Internet security

[uno-speedo]

Stop surfing porn sites and you'll be fine

I use a few different add-ons using Firefox as my browser:

NoScript
AdBlock Plus
WOT
Ghostery

Touch wood no problems....now having said that I'll probably get one ahaha.

 

[tintin40]

My Norton stopped two virus when i clicked on a Futurama fan site. No were is 100% safe. :x

 

[cyfa2809]

i was using mcafee from sky but my mrs got a new laptop with bullguard trial on it. she also bought a year subscription to norton so i said just use bullguard until it runs out. dont have any problems with it other than a slower (not massively) startup. so now using bullguard on two laptops until it runs out then onto norton. bullguard seems fine from what i can gather...

 

[outlander]

Just picked up a oem 3 user copy of bullguard v9 from my local computer shop. Only £8

 

[REKIBorter]

Kaspersky Internet Security. Very highly recommended. Not the cheapest but if you want cheap security that is exactly what you get.

 

[dbmtb]

Am on Mcafee on all the 4 PCs in the house.

No probs so far.

 

[rosstheboss]

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.

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Dave.

HSBC are doing the same thing but with Macafee...

I use Norton 360 after getting annoyed with AVG nagging me to upgrade to the paid up version all the time and then had some slightly worrying mispelt pops up allegedly from them too. It's slowed my start up slightly which doesn't bother me too much, has saved my bacon a few times, and comes with some useful tools for your comp too. All in all, recommended from me!!

 

[Skeelsie]

Norton = wrong, please people don't ever buy it, it's as much of a resource drain as some of the Virus' it's meant to prevent. Norton and Symantec "bung" new PC manufacturers a chunky sum to make it ship on your computer. You're then stuck with a crippled PC with no full un-installer and endless threats and messages from Norton saying you need to upgrade and you're insecure. Mugs game.



With XP or Vista I'd use Nod32 or Kaspersky or free AVG if you can't work out how to get the others for free or need a legal solution.



Microsoft security essentials is free download for Windows 7 and Vista and is certainly good at not hogging resources. I use it on Win 7 and have had no bother with it, the OS on the other hand still a bit dodgy.