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Originally Posted by Bert H  Question for you pc/internet experts out there. We had McAfee for about 3 years, (had to buy it regularly), and someone told me about the free avg product, which I now have installed. My question is, is it worth the $$ to keep purchasing McAfee, or is AVG good enough? This is kinda like the question of 'how much insurance is enough'? - hard to answer, but I would like to get some feelings from folks out there. Thanks. |
Don't waste your money and go with AVG. I have googled this subject to death and the consensus among those that have switched to free Anti-Virus programs like AVG and Avast claim that the free programs are just as good and some claim even better than Norton and McAfee Anti-Virus Programs. If you would rather place your trust in a commercial Anti-Virus Program, the consensus seems to be that you cannot beat Kapersky and N0D32 Anti-virus. There are also several free on-line anti-virus and anti-spyware program. For me the best option to virtually eliminate such threats is to go with a MacIntosh computer or create a dual boot Linux/Windows XP computer. Use Linux to surf the net and don't worry about updating and running a anti-virus program weekly and anti-spyware programs and boot into Windows XP to do your regular stuff. Linux is free. I have dedicated a whole page to safeguards you can take to protect your computer against such threats. It is full of useful information and resources. The web page was set up to provide information about the free internet hotspot I created in my building but I decided to add additional useful information about computer threats and security.
http://azdhan.googlepages.com/home
Regards.