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Security software - free better?

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  • GunJack
    GunJack Posts: 11,837 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    waddler, love the new avatar, you are showing extremely good musical taste :)
    ......Gettin' There, Wherever There is......

    I have a dodgy "i" key, so ignore spelling errors due to "i" issues, ...I blame Apple :D
  • waddler_8
    waddler_8 Posts: 3,588 Forumite
    Hey Ho! :D
  • Economist_
    Economist_ Posts: 2 Newbie
    Nod32 is the most prized one...
  • mr_fishbulb
    mr_fishbulb Posts: 5,224 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Economist_ wrote: »
    Nod32 is the most prized one...
    http://www.eset.co.uk/Home/NOD32-Antivirus

    Indeed very highly rated.

    I was lucky enough to get a 1 year sub to ESET Internet Security (the AV part is the NOD32 engine). So at the moment I'm using that, but if it wasn't free then I wouldn't used paid-for security software.
  • Dave_C_2
    Dave_C_2 Posts: 1,827 Forumite
    Avira (real time) + malwarebytes (monthly)

    The pain was getting rid of the free Panda A/V after the free subscription ran out.

    Dave
  • HeadAboveWater
    HeadAboveWater Posts: 3,941 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    I've been using Avast and Malwarebytes for years and never had any problems.
    Wealth is what you're left with when all your money runs out
  • robmar0se
    robmar0se Posts: 1,328 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    DUTR wrote: »
    I still use mcafee after using avast and avg, that said I can get it off a well known auction site for around £6 so I'm happy to pay that :cool:

    Mcafee regularly does comes out very low in most reviews, also find when using virustotal that Mcafee rarely is on the ball, most of the free ones regularly come out higher, including dare I say it, AVG 2012.
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    If you decide to to use a free AV i can't understand then running a paid for AV on top. Whenever I have had two AVs running it has degraded performance massively.

    Avast and Malwarebytes now, both pretty good IMO -well they let me know when they spot /block things and appear to do something with them.

    McAfee was the worst, IME, of the ones I coughed up for.
    Kapersky did find stuff that was causing problems after AVG didn't appear to spot it back in 2010.
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • baby_frogmella
    baby_frogmella Posts: 1,556 Forumite
    pineapple wrote: »
    Norton being a case in point.

    Yoo Hoo! wake up its no longer 2004, its now 2012;)
  • pineapple
    pineapple Posts: 6,934 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    baby_frogmella wrote: »
    Yoo Hoo! wake up its no longer 2004, its now 2012;)
    Oops yes you're right!
    Still living with my bad experiences of yester-year. :D
    That said I would never, ever go back to paid - especially now that I am using sandboxie in addition to my freebies.

    http://www.sandboxie.com/
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