What is a good Viruse protection?

[harry 48]

link removed , what was wrong with it , i took wot out

[Quantos]

I prefer Avast.

[Caramelo]

I'll have to give it a try.  Has anyone had trouble getting AVG completely off their pc?

[Karnac]

Here's the AVG removal tool.

http://www.avg.com/download-tools

[Buzzintx]

Avast here also....

[Caramelo]

Thanks Karnac.

[camerongray]

On my main PC I use Kaspersky Internet Security and Avast Home on all the others.

Cameron Gray

[supermonkey]

On my main PC I use Kaspersky Internet Security and Avast Home on all the others.

Cameron Gray

I wonder if you could advise me then - have used avg in the past, but prefer Avast. I had pondered trying Avira but not tried it yet. My bank are offering Kaspersky (AV only) for free so I wondered whether you felt it was better, faster & less resource hungry?

cheers

[harry 48]

i have tried avg , macafee , norton  and have kept with avira

[2x3i5x]

I would say, if you have one antivirus software that you like and it is doing well and updates at least once every 24 hours and has realtime protection, then just stay with it.

Kaspersky is a good AV as well, but considering it's free, I'd still go with Avast because it has the antimalware/antispyware components that the free version of Kaspersky offered by your bank does not include. You'd have to pay for a subscription to get all the other stuff.

[supermonkey]

thanks for that...

the version of kaspersky offered is http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/kaspersky_internet_security which i believe does include antimalware / antispyware.

avast is ok, but sometimes I feel it is slow. Since the suite offered by my bank includes a firewall too I wonder if my system may be improved (no longer run avast & zone alarm).

[2x3i5x]

yeah but however, is your bank offering the KAV for life? You'll have to pay for a subscription/key when it expires if you want to continue using it after it expires.

[supermonkey]

well they've renewed it the last few years, but i guess i will cross that bridge when i come to it

[smeezekitty]

I suggest staying away from Norton (personal experience: very slow and resource greedy).

i agree with that
norton takes processing power
and sometimes not even idle power too

[Helper4789]

McAfee.. However it slows down your computer if you don't have the correct mimimum requirements... AVG is the 2nd best.