corsadonk
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Can anyone recommend a good one?
Cheers.
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Bart
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Clamav is free but haven't used it in years.
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Dom
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Clamav if you're after something for OSX (crud under Windows); Avast for Windows.
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Nismo
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MSE works for me.
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andy_mk3
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I use NOD32 which is awesome. I think MSE is one of the best free ones though. The likes of AVG and Avast etc have now got very bloated and slow systems down with all the extra crap that comes with them now.
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Sam
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I've spent most of yesterday afternoon removing all traces of some 'ransomware' on a machine supposedly protected by that ESET software... 
MSE is probably the best of the freebies.
For the sake of £20 or so, I'd buy Norton Internet Security. Most people's machines I remove viruses from, I'd say 9 out of 10 of them have either had expired software or use shitty free anti virus software.
All of them now have Norton on them, not one of them have ever come back to me with the same problems (and I know most of them look at porn or download torrents etc).
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
For the sake of £20 or so, I'd buy Norton Internet Security.
How could anyone recommend Symantec?
Next you'll be recommending AOL as an ISP 
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evilrob
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I use ESET Smart Security on my Windows machines - £21.99 from Amazon for 3 PCs:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ESET-Smart-Security-User-Year/dp/B005NPFOBM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361715671&sr=8-1
Says v5 on the box but you can use the key with the latest version v6 downloadable directly from eset.co.uk.
Has a tiny memory footprint and uses hardly any system resources so no discernable performance issues, unlike the more bloated ones like Bitdefender which generally runs like a dog.
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John
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ESET antivirus is great at viruses but doesn't get malware. The smart security version like Rob says catches the malware.
Norton still make one of the worst bits of software out there, causes more problems than it prevents.
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by andy_mk3
The likes of AVG and Avast etc have now got very bloated and slow systems down with all the extra crap that comes with them now.
AVG is pretty bloaty, Avast isn't too bad. And Avast is about the best of the bunch when it comes to free.
Bitdefender is supposedly one of the best all-rounders if you go by reviews on AV Comparatives (http://www.av-comparatives.org/comparativesreviews/).
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chris_uk
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AVG free i use, never have a problem.
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Sam
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Whatever works for you lot I guess.
Norton used to be shit many years ago yes, but has been fine for the past say 4 or 5 years.
It also doesn't take an age and a day to install/remove unlike some of the others recommended on here.
For example - this ESET I had to uninstall yesterday, required a password for removal.  Unfortunately for my customer, the idiot that installed it for them didn't have the correct password to give them so I had to resort to some registry hacking in order to be able to uninstall it.
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evilrob
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
this ESET I had to uninstall yesterday, required a password for removal. Unfortunately for my customer, the idiot that installed it for them didn't have the correct password to give them so I had to resort to some registry hacking in order to be able to uninstall it.
That's hardly the software's fault, though, is it?
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Sam
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No, I was giving an example for my 'doesn't take an age and a day to install/remove unlike some of the others recommended on here' comment.
The fact that my customer's PC had that ESET Smart Security software you recommend which didn't do anything to stop this ransomware from being installed didn't win my vote for it, however.
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Y869 SRA
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I've been using Avast! for about 6 years now, never had anything get thru it.
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deano87
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Kaspersky all singing all dancing is free if you're with Barclays.
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