Which is the best? Edit:Please Read

McAfee.  It does a better job than Norton, and Symnatec (Norton) is incredibly to uninstall if you need to get rid of it.

PS.  Are you wanting Security after what happened with msn? 

mcafee
i find norton unimpressive and would never recommended to anyone
i am unsure how good mcAfee is but is alot better than norton

^^^ I agree.

I'd recommend Avira though. AVG just doesn't jive. It's only €20 for a year!

Best regards,
Vulcan.

I use the free version of AVG. Have been for four years now. Never had any problem. The big boys are viruses in themselves and hog resources IMO.

RossUK1 wrote: NOD32 is the best, I have had Norton, McAfee, and Avast.  Norton resource hungry and a pain to uninstall and not the best protection.  Kaspersky was my last program and very good, but converted to NOD32 and found the best.

Agreed. In the past 3 years I've had McAfee and Norton protected systems, but for 18 months now have solely used NOD32.

MartinW wrote: Mad to pay in my view when AVG is good and free.

I figure that if I pay, then if something goes wrong I have a bit more comeback as it were with a company I've paid to protect my computer. Peace of mind, if you like.

MartinW wrote: Magic Man wrote: Neither, both bloated and heavy on resources. Nothing wrong with a free offering from AVG or AVAST for your situation.   Spot on, I use AVG, excellent, no need to pay for anything.   Magic’s right, if you want to slow your system down with bloated rubbish go ahead.   Keep your OS up to date with the security fixes, use a good hardware firewall courtesy of your router, I have the windows firewall on as well, and that’s all you need, apart from a spyware killer.

Well ever since last night my internet has been playing up.

Take the security off again and try it.

Wireless can still be unreliable, even now. It's partially the companies trying to be "the best" all the time, but failing, and partially the technology itself is rubbish.

Find a good "g" router without all the fancy acceleration rubbish etc.. and use that.

If the standards designers could make 56 Mbps "g" run faster than 54 Mbps, they would have. I haven't found a single "faster than g" (or whatever) product run reliably.

I've got a supposed top-of-the-line 'N' router, with associated card, but that damn thing doesn't run at all for more than about 2 minutes. I get hardware error when I try and ping the access point, but when I run the same equipment on "g" it is out of this world! I can get a signal at the bottom of the garden like that!

I think the major culprit is that they've used the 802.11n draft spec. Uhh - it's "draft" for a reason (I got it to test it - you don't know if you don't try, do you?).

Best regards,
Vulcan.

VulcanB2 wrote: Well ever since last night my internet has been playing up. Take the security off again and try it. Wireless can still be unreliable, even now. It's partially the companies trying to be "the best" all the time, but failing, and partially the technology itself is rubbish. Find a good "g" router without all the fancy acceleration rubbish etc.. and use that. If the standards designers could make 56 Mbps "g" run faster than 54 Mbps, they would have. I haven't found a single "faster than g" (or whatever) product run reliably. I've got a supposed top-of-the-line 'N' router, with associated card, but that damn thing doesn't run at all for more than about 2 minutes. I get hardware error when I try and ping the access point, but when I run the same equipment on "g" it is out of this world! I can get a signal at the bottom of the garden like that! I think the major culprit is that they've used the 802.11n draft spec. Uhh - it's "draft" for a reason (I got it to test it - you don't know if you don't try, do you?). Best regards, Vulcan.

Well Vulcan. i did take the security off and guess what,,, its gone back to being fast again. But its seems now my router is easy for anyone who wants to steal my internet and use it like its some sort of free internet.
 
Well the router im ment to have is top of the range £130. I'll take your word for it and find a ''G'' router as the 1 i have now will be quite useless if i cant have security as well as speed. i take it Netgear do ''G'' routers vulcan if so where can i get one? if so the top of the range?