antivirus protection

[Wes Tausend]

Originally Posted by vector1

mine ran out and need to renew, looked and thought the subject had been discussed but couldn't find anything.

what is the best stuff out there without slowing the pc down too much. seen a few norton recommendations.

thanks

I need to do the same thing. I think I got a deal on Norton Internet Security from Office Depot ($20) that I will probably try. There seems to be such an overload of bad stuff out there, that the time and sophistication of anti-virus software is getting to be a bit much. Still, the anti-virusware is often overcome.

Even the Netbook addition trialware on my netbook now, is slower than molasses. With all the daily cock-eyed slow loading program updates for Java and Acrobat etc, I'm tempted to surf with one of my other solid-state netbooks without anti-virusware and just re-install the OS every morning. It couldn't take much longer than daily updates and pokey incoming scans. There used to be a neat Windows 98 program that did just that. It automatically started over with an identical clean slate after every re-boot, but I forget what it was called.

Wes
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[Ron61]

If you are going to go with the whole security suite the Norton's 360 seems to be pretty good but it is big and takes space. I just use the AVG Anti Virus program as I already have firewalls and screening for the other things. I used to use McAfee until they came out with that 2010 version which was worthless. Maybe they have got it working now, but when it first came out it wouldn't update the virus definitions automatically and would hang the computer most of the time when you tried to update them manually. After uninstalling and re-installing it a few times I got rid of it.

Ron