MacAfee, antivirus

sebastianj

How good is this software, any help most appreciated.
seb

bsod

The salespeople in my local retail park outlet seem to love it, the atmosphere in the pc section is full of antivirus antivirus harmonics mixing with the beat of the gold plated hdmi lead sales boogie coming from the tv area.

Sadly the punters suck it up.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=67951267&postcount=2

http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php

gunte

sebastianj wrote: »

How good is this software, any help most appreciated.
seb

Not much

http://www.av-comparatives.org/dynamic-tests/

sebastianj

Perhaps I should have asked which is the cheapest all round software, I am still no wiser.
seb

wallbash

A free one.
We all have a fav. mines AVAST

sebastianj

I had Lavasoft, was not sure how I got it so I moved it to 'recycle' bin, shall I restore it?
seb

bsod

sebastianj wrote: »

Perhaps I should have asked which is the cheapest all round software, I am still no wiser.
seb

Above, there is a link to the answer in your previous antivirus thread, along with a graph which shows the detection capability of lavasoft (no better than mse) and mcafee compared to others.

sebastianj

That was a different problem with my laptop, I could not get rid of some icons and it helped. I now don't know because it will run out of its free status, so I will need something else.
seb

giraffe69

You can install any one of MSE, Avast, AVG or Avira for free. Alternatively you can pay money to Mcafee, Symantec or others if you prefer. If you bank with Barclays they will give you Kaspersky for free.