Pc protection - Page 2 - Saxperience

AXracing · 18th February 2011, 13:03

I found the best way to protect your compute was to install Ubuntu. It is free and works superbly well. Better then most software you have to pay for. You can even burn it to a DVD or put it on a memory stick and just run it from there. That way you can try it before your decide if it is right for you or not and do a full install.

RustySkull · 18th February 2011, 13:38

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Originally Posted by AXracing

I found the best way to protect your compute was to install Ubuntu. It is free and works superbly well. Better then most software you have to pay for. You can even burn it to a DVD or put it on a memory stick and just run it from there. That way you can try it before your decide if it is right for you or not and do a full install.

I run Ubuntu, Win7 and XP.

Ubuntu is great but when it comes to running Windows programs Wine is a pain. So it's always good to duel boot so you can switch to Windows when you need to

Brenz · 19th February 2011, 23:10

Used MSE since it came out and never had any problems with it.

chinkostu · 23rd February 2011, 20:43

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Originally Posted by Mango_Wes

rofl. No.

never had a problem with AVG

Jam3s · 24th February 2011, 21:48

You guys need to get on Snoop Privacy, stops anyone print screening your screen with bank details etcccc. The best out there IMO.

But yeh McAfee Anti Virus is really good, I use that alottt.

WorthingSaxoVTR · 26th February 2011, 13:08

NHS uses Sophos or McAfee

do some research on google pleanty of antivirus reviews and tables form pc magazines etc

0rang3peel · 27th February 2011, 01:14

nod32 is the best imo.

but the best for free is probably avast, cc cleaner or spybot + a brain.

mlawlan69 · 27th February 2011, 01:16

AVG over multiple computers and to this day (touch wood) not had any problems

RustySkull · 27th February 2011, 09:57

I still don't know how you can tell if you have had any problems, because you don't know if you've been hacked until it's too late.

Hackers won't always hack you as soon as they get your details, some will wait for payday (Bank accounts) etc..

Pup · 28th February 2011, 17:21

I've been using Microsoft Security Essentials since a friend made me aware of it's existence. Not Microsoft fanboying, it just does it's job, keeps itself to itself and doesn't have any slow, clunky, image-laden GUI windows to groan over, nor does it feel the need to automatically integrate itself with Firefox.

Before that I was using AVG, which was also good, did it's job, but was annoyingly clunky to use and insisting on advertising stuff from Virgin Media everytime I opened it. :b