bennymacca wrote:you pretty much get what you pay for - obviously the bigger ones like norton, mcafee and trend are going to be better than free ones.
NOT true at all.... But the commercial software vendors love people thinking this way
Most of the free ones, certainly AVG, are only free for non-commercial use. So the free version is usually exactly the same for a single PC user as the 'commercial' version... (commercial versions usually add a few features for multi computer environments)
Personally I have found the best free solution to be AVG antivirus (Clam is also good, but I personally havent used it) and Comodo Firewall.
Also using a malware scanner like SpyBot S&D regularly and another Comodo product called BOClean monitors for other malware in realtime (I also use BOClean)... Havent had any security problems in over 2 years with these products, and people I know (have PC-PC contact with) who use other solutions, some commercial, have been effected whereas I havent so it must be working!
I would NEVER pay for such software, in fact the ONLY software I HAVE paid for is Windoze... And I am not saying I pirate software, as a developer myself I wouldnt do this...
Open Source people.... Open Source, and the GPL (or LGPL)!!!! not that AVG or Comodo is open source, but there is a wealth of software out there that is, and often better than commercial offerings. Compare Sun's Open Office to Microsoft (macroslop) Office.... No contest considering one is free!
There are 2 other great free utilities, Advanced System Care and a Disk Defragmenter, from IOBit Software, which I find mandatory for keeping my windows 'bloat free'.... Get em and run em regularly
