AV Software

I get Norton for a paltry few dollars courtesy of using it at work, but it seemed to be slowing processor intensive aplications down. My wife does a lot of craft stuff with photoshop and that was worst.

I installed the free version of AVG and it's a lot better.

Cheers Keith

[Lissa]

Used AVG free edition on our old pc and was so impressed we have it on this new one. I also have MacAfee security suite. So far, so good

found the link for the free AVG

Run Norton internet security on mine, was renewal time last month. Had a look at subscription on Symantec's site, 40 quid. Pc world.. 25 quid for the same thing? Bought the new one from the shop!

Wouldnt touch Norton at all, dangerous sw which deletes perfectly good files or stuff that is needed to run other apps.

+1 for Avast! for me, excellent sw works in background and doesnt give me any scares. Finds trojans and stuff no bother. Free!!!

What about Kasperspy??

Nobody wanna tell me what Kasperspy is like?

[timwilky]

I used to use Kaspersky for my linux systems, It was good. I used it within a filter for postfix to scan all incoming mail. From memory, it score high it the tests

Originally Posted by phil24_7

I need new anti virus software. What's the best one to get?
What ya recommend?

OS X or Linux

Kaspersky is good, as is Panda (at detecting viruses & spyware). I had a right 'mare with Panda 2007 on an XPSP2B box, runs ok on Win2K though. I like Mcaffee & I ran Norton for years, I don't like AVG or any free antivirus, you get what you *don't* pay for.
Even running an antivirus you should also do online scans like Pandas active (they also do a total scan), Kasperskys (although that will, quite handily, recognise some spyware as viruses) & Trend, etc. A second opinion is always good, especially on any suspicious files you might have downloaded or if you notice any suspicious listening/open ports (shell>netstat -a).

HTH