Virus Software

my sub for norton antivirus is up for renewal soon and i'm cross with it making my computer slow.

if i let it lapse and instal AVG free edition instead will i be okay?

any advice appreciated.

Buy AVG. It costs less than Norton, and runs faster.

Once, AVG failed to remove a trojan that it found on my computer. Fortunately, I'm also running McAfee.

AVG is fine.

I use it with spywareblaster (also free) available from

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/

and spybot (also free) available from

http://www.kolla.de/

Can't you just download the updates from Symantec for free manually anyways? Thats what I do but.. I'm using the main program from my work., so not sure if that could be the difference.. is it you won't get the def files anymore? or the problem will nag and not work anymore

I would just use McAfee. I would also recomend getting a firewall. that is what I have and I never have a problem and I am always connected to the internet.

Originally posted by adramforall
AVG is fine.

I use it with spywareblaster (also free) available from

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/

and spybot (also free) available from

http://www.kolla.de/

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Same here.

Also, you can do online virus scans free as well, eg Trendmicro or Panda.

One thing, I would remove Norton stuff completely first before running another AV program.

Originally posted by murrow
my sub for norton antivirus is up for renewal soon and i'm cross with it making my computer slow.

if i let it lapse and instal AVG free edition instead will i be okay?

any advice appreciated.