Antivirus/protection software for a pc

[Rocker]

At PCWorld I saw several Antivirus/protection software packages. What would you suggest I use? A single computer running Windows XP....

Thanks

[Modest]

http://www.avira.com/en/avira-free-antivirus
http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download
http://www.avg.com/us-en/buyav-ppc_1?ct ... on&wm_sd=1
http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/homeuser this one so far one of the best if you want to spend some $$
But free ones runs the same good all depends from the user :)
Cheers

[Ken Moreland]

Tom, I use AVG Free for 4 different PC's without any problem. http://free.avg.com/ie-en/free-antivirus-download .
You need to remove McAfee/ Norton or whatever first and then download and install AVG.
See ya Sunday.
KM

[DancingPriest]

I get by with AVG free.

But I hear great things about Microsoft Security Essentials

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/wind ... essentials

However if you want to spend money go for Kaspersky, IIRC it'srun by a few Russian guys who learned the trade from the other side of the fence.

Norton will probably degrade your performance more than the virus it's supposed to prevent.

[james]

I use McAfee but still I got a virus [called System Repair] ...

Here is a review site for free software http://www.techsupportalert.com/

and here is the section dealing with anti-virus

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-fr ... ftware.htm

By the way -- if you want anti-virus software PC-World often has sales ; otherwise try Amazon

[It is almost always cheaper to buy a new copy of the software than to upgrade an existing copy] ..

james

[Andy S]

Tom

I have one licence left on my 2012 McAfee antivirus package which you can have if you like?

Regards.

Andy

[Fran]

Avast and avg work excellently here over several years. I've had to uninstall Norton loads of times on machines it was such a memory hog.

[Sloop John B]

I use Microsoft security essentials, it's free and has worked for nearly 2 years now hassle free.
I had Zonealarm but that was becoming a huge system hog.

It's so much in microsofts interest that their antivirus works it's seems reasonable to presume it will be by far the best of the "free" options

[Rocker]

Tom, I use AVG Free for 4 different PC's without any problem. http://free.avg.com/ie-en/free-antivirus-download .
You need to remove McAfee/ Norton or whatever first and then download and install AVG.
See ya Sunday.
KM

Thanks lads for all the advice and offers. I installed the AVG Free as suggested by Ken Moreland, after uninstalling McAfee and it scanned my system - no problems found. I think my computer is responding a bit faster too. Great to know that so much good advice is to be got for the asking. Thanks again and well done.

[Rocker]

An interesting problem has popped up! When I load MS Outlook an information box/alert advises me that the McAfee Add on for Outlook is missing. I can press the OK button to proceed.

Anyone got any ideas where this Add on is located and how to disable the reference to it. It is not a serious problem but if it can be cleared easily, then I will do so.

Thanks.