What Security do you use?

karlb_3

Hi All

I use:

Windows Live OneCare (Anti-virus, spyware, firewall, backup and tune-up).
Spybot
Ad-Aware
Advanced WindowsCare Personal (This is the free edition)
McAffee SiteAdvisor (Free for home and non-profit organisations)
Firefox 3

On my home computer, I have Microsoft Update set to automatically download and install updates, but I also check once a month on the update website for any updates that aren't automatically installed.

All the best
KarlB

gareth1608

Just wanted to post our experiences with McAfee to warn others.
We had an e-mail yesterday from McAfee telling us that they had taken £50 off our credit card for our renewal. We had no warning this was going to happen, they had used the details of our card on file (we last paid a one off fee almost two years ago!), and our software was telling us that our renewal wasn't due until the beginning of November!
When we rang up they explained this by some lies about 'old software' and 'new software' and that our system is sorted until November 2009. They never apologised for taking the money, but did refund it all. According to them we agreed to all this when we signed up (despite us knowing we hadn't because we look out for that small print!).
Be warned if you have McAfee - you must ask them to remove your card details, even if you paid it all in one lump sum, and you must ask them to remove the automatic renewal request too.
Hope this saves some money and hassle!

elfreako

Looking at the posts above I can assume many of you are using Norton Antivirus, it's good to have but like Mcafee both have very bad drawbacks and that is it uses a lot of Ram and processing power. Ever noticed how much faster your computer is when the anti virus is switched off?

I would recommend Nod32 is it created by ESET, you might have seen the bill boards around the UK recently.

It automatically updates and runs in the background without using a lot of processing power or ram. :j

aliEnRIK

elfreako wrote: »

Looking at the posts above I can assume many of you are using Norton Antivirus, it's good to have but like Mcafee both have very bad drawbacks and that is it uses a lot of Ram and processing power. Ever noticed how much faster your computer is when the anti virus is switched off?

I would recommend Nod32 is it created by ESET, you might have seen the bill boards around the UK recently.

It automatically updates and runs in the background without using a lot of processing power or ram. :j

Thats one of the few i've not had any experience with actually. Is it free? (Or a version)

elfreako

It's not free but as cheap as the rest. Very good and searches through files realtime. Doing antivrus checks is minimum.

elfreako

Here is the address

http://www.eset.com/

Geoffo_M

Avast (av) Online Armor (firewall) SUPERAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware (both malware). All seem to work ok Geoff (sorry I typed this in tabular form, but it just seems to appear in one continuous line!)

Davesnave

gareth1608 wrote: »

Just wanted to post our experiences with McAfee to warn others.
We had an e-mail yesterday from McAfee telling us that they had taken £50 off our credit card for our renewal. We had no warning this was going to happen, they had used the details of our card on file (we last paid a one off fee almost two years ago!), and our software was telling us that our renewal wasn't due until the beginning of November!
When we rang up they explained this by some lies about 'old software' and 'new software' and that our system is sorted until November 2009. They never apologised for taking the money, but did refund it all. According to them we agreed to all this when we signed up (despite us knowing we hadn't because we look out for that small print!).
Be warned if you have McAfee - you must ask them to remove your card details, even if you paid it all in one lump sum, and you must ask them to remove the automatic renewal request too.
Hope this saves some money and hassle!

Confirm this happened to me too, except it only cost me £25 for renewal. I have a note to myself to sort this (and them) out before it happens again next year. I don't see how I can bargain with them if they've already got the money. The year before I got it all for a tenner!

aliEnRIK

elfreako wrote: »

Here is the address

http://www.eset.com/

Cheers mate ~ Ill stick with my free software personally. But to be fair if I WAS to pay for it I think I would certainly give this a go as I HATE Norton and Mcafee

Thankies

Millionaire

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Cheers mate ~ Ill stick with my free software personally. But to be fair if I WAS to pay for it I think I would certainly give this a go as I HATE Norton and Mcafee

Thankies

If your going to buy you cannot go wrong with Eset. Its the best AV suite I've ever used. Very lite on resources, Hardly has any effect on system performance and one of the best detections rates around.

Liked it so much I purchased the Eset Smart Security suite. Puts the likes of Norton and Mcafee to shame.