Best Antivirus PC World

[KeithD]

you would'ent have any now with norton

As i explained before it's a totally different animal now

It still the biggest hog of all the AV's, what has happened is computers have got faster and bigger memory so the drawbacks are absorbed by the system now.

I dumped Norton 360 last year as I noticed it hogging my quadcore with 4GB memory, strange how a lot of resources were released when I unistalled it.

Avita was recently voted the best, but it caused issues on my system.

[les_taxi]

It still the biggest hog of all the AV's, what has happened is computers have got faster and bigger memory so the drawbacks are absorbed by the system now.

I dumped Norton 360 last year as I noticed it hogging my quadcore with 4GB memory, strange how a lot of resources were released when I unistalled it.

Avita was recently voted the best, but it caused issues on my system.

It gets many positive reviews I am only talking about norton 2010 a/v

It uses less resources than nod 32 long hailed as the top a/v and my previous favourite.
I do appreciate that nearly all a/v come out top in various byassed reviews and it depends on the reviewer of course,but the main thing which blighted norton was it's memory usage and without using the norton removal tool damned near impossible to remove.

They are things of the past now and it's a good piece of software-I would not tell you it was if it was rubbish,

In between taxi driving i repair or format at least 1 pc a week and since i enjoy my hobby i have experimented with all a/v software out there and i
never thought i'd reccomend norton but who would have thought one day lots of people in uk would be driving a skoda

[Conifer]

Now I'm more confuse which antivirus to use. I read different reviews, comments and feedbacks, best recommended ones, etc. but seems to no avail since they're trying to compete to be the best.

Anyhow, thanks a lot for your replies. For me I always have antivirus installed in my machine since the time it got virus. Sometimes I’m not careful in clicking and opening unknown messages and links so having antivirus installed at least helps in the prevention.

Oh, I already have McAfee antivirus installed, but recently I installed AVG cos it’s the best recommended one (from what I read). I didn’t have problem with AVG before unlike with Norton that takes space, slows down and creates strange sound while on the process of scanning. I have both AVG and McAfee running together, but only use as needed. Along with is the Registry Booster 2, top rated registry cleaner that automatically scans every time I start my PC.

But do you think that having two antiviruses loaded on my machine can cause problems? This is new to me, and would like to try if they’re both okay to run together.

[les_taxi]

Now I'm more confuse which antivirus to use. I read different reviews, comments and feedbacks, best recommended ones, etc. but seems to no avail since they're trying to compete to be the best.

Anyhow, thanks a lot for your replies. For me I always have antivirus installed in my machine since the time it got virus. Sometimes I’m not careful in clicking and opening unknown messages and links so having antivirus installed at least helps in the prevention.

Oh, I already have McAfee antivirus installed, but recently I installed AVG cos it’s the best recommended one (from what I read). I didn’t have problem with AVG before unlike with Norton that takes space, slows down and creates strange sound while on the process of scanning. I have both AVG and McAfee running together, but only use as needed. Along with is the Registry Booster 2, top rated registry cleaner that automatically scans every time I start my PC.

But do you think that having two antiviruses loaded on my machine can cause problems? This is new to me, and would like to try if they’re both okay to run together.

no never run two a/v at the same time they will conflict with each other and dramaticaly slow your pc down.
I rest my case with norton and as ive said before it doesent do all you say above at all
If you happy with avg then run that but on its own.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but it does annoy me when it's based on old versions of software which were rubbish.

If you said to me 3 years ago what dya think of norton i'd have said total bloated crap,but that was then andi have used every a/v on the planet and nod 32,kapersky and norton are very good paid a/v.

If you dont want to pay avg is fine but not as good as the paid versions.

[Arthur Little]

Browsing through this thread, I'm amazed at the depth of knowledge that so many of my co-forumers have amassed on computers in general! As a comparative newcomer to the "world" of Information Technology, I have to confess to being largely self-taught.

For ME, it all began in 2005, when my daughter and her husband decided to replace their PC, and offered me their "old" model [circa 1999] ... on the premise that I showed at least SOME interest [previously lacking] in learning at least the "basics". Well, I DID manage to get THAT far ... but still know damn-all about the technical aspects (or "fiddlier bits" as I refer to them!) and, even though the vintage model donated, has long since been superseded by an updated Microsoft Windows 'Vista' version, I still tend to treat my [new] computer as a glorified typewriter.

Someone here, recently referred to me as the "Grandfather of the Forum" ... and I suppose I AM in a sense ... being (I think) about the second-oldest of our regular members by less than five years. So, IS it an "age thing", I wonder? DOES the fact that I belong to a generation that can remember computers in their infancy - as being large and bulky machines taking up the entire ground floor space in the offices of a Multi-National Insurance Corporation's Headquarters, for example - enter into it? And nowadays, of course, children seem better-equipped to master the intricacies of technology than they are at learning the '3rs' or reciting the alphabet. But is this necessarily a good thing?