cavanami Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 Ohhhh, per http://www.matousec.com/projects/proactive-se curit... my free AVG is in the dirt, very poor rating. Some rating a "10" are free but I have never heard of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rookie Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 Ohhhh, per http://www.matousec.com/projects/proactive-se curit... my free AVG is in the dirt, very poor rating. Some rating a "10" are free but I have never heard of them Try Comodo...it's free {I like free!] and has been in the top rated group for a long time! I've been using it for years w/o any problems.......so far ;-) I only use Comodo's firewall and NOD-32 for anti-virus, but, I'd never use NOD's security suite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 AVG, free has been working OK for me on at least seven PCs. I also use AVG on two PC's with zero problems. I did, once, try one of these 'Suites' and all hell broke loose. The 'Suite' was asking me all sorts of questions - that I didn't have an answer for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soongmak Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 Used to use AVG but it let me down once so I switched to Avast about 3 years ago. Have not had a problem since. Free too. I quit AVG this fall after it could detect some malware but was not able to remove it. It also became nagware, always asking me to upgrade. Very annoying. That's when I tried out MSE, and I like it's clutter free interface, it's easy on the resources, doesn't nag, and I haven't had a problem yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamokhamok Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 Rookie, I use NOD 32 Smart Security 4 - is this what you're talking about. Have you had problems with it. I've used it for a number of years with no problems. Just wondering what your comments might be. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 I use Norton and about half an hour ago a message appeared on my laptop saying that I could download NIS 2010 and it would be free on my current subscription. So I did and it's currently doing a full system scan and has so far detected 30 risks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shygye Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 ... but how many of those are real? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Munchmaster Posted December 17, 2009 Report Share Posted December 17, 2009 30 tracking cookies was the final tally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted December 18, 2009 Report Share Posted December 18, 2009 I use Norton and about half an hour ago a message appeared on my laptop saying that I could download NIS 2010 and it would be free on my current subscription. So I did and it's currently doing a full system scan and has so far detected 30 risks. They offered me the same. But my guess is that the subcription (time) would remain the same. I purchased 2010 retail CD US $9.00 (have 2009 now) so that my subcription will continue for a full 12 months more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rookie Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Rookie,I use NOD 32 Smart Security 4 - is this what you're talking about. Have you had problems with it. ...... No, I've never used it. I suggest that you check the link that I posted which appears, in this thread, a few posts before yours. Check the various pages in the link and find out how the various programs were checked and what weaknesses were found. IMHO... Most of us have used various security or anti-viral programs and never _knowingly_ experienced a problem. The question is how good are they if our computers are ever hit by some new trojan, virus or in-genius hacker? Hence, I believe protecting with a top rated program will increase the chances of warding off the attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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