Which antivirus software?

[GColdtimer]

I have norton at the moment which is about to expire. Now I am self employed and have to PAY for stuff like that, am wondering if there are any cheaper options that are just as good.

Thanks

I have recently downloaded AVG which was recommended to me by Dell. Search for "grisoft" and you should find the site. Not sure how good it is yet but it is FREE!!!

I've used AVG for a couple of years & I'm vary happy with it. You can get it here
The rest of the site (& the magazine) are very useful too.

You will probably find your pc speeds up once you've got rid of norton btw.

a third for AVG... also use the pay version for my work.

Do you know how much it costs for a business sophierosie? - we've been thinking og going on to it at the school I work at.

thanks, you are right rusty, my pc is soooooo slow. Norton is huge I think. Will try AVG.

AVG is wonderful fwiw, the chap who fixed our pc said the free version is more effective than either Norton or Mcaffee.

spybot search and destroy and adaware and good to have as well as avg (all free dowloads)

what about a firewall, you don't get that with the free version. Do you need one if you have a windows firewall?

Zone alarm

You can use windows firewall but, we have Zone Alarm on both the pc and the laptop, you do have to allow access but I don't find it a hassle.

I can't remember what ours was - we only needed one license as v small charity but we got a charity discount which I was very impressed with!

Just seen you are a school and I'm sure they'll give you a discount too...

Thanks -I'll try them

Don't use AVG if you have Vista. I have Avast on my PC with Vista. Both AVG and Avast are good.

Zonealarm is a good firewall.

Zonealarm, AVG and Vista are all free...

another vote for AVG here - Norton is a huge file and takes up an unbelievable amount of hard drive space.

We have loads of techy friends and they all use AVG so we do too.

AVG wins hands down. But remove all traces of Norton first, or they will fight like cat and dog. Honestly!

Why not AVG if you have Vista?

Unless they've upgraded it, its not compatible.

I have been converted, removed Norton first , it was huge about 80meg! The AVG download was so simple and is working fine.

Thanks for the tips. Off to look at the firewall now,..

I have Kaspersky which includes firewall and a wonderful ad blocker which means I see none of the things people whinge about on Mumsnet

btw I'm using AVG on Vista - seems fine so far....

hi i just tried to install AVG and it said access denied - i think i had this the other day on something else - it seems to think that im not the administrator. any one know how to change this "setting" on my system? Thanks

think settings in Control Panal - Use Accounts and levels of Privacy or something (DH at work but would know!) Would vote for AVG here as well, know thats what our IT guy says and its a free download - woudl warm against McAfee as it s l o w s the system right down, had it sold to us by a usually reputable shop and IT man said NO! Its criminally slow, expensive and doesnt actually do a lot - recommeds the free download over the to buy version too - we like the IT man (tis DH!)