Anti virus?

Question for anyone that knows.

Got my laptop with 1 months free anti virus with 'McAfee', due to expire. Should I pay £34.99 to keep it for a year or should I download a free one like 'Avast'.

Whats better, don't mind paying just wondered.

Thanks

I don't think the free ones have as much cover as the full ones. I use ESET but I can't remember off hand how much it is per year.

Mind you, on top of that I also have the free editions of Superantispyware & Malwarebytes.

http://www.superantispyware.com/
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

we use AVG and it is free, we always used to get viruses cause the boys play on line games, so far touch wood ...................

you get the basic free, which is what we have, then if you like you can upgrade

Good luck

I know alot of people who use free ones but i prefer to buy one if you got a bad virus and you cant get it off your pc/laptop you can get them to to remove it i dont think you get that with free ones

Steve wrote:I know alot of people who use free ones but i prefer to buy one if you got a bad virus and you cant get it off your pc/laptop you can get them to to remove it i dont think you get that with free ones

That's why I got ESET. The others are just a belt &braces type thing - they pick up little bits here & there like tracking cookies etc.

I use Avast! free antivirus and never had a problem.It automatically updates and pops up telling you that its updated.

I always buy my anti-virus software. Covers you for sooooo much more, and with technology these days I'd personally rather be safe than sorry.

I use Trend Micro

Hi all, Well i own my own IT company, id say AVG is by farr the best for free, or if you don't mind the £30 lifetime purchase go with that, i can honestly say 80%/90% of clients that call me saying My computer is slow or has issues its due to McAfee, Norton or Kaparky. If you need a hand installation any of them give me a PM or something, id be happy to help for free, we even have remote support should you need to.

Scott

mr2essions wrote:Hi all, Well i own my own IT company, id say AVG is by farr the best for free, or if you don't mind the £30 lifetime purchase go with that, i can honestly say 80%/90% of clients that call me saying My computer is slow or has issues its due to McAfee, Norton or Kaparky. If you need a hand installation any of them give me a PM or something, id be happy to help for free, we even have remote support should you need to.

Scott

Your av=bout a month too late paid £35 for Mcafee, its been ok so far but next year I will change to a free one, thanks for the advise

Aww Well you know where i am now should anything ells come to mind re your PC. Sorry i would have messages earlier if i was a member back then

i prefer paid ones

My vote goes to.....Avg free,

Never had any problems,

the Votes are in and have been counted... AVG... We have a winner

if you lot like AVG, its garbage! i heard alot of bad thing about it

Lol it has bad press, this is normally down to the user installing all the extra stuff that comes with it OR users installing it along side there old one and complely messing up there machines.. ive installed it on around 700 machines in the last 10 years and had only 2 machines that didnt like it.

I think its pretty sweet for a free-bee

If you want free why not try Microsoft one , apparently good enough :

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/products/security-essentials/download

That just reminded me I need to pay for the pc

I use AVG but I paid for it. It's great. LOL How you guys get it for free?

avast is brilliant thats what i use on ym laptop

I was told that the free ones aren'y very good if you log on to a lot of different sites. Don't know how true that is.

i wouldn't have a free one....

janey wrote:

That just reminded me I need to pay for the pc

I used Norton and havent had any slowness, but i have a super machine

Norton is by far the worst and if you know what your doing the 'free' ones are the best we have avg currently

My work one is avg & there haven't been any probs with it.

i wouldn't have any free virus on my pc i just dont trust them

i put the free avg on mine when i was having probs with norton i remove norton and put the free on and it found tons of trojans and mal ware norton hadnt stopped and my pc got a lot faster .
haha just coz its free dont mean its bad lol

I have never paid for antivirus and never had a problem.when i first got my laptop,they installed norton and it let everything in.I have used avast free ever since and everything has been sweet

most thing have malware these free virus or firewalls always pick up false positive i would rather pay for something that get good updated then a update no one really care about becasue they not making nor money from.

i would never recommend free virus / firewalls becasue i seen what hackers can do.

Lisa & Cairo wrote:I have never paid for antivirus and never had a problem.when i first got my laptop,they installed norton and it let everything in.I have used avast free ever since and everything has been sweet

Oh .. should I be worried?? - I've always used & paid for Norton and never had any issues ~ and they do seem to have good cover , with free online back up too :/

My computer insurance allows me a free clean up of my pc and virus check each year, as long as i have a paid anti virus, so i have to have one and norton was the one that i got -shrug- lol it doesn't slow my pc at all, but like i said its a super PC

I use norton too. No slowdowns here. I do have a work horse of a pc though. Perhaps if affects it but not enough to be perceived. Didn't slow any benchmarks for me.

Diffrent strokes for diffrent folkes.......
Lol.....

I also got McFee on my notebook and opted to go the paid route when the trial ended. Personally I am a loyal Symantec (Norton) user and have this on my desktop pc.

Windows security is not enough.

norton work fine on today pc it was back in the day when pc was slower they got their bad name my sister got norton she never had a problem for like 6 years

was only last year i was using norton and had a heap of problems but that was prob down to all the cr4p the little un plys on the free game sites on the net lol

nothing wrong with norton warren i may buy one next time i need to update