Alright computer geeks!

[chevydeerhunter]

My Norton Internet Security subscription is up and I'm in the market for a new IS program. Norton is fine, but it's a HUGE resource hog. Does anybody run something better than Norton?

 

[Owens]

For anti-virus, try Avast. Get it at Avast.com. Best of all, it's free, is updated real regular.

Thats also all I run, other than the Xp firewall and my network firewall.

 

[SIG_Fiend]

Whatever you do, don't waste your time with Mcaffee. It's been awhile since I used it but, it's a horrible program. It's incredibly memory intensive and just doesn't work as well as other programs I've used in the past (Norton is quite a bit better if you can believe that).

 

[phatcyclist]

For anti-virus, try Avast. Get it at Avast.com. Best of all, it's free, is updated real regular.

Thats also all I run, other than the Xp firewall and my network firewall.

I've been using Avast on my PCs for a few years with no problems. I highly recommend it.

 

[Hobie Dog]

Avast! Good stuff. Argh!

 

[The Kicker Guy]

AVG is free as well and works really well.

 

[glock34insa]

avast is free and its the best one out there

 

[DEFKON99]

Personally I would say Avast as well I've been running it for over 3 years now and haven't had to format my system since.

As for my experience ive been in the Tech game for going on 9 years and i must say theres alot of free junk out there but Avast just does its job and shuts the hell up unlike alot of those free ones that bug the hell out of you while your trying to get stuff done like mcaffee.

Its free, Stable, and get the job done. I personally like the Boot scan which it can perform before the Os actually boots.

so yea Avast

Also any you guys feel free to Pm me with any Computer related issues im willing to help.

Thanks
Rudy

 

[Longtooths]

I like trendmicro and AVG.

 

[kingofwylietx]

I changed from Norton to Windows Live Onecare. It doesn't comsume near the resources as Norton and has worked great since I started using it (approx 8 months ago).

 

[DEFKON99]

I changed from Norton to Windows Live Onecare. It doesn't comsume near the resources as Norton and has worked great since I started using it (approx 8 months ago).

Not too familiar with Onecare what is it 50 bucks a year ? You running Vista ?

 

[308nato]

I have been using AVG free edition for a while now and it has worked
great so far. Always upgrading and it caught a Trojan last night and
fixed it right away.

 

[DrBart2]

I have been using AVG free edition for a while now and it has worked
great so far. Always upgrading and it caught a Trojan last night and
fixed it right away.

I have been using AVG free for over a year now and have had no problems. It has stopped many a virus. I use it on 9 different computers.

 

[krazykat]

I use AVG for anti-virus, Ad-Aware for spyware, and Zone Alarm for a firewall. All are good programs and all are free. All three are recommended by the Computer goddess -- Kim Kommando.

 

[mac79912]

I have the Mcafee.It is garbage.I am waiting for the subsciption to run out.

 

[kingofwylietx]

Not too familiar with Onecare what is it 50 bucks a year ? You running Vista ?

It's a fairly new Microsoft product. I'm not a MS fan, but it utilizes much less of my systems resources compared to Norton. It is $50 a year, but you can use it on up to 3 computers. We're currently running it at home and at the office with XP.

 

[JKTex]

Another vote for AVG here. I just renewed a multi-license for 2 years and upgraded to 8.1.

It's cheap enough and is well worth the license fee for the full IS package over unsupported anti-virus only Free version. You can try a full version for 30 days too.

2 years license renewal for 2 PC's is only $64 with the upgrade.

 

[onac255]

Another vote for Avast, been using it for 3 years on all my computers and no complaints yet.

 

[Cobra]

I've been using AVG for about eight years. I just downloaded AVG 8.0 last week, it comes in the free edition now. It also includes AVG Anti Virus now as well. Nicer interface this time around.

 

[chevydeerhunter]

I didn't see any sort of parental control on any of the mentioned programs other than Norton. I emailed AVG about it, but haven't heard from them yet.