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Originally Posted by levig
my opinion about Norton and MCaffee is the same... hate them both as they are both memory hogs... prefer the setup AVG and ZoneAlarm and both are freebies if wanted but you lose a bit of the functionality tho...other then that you could use Avast as your virus scanner which is just as good or some say better then AVG 
just dont use Mcaffee my previous experiences with it was that it let some nasty virusses go through my system and I had to rebuild it again that was the last time I ever use that again |
I agre with levig about McAfee - it's another resource hog. It also tends to produce similar email problems to those that Norton does: I simply couldn't send emails with attachments from the machine I had it on a couple of years back. One thing in its favour as against Norton: at least it uninstalls easily.
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Originally Posted by homealone
Another vote for ZoneAlarm Security Suite, here, although it is quite expensive to buy outright, you can usually get some discount upgrading a trial version.
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Zone Alarm with Antivirus (as opposed to Zone Alarm Security Suite) is very cheap: about £20 to buy (online) and about £13.50 a year to renew. The antivirus component comes from Computer Associates and generally seems very highly thought of. It's very non-demanding in terms of computer resources: slows things down a bit (not a lot) when you're running a scan, but in normal use I don't even bother deactivating it for games - just doesn't seem to make any noticeable difference.