Norton 360 - Replacement suggestions?

[chrisjones]

Hi,
When I bought wifes PC about a year ago it came bundled with Norton 360. Our year is nearly up and I don't fancy paying out (about £70?) to carry on with the 'subscription'.
Ive seen Avast been bounced around quite a few forums, is it any good? Do you have any other suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

[bopdude]

Microsoft security essentials, freebie and very good

Originally Posted by bopdude

Microsoft security essentials, freebie and very good

Just scrubbed the trial of NIS 2010 for MSE - all good so far, so another vote for MSE!

nothing but good words from me to

[Mick Fisher]

My daughters just started using MSE and seems happy with it.

I will be giving it a look for my notebook when my Eset sub runs out in a month or so.

[Welshchris]

Avast is a good one.

[Matth]

Friday - www.giveawayoftheday.com
Online Armor ++ free on the day - a decent firewall with a rather so-so antivirus (Ikarus engine does very poorly in VB100).
Not sure if you could disable the AV componnent, and use firewall/webcontrol of that, with Avast or MSE for Antivirus.

[rogerdraig]

i use this on several computers

http://www.comodo.com/home/internet-...t-security.php

it can take a few days of reading the notifications and choosing to always allow but so far its caught everything that's been thrown at it

the Comodo AV suffers from dishing out a hell of a lot of false positives. Aslo the defense and security can get really infuriating if you actually want to use your machine lol The firewall seems ok though

[Rockabilly Spike]

http://www.av-comparatives.org/image...ummary2009.pdf

take a look at this for unbiased tests on the latest AVs and internet security software

[Rik]

Originally Posted by bopdude

Microsoft security essentials, freebie and very good

What he said.

Its surprisingly good for a MS Security application, looks like they finally learnt after One Care.

I use it here as well.

[tweetiepooh]

I never buy renews for Norton. Far, far cheaper to buy a new boxed version and just enter the key.

For example, I just bought 3PC version of Norton IS 2010 for around £19. Boxed.
Also remember that you get the new version free during the subscription period, so if 2011 comes out I get that too.

[roger skillin]

Never use Norton, it user way too much resources and slow your computer down, AVG Free is a good one

[Matty_]

Originally Posted by roger skillin

Never use Norton, it user way too much resources and slow your computer down, AVG Free is a good one

When was the last time you used Norton/Symantec?

They have cleaned up there act as far as resource usage goes. No AV catches everything so you must use a layered approach.

[Dukefever]

Originally Posted by roger skillin

Never use Norton, it user way too much resources and slow your computer down, AVG Free is a good one

I second AVG for a really useful and silent Anti virus. Its Free too

Duke