Free anti virus prog?

[susie r]

I have just upgraded my o/s to xp and find my Norton Anti Virus isn't compatible!!! Can anyone reccomend a decent alternative.....preferably a free one!:)

[Russ]

Try here (http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php) once the site has come back of course! :D

Which version of Norton is that btw?

edit - Actually it's here (http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_dwnl_free.php) :D

[susie r]

it came with my windows 98 installation, this is what it says in its properties (Win95-to-WinNT Migration Dll, Win95 Side)???????
Thanks for the link..............is AVG any good?

[Martin]

I don't think the older versions of Norton were compatable with XP:) I had a similar prob. I switched to McAfree but i think it was 20 quid.;)

[Russ]

Not sure about the older versions of Norton....

As for AVG, for what it is, it's supposed to be pretty good.

[dingosar]

I have used both the free version of AVG and the paid for Pro version and both work ok for me :)

[iadom]

You get what you pay for,or don't:(

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?avg.xml

[darkangel]

Originally posted by iadom
You get what you pay for,or don't:(

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?avg.xml at last someone who agrees with me on this, the detection engine on this is nearly 10 years old I've seen it let some very common viruses past, seems to pickup somethings but it's unpredictability make it a very bad choice, remember most reviews that test this are done by ordinary people virus scanner need more complex testing and most reviewer are not up to the task of testing this software correctly so it does get it good reviews unfortunately

[Theodoric]

Originally posted by iadom
You get what you pay for,or don't:(

http://www.virusbtn.com/vb100/archives/products.xml?avg.xml
I realise that if you pay £10 a month for this and £10 a month for that, that the grand total total soon becomes ridiculous but, personally, a decent anti-virus software is the one piece of software I'm always willing to pay for to make sure that I get somthing up to date.

I use Norton AV (running under Win XP; came installed with my Dell computer). I don't know how much it would cost to buy, but it only costs me £14/year to keep it updated.

[paulyoung666]

be very careful with avg it has caused me some very serious probs , buy yourself a shiny copy of norton 2003 , well worth it my mate ;)

[imback]

I use AVG on my XP machine with no problems, and becaue some people on .com said it sucked I scanned my PC with both NAV and McAfee and there were no virus anywhere, so AVG had done what I wanted it to:)

I just check for updates once a week, and in my paranoid moments do a scan of the system on symantec.com

[Steve H]

Norton 2002, and 2003 both work sweet on XP (Home).. You know where you can get them.

[darkangel]

Originally posted by Steve_NTL
Norton 2002, and 2003 both work sweet on XP (Home).. You know where you can get them. yep here http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006JIN9/ref=sr_aps_software_1_1/202-8899522-5655024 ;)
nav 2002 has some problems with xp i've heard

[Maggy]

I'm now using Eset's NOD32 http://www.esetsoftware.co.uk/ which has done consistantly well at the site iadom posted a link to.
Seems to be doing ok so far.


Incog.:)

[bopdude]

Originally posted by Steve_NTL
Norton 2002, and 2003 both work sweet on XP (Home).. You know where you can get them.

Have to agree :p no problem here with live update and all *ahem

[danfromNthell]

I have had both Norton 2002 and 2003 running on my XP pro system no problem.

The Norton firewall has been quirky but all cool appart from that....


Dan

[ntluser]

I found Norton conflicted with some of my hardware and replaced it with a free program called AntiVir which has worked OK so far and can be found here http://www.free-av.com/

There are also online sites like the Symantec Security check where you can test the security of your machine. The Shields Up tests at grc.com are good as are those at the PC Pitstop site and the PC flank site.

I use Agnitums's free firewall program "Ourpost" which is pretty useful.

If your machine passes all those tests it's pretty secure.