Evening ladies amd gents,

What are people using for Anti-virus, Spyware and Firewalls nowadays? I've just noticed i'm only running AVG Free. Should I be making more of an effort to be safe?

I use MS Security Essentials. It's actually really good and unintrusive.

As for Firewall, you don't need one if you have a decent NAT enabled router.

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on August 31, 2011, 18:58:38 PM
I use MS Security Essentials. It's actually really good and unintrusive.

As for Firewall, you don't need one if you have a decent NAT enabled router.

Ditto, the advantage of this over AVG is that AVG doesn't include spyware protection in the free version I believe? Not sure how they compare in operation but MSE has caught a few websites on my machine before, trying to do naught things!

Nice one chaps. I've just uninstalled AVG Free and swapped to MS Security Essentials. It asked me to turn on Windows Firewall so I said yes too.

Still open to further ideas however

Comodo Internet Security.
http://www.comodo.com/
Really impressed.

up untill about a year ago I'd never used any kind of background anitivirus/spyware.firewall at all....

I'd use one of those online firus scanners now and again if I had a problem....

but every background antivirus etc.. I'd ever used pissed me off messing settings up, or slowed my machine down...

but... I run MSE now too... and quite like it... can't even tell it's running and it's free :-)

Another MSE convert here too 

NOD32 is the only thing I've never had compatibility issues with, however I'll take a look at MSE given how highly people on here seem to rate it.

Quote from: Quixoticish on September 02, 2011, 13:22:29 PM
NOD32 is the only thing I've never had compatibility issues with, however I'll take a look at MSE given how highly people on here seem to rate it.

A 'new' virus infected one of the office computers some time ago and MSE was the only tool that would pick it up and bossman told everyone to install it and run a sweep, otherwise I never would have installed it as I used to never really run virus scanners. I'd never have realised how good it is if not for the strict instructions to get it installed.

ESET NOD 32 is the only AV that I will put my name too at the moment.  When I started ignoring brand named and started looking at independent analysis on system resources, viruses in the wild missed, heuristic detection, among other things, it became apparent their were much better products on the market than your old Norton 360's.

Interesting blog on Free or Fee from ESET themselves, even if it is from a biased standpoint.

http://blog.eset.com/2010/04/14/guest-blog-how-free-is-free-antivirus