hi all - i need advice.........

my parents are very inexperienced with computers and really need some antivirus software to protect their new pc. i've always used norton and have never had any problems using it so suggestesd that they just get that. however my dad decided to 'ask around at work' and few people said they'd had a few problems with norton so now my folks are convinced that they want some antivirus software but are refusing to use norton!!

anyone got any suggestions on other antivirus software thats got a good reputation?

anything to stop my mother complaining about her computer over the phone to me would be a god send!!!

Adaware
Spybot

These are both good for fighting spyware

Mcaffee
Panda
Nod32

These are good for fighting Viruses.

I tried using Mccaffe but found it so crap I took it back for a refund. It kept locking my PC up and stopping it starting. :mad:

Since then I've found AVG which is free to individual users at the mo. It's really good because it keeps itself up-to-date and frequently scans my PC for viruses. It's found a few and got rid of them stright away - never had any prob's since! :)

Have a look and good luck! -

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

I use AVG at home. It's free!

Details here :

http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/

I particularly like the scheduler which means it stays up to date.

Nomme

Make that 3 votes for AVG.

If you want a full set of security software, you can do a lot worse than...

AVG Free
Spybot Search & Destroy
Spyware Guardian
Sygate Personal Firewall

If anyone suggests ZoneAlarm, nod, smile & run away...

Actually, on that note, What Free firewall do people find the best?

tell them to go to avast.com web site download the software for free {home adition}it costantly up dates itself just leaveit to do its job and do a virus scan once a week hopr this helps them:clap:

I used to be a big fan of AVG but have gone off it recently as it has missed quite a few viruses. Now use F-Prot, mainly because it is tiny and uses about a 1/4 of the resources Norton and similar do.

I use AVG and Adaware - no problems and it seems to work very nicely.

The AVG stuff also integrates with Outlook and checks the mail as well.

Nice.

Joe

Originally posted by march
I used to be a big fan of AVG but have gone off it recently as it has missed quite a few viruses. Now use F-Prot, mainly because it is tiny and uses about a 1/4 of the resources Norton and similar do.

We found the same of AVG. Another decent free one is AntiVir.

http://www.free-av.com/

I use AVG7 and Sygate personal firewall.
Ad-aware, Spybot search and destroy, Spyware blaster and Spywareguard.

No spyware.....No malware......No viruses :thumbsup:

Find them (and a shed full more) Here (http://www.cbttechs.com/forums/showthread.php?t=277)

I use Norton, Windows Firewall, Windows Spyware Remover & Spybot Search & Destroy. Got rid of quite a lot of spyware recently and a few viruses. No problems with this lot yet.

Nod32 for virus killing and Agitnum Outpost firewall.
Superb software.

I use norton antivirus, and windows firewall. My computer is always ON and connected, but nothing ever gets through and thats with a web server + pandora server runing all the time.
As for spyware I dont use Internet Explorer so i dont get any :D, i use FireFox instead ( evereyone shuld try FireFox, it brings joy back to the internet)

thanks folks - will be going to visit them this weekend and put one of the suggested ones on - trust me if they try and do it they'll only kill their computer again!

ta very much for all your advice