What Security do you use?

THE_MIDDLEMAN

angelavdavis wrote: »

Last year I upgraded my security to McAfee Security Suite package for two PCs but its new format is killing my b/f's laptop. Prior to the upgrade, his machine was perfectly adequate for the little time he spends online.

The upgrade is just about to expire and my Mum has asked me to add her into the package, her machine is also not an up to the minute model, so I am keen to see if anything else out there is going to be better and less system hungry?

Both PC's are Pentium III running XP Home. My PC is Pentium 4 running XP Pro.

Thanks

TOTALLY Agree - Just upgraded both my machines to the new McAfee and it stinks.

So slow - hogs my bandwidth, ties up the CPU all the time - takes ages to do anything and on the gaming machine it could not connect to the webpages.:eek:

So I have just got a refund from them and will try out some of the stuff on here.....

If you are about to try mcAfee for the 1st time beware.

Oh - their cust service was great got a refund in less than 12 hours from emailing them :T

Art_2

angelavdavis wrote: »

Last year I upgraded my security to McAfee Security Suite package for two PCs but its new format is killing my b/f's laptop. Prior to the upgrade, his machine was perfectly adequate for the little time he spends online.

The upgrade is just about to expire and my Mum has asked me to add her into the package, her machine is also not an up to the minute model, so I am keen to see if anything else out there is going to be better and less system hungry?

Both PC's are Pentium III running XP Home. My PC is Pentium 4 running XP Pro.

Thanks

Go for AVG, Spybot and AdAware. They will look after you and they are all free.

Regards,
Art.

chopshopjohn

I use AVG 7.5 antivirus and COMODO Firewall Pro - both are free.

Strangled

I feel so sorry for all of you......I use none as I use a Macbook :-)
However, when I used PC's I used Panda antivirus with built-in firewall and spyware detector.Approx £25 per year for 3 licenses. I use one on my daughter laptop, and just put it on 2 of my friends PC's, it found at least 2 virus's on them that AVG did'nt.

Ubergeek_3

Linux, no virii, no adware, no spyware, free software and it runs better than any MS OS

Oh and for people who like Vista’s 3D effects then check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ZtcxHUSDQ

For the record I use Ubuntu Linux with Beryl.

Regards,

Ubergeek

computerwoman

I really like that one, great, thanks now I know what I am going to put on my my sons old pc when I up grade his, thanks again and its cheaper than windows its free.
cw

nullogik

FREE KASPERSKY INTERNET SECURITY 6

I would just like to point out that Computer Shopper Magazine has Kaspersky Internet Security 6 on the cover disc with 6 months of free subscription. The cheapest version of the magazine is about £3.75 (CD) and comes with it.

Kaspersky is widely regarded as one of the best paid for AV suites around, amongst NOD32 and F-Secure.

I've used it and its been fantastic after leaving the bloated Norton package. Kaspersky runs very happily on my P3 500MHZ 256Mb laptop (Win2000) and the impact on the system has been barely noticeable - unlike Norton, ahem!

So for those who find their Norton/McAfee subscriptions running out, or wish to try a new AV, then buy a copy of Computer Shopper and give Kaspersky a go.

Enjoy!

nullogik

fgaughan

nullogik wrote: »

FREE KASPERSKY INTERNET SECURITY 6

I would just like to point out that Computer Shopper Magazine has Kaspersky Internet Security 6 on the cover disc with 6 months of free subscription. The cheapest version of the magazine is about £3.75 (CD) and comes with it.

Kaspersky is widely regarded as one of the best paid for AV suites around, amongst NOD32 and F-Secure.

I've used it and its been fantastic after leaving the bloated Norton package. Kaspersky runs very happily on my P3 500MHZ 256Mb laptop (Win2000) and the impact on the system has been barely noticeable - unlike Norton, ahem!

So for those who find their Norton/McAfee subscriptions running out, or wish to try a new AV, then buy a copy of Computer Shopper and give Kaspersky a go.

Enjoy!

nullogik

Computer shopper cost £3.75?
Seem cheap compared to other Microsoft lazen magazines.
not looked in it for years as 99% is all about Microsfoft so the computer bit confuses me ;-)

jesster_2

Hi

Wondered if anyone could help with this, not sure i've made the right choice on the old anti virus front.

Following many of the crowd on here I thought I'd try AVG so have downloaded the trial from the website. But now it seems to be making my PC run really slowly. Not from an internet point of view as that runs fine, but in terms of how quickly new windows open and how quickly it responds to mouse clicks. Is this likely to be because of the AVG download?

Art_2

jesster wrote: »

Hi

Wondered if anyone could help with this, not sure i've made the right choice on the old anti virus front.

Following many of the crowd on here I thought I'd try AVG so have downloaded the trial from the website. But now it seems to be making my PC run really slowly. Not from an internet point of view as that runs fine, but in terms of how quickly new windows open and how quickly it responds to mouse clicks. Is this likely to be because of the AVG download?

I've used AVG for some time and never found any problem with it. Try uninstalling AVG and see if this solves the problem. Then try downloading it again.

Regards,
Art.