System tools/anti-virus

[Guest morpheus2702]

My subscription to Norton Systemworks/Anti-Virus/Personal Firewall has just expired. The simplest option is just to renew, but I've been having a look at System Mechanic 5 and Systemsuite as alternatives to Norton.

Has anyone got any experience of using these, or recommendations? Cheers!

[Guest the_ugly_north]

Use AVG and Zonealarm. Both are free and AVG seems better than Norton (IMHO, I run both of them).

Send any money saved to help the victims of the Asia Earthquake

[Guest morpheus2702]

Thing is the system tools are as important to me as the anti-virus.

[Guest Vector]

I reccomemd AVG 7 Free aswell :(

As for system tools i'm not sure, but i use the xp sp2 firewall and spybot s&d for spyware :)

[Guest mike-oh]

I use McAfee antivirus, SP2 firewall along with NAT router firewall, and Spybot s&d and ad-aware for spyware.

McAfee seems pretty competent, unobtrusive, and just generally gets on with and keeps fairly quite about it unless you need to be told about something.

SP2 firewall and NAT seem a good combo!

And not much spyware can withstand the combined powers of spybot and adaware.

Happy new year,

Mike

[Guest gpcarreon (MVP)]

I use Ad-Aware SE - Kaspersky AntiHacker - Symantec Antivirus Corporate 9 - AVG AntiVirus 7 power combo...kinda overkill? Synergistic! :)

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

I always buy the OEM version of Norton system works from ebay can't complain for £16

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

pzee! Two AV's on one machine is generally a bad idea :) They either interfere with each other decreasing their effectiveness, or the combined efforts of the two trying to actively scan all accessed files slows your PC down by several orders of magnitude...