Antivirus

babes21

Hello everyone

I've just had a new laptop, can anyone recommend any antivirus programs which i can install to protect it?

Any replies will be appreciated x

espresso

Why don't you have a read here.

babes21

Thank you, will install AVG .

Reluctant_spender

Or if you prefer a paid for Anti Virus product I recommend Nod32.

Installed on a number of laptops, good protection and very light on system resources

infernalaffairs

I was trying to decide which antivirus to use myself, after the help of others on this board I went with AVG as it scans emails whereas my other consideration, Antivir doesn't.

esuhl

I had a look at loads of free antivirus reviews recently and AVG and AntiVir seemed to be the most highly recommended... Actually Avast was too, but I can't stand its user interface!

hobo28

AntiVir a few months ago was reviewed by PCPro and got one of the highest detection rates for all the packages they tested. Certainly was the highest "free" program.

I heartily recommend it.

espresso

babes21 wrote: »

Thank you, will install AVG .

While other posters ague about which package is "the best", just remember to fully uninstall any virus package that is is already installed before installing AVG. Look also at the other recomendations in the link above and get yourself free firewall/anti-spyware protection as well.

isofa

hobo28 wrote: »

AntiVir a few months ago was reviewed by PCPro and got one of the highest detection rates for all the packages they tested. Certainly was the highest "free" program. I heartily recommend it.

However AntiVir's biggest flaw is not active e-mail scanning, which to me is essential in an anti-virus product, as that can be one of the main sources of infection, especially to unwary users. With that into consideration in the PC Pro group test AVG should have won the best free scanner - there were discussions on the PC Pro forum about this too :beer:

Shambler

I had the full version of AVG but every time I got a virus it either didn't see the virus or could not delete/quarantine it!

Using Eset NOD32 now and it is much more reliable.

superscaper

isofa wrote: »

However AntiVir's biggest flaw is not active e-mail scanning, which to me is essential in an anti-virus product, as that can be one of the main sources of infection, especially to unwary users. With that into consideration in the PC Pro group test AVG should have won the best free scanner - there were discussions on the PC Pro forum about this too :beer:

They also did some security suite labs recently. No freebies, but interesting comparisons especially with the paid version of AVG's suite. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/labs/160/security-suites/products.html

I've personally got Eset Smart Security.