01-01-2007, 07:00 AM
Hmm - good suggestions by others.. To add my 2GP worth. I use Trend Corporate edition, and it is fine. I believe that Trend PC-Cillin is OK too - but I'd avoid anything that sets up as a "Internet Security Suite" (including the Trend one) as they seem to be afflicted with bloat.
NAV used to be fine - but I agree with those that say that it is now a resource hog and a pain to uninstall. It seemed to become painful around the end of 2003, and that is when I converted to Trend (simple for me, as my company uses it wth a site license). I have installed AVG on a few computers for close family, and it seems to work well and clear stuff off fine (and I have had to use it in anger - so I have some confidence there). For those PC's I also use MS Windows Defender for spyware and the Windows Firewall. Not perfect, but usually good enough. There is no problem with using a hardware firewall and an OS firewall together. It works fine and gives few problems if the OS firewall is configured to open ports for games or sharing on the local LAN. I restrict holes to specific addresses on the local network (all my PC's use static addresses on a private class C network).
I have heard fairly nice things about NOD32 and Avast. But no experience there (I used NOD32 about 4 years ago - it worked fine then - but I haven't used it since).
There seems to be a big problem with a lot of AV suites with bloat. NAV and McAffee are 2 examples.
I agree with the use of Firefox. Our PC's use that as default and only use IE for updates. IE 7 shows some potential - but you will find that some software breaks (mainly LAN admin stuff.) I even stick to Firefox 2 on the Mac and Linux laptops.
Hope this helps,
HowGozit (relurking).
NAV used to be fine - but I agree with those that say that it is now a resource hog and a pain to uninstall. It seemed to become painful around the end of 2003, and that is when I converted to Trend (simple for me, as my company uses it wth a site license). I have installed AVG on a few computers for close family, and it seems to work well and clear stuff off fine (and I have had to use it in anger - so I have some confidence there). For those PC's I also use MS Windows Defender for spyware and the Windows Firewall. Not perfect, but usually good enough. There is no problem with using a hardware firewall and an OS firewall together. It works fine and gives few problems if the OS firewall is configured to open ports for games or sharing on the local LAN. I restrict holes to specific addresses on the local network (all my PC's use static addresses on a private class C network).
I have heard fairly nice things about NOD32 and Avast. But no experience there (I used NOD32 about 4 years ago - it worked fine then - but I haven't used it since).
There seems to be a big problem with a lot of AV suites with bloat. NAV and McAffee are 2 examples.
I agree with the use of Firefox. Our PC's use that as default and only use IE for updates. IE 7 shows some potential - but you will find that some software breaks (mainly LAN admin stuff.) I even stick to Firefox 2 on the Mac and Linux laptops.
Hope this helps,
HowGozit (relurking).