I use on my laptop.

So it says but we can never be sure ,makes you think its doing its job so you stick with it.
To be honest if your happy with it then stick with it

theloft

I am using Symantec AntiVirus, Sygate firewall, Spyware Blaster, Adaware & Crap Cleaner. Whenever I run a Scan with any of them, they ALL claim to have caught something!!
I wonder if this is a built-in tool, just to reassure us. I mean how can one system miss things and another find them! Very doubtful, what does Toxteth O' Grady think ??

Art_2

theloft wrote:

I am using Symantec AntiVirus, Sygate firewall, Spyware Blaster, Adaware & Crap Cleaner. Whenever I run a Scan with any of them, they ALL claim to have caught something!!
I wonder if this is a built-in tool, just to reassure us. I mean how can one system miss things and another find them! Very doubtful, what does Toxteth O' Grady think ??

It's often said that some programs give false positives to make it look like they're working and also to try and get you to buy an upgraded version.

Amongst other things I use SpyBot and AdAware. After running AdAware and cleaning my system, Spybot will often find 10 - 12 items to delete. I think this is because they look for different things. This proves it is always a good idea to use a number of different programs on your computer.

Regards,
Art.