Internet security

[Lysander]

........I'm on Mint Linux........

That the one that's a Sheep instead of the Penguin??

I binned AVG at its last iteration- really slow and bloated, threw up false positives and missed real ones.........It was a good programme afore that, but as usual, it got effed up in the need for 'improvement'...........the Trek effect!!

 

[tintin40]

The wife runs Kaspersky on her Vista

 

[mattbrown]

+1 for avast under windows 7

 

[outlander]

Bullguard is considered something of a joke in the computer support community, and is probably best avoided.

So how bad is bullguard? I've Just download bullguards 9.0 60 day trial to see what it's like

 

[Splatter Paint]

Tesco was doing the complete Norton kit for 3 PCs for £24 last time I went in.

When I try to download the free Malwarebytes software I get relocated to another site:

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Ma ... 86760019/1

is it safe to download from there?

SP

 

[perry]

I use firestarter firewall on my xubuntu . The two windows machines in the house are kept happy with Avast and I've never had a problem with it .

 

[Kentphil]

AVG has been good for me. I run Win XP.

 

[Prometheus]

I never used to use anything at all but i'm with barclays online banking and they now give the complete Kaspersky internet suite free for customers so I thought that I would give it a try. I'm actually pretty impressed so far. It doesn't seem to have too much of a memory overhead and it's pretty comprehensive. It also comes with some pretty cool tools for checking the software that you have loaded and alerts you to certain versions of programs which have dangerous weaknesses. For example I was running Adobe acrobat reader version 8. I hadn't bothered to upgrade it because it was working fine for everything I needed to view and I can't see the point in updating everything for the sake of it. If it aint broke scenario. Anyway Kaspersky alerted me to a fault which had been found in that particular version which allowed possible external access to your PC from a remote source :shock: . Simple solution was to upgrade to the new version which Adobe had fixed the issue. I would never had known this had it not been for Kaspersky. It also found some Java.exe version which also had known security issues. there are other tools for tuning your PC security which seem sensible and worth doing, ie not the usual dribble that some apps give. I used to be an IT manager so i'm not a luddite . Anyway if your with Barclays I would defo go for it, the version that they give you is licensed for 3 machines too. Pretty cool I think.

[/rant]
Dave.

 

[thel33ter]

Nortons good but the newer ones are very memory heavy, My dad used AVG and Ad-Aware and his pc stayed fine. Ubuntu is the way to go though, boots in less that a minute on a 7ish year old pc and you don't need antivirus.

 

[dyna-ti]

Mines free with my service provider.Its F Secure.
I though everybody had security this way :?

I use spybot and adaware if i fancy a rummage in my system,I've yet to have a problem :?