+5 ESET I have eset on my machine and my daughter had mcaffee. Her msn sent me a URL or something suspicious. I may have even clicked it to sis it out. ESET blocked it cold. I immediately upgraged to a 5 machine license and put it on all our machines. Not has a problem since. I run it so it gives me the choice to allow or block like zonealarm as I like to know what's going on
(this time replied to the list....) On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Unicorn.Consulting < unicorn.consult...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18/03/2011 8:59 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > > Folks, after much web browsing, discussion and head-scratching about a > year ago I picked AVG free edition over the dozens of choices. It seemed to > have a good reputation and it didn't seem too intrusive. > > > > Since then, one friend with AVG free has had a machine infected 3 times, > another friend had 2 infections, and my wife's work machine got one hit. In > most cases I could go into safe mode, disable the infection registry entries > and then AVG would detect and clean the virus. One machine was so utterly > screwed twice that it had to be formatted each time. In all cases AVG was > disabled or deleted by the infection. > > > > AVG seems to be worse than useless, so I'm wondering what AV product people > here recommend for home PC use and satisfies the following specs: > > > > 1. It actually stops viruses (no kidding?!?) > > 2. It's not too intrusive in the UI (banners, popups, tray icons, context > menus, etc) > > 3. It doesn't have side-effects (degrades performance, conflicts with other > apps, etc) > > > > I reckon that asking for all of these things together is too much, but I > might find a compromise. > > > > Cheers, > > Greg > > ESSET would appear to be the winner with me. It is relatively expensive, > but does the job quietly and capably. > > Matt > > -- > “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary > Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Benjamin Franklin > >
