Re: FAQ: Which virus/malware protection should I use?
I hope it's OK that I bumped this...the info in here is about 8 months old, so I didn't know if it could use an update.
Inspired by quite a few posts I've seen here over the last month slagging Norton and confirming my suspicions that it was a resource hog, I finally gave it the boot tonight after Ghost locked things up on me yet again. Surprise, surprise [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img], I'm enjoying what seems to be a considerable bump in computing speed.
So, now that I'm down to just Windows Firewall, what next? I want to be well-protected, but I also don't want to lose all that speed I just regained. I'd be surprised if I've had more than 2 or 3 incidents of a virus being caught by an anti-virus program in the last 10 years (and none getting through), nor have I had any adware for many years. Do I really need anything beyond Windows Firewall and AVG? Maybe Snoopfree if it isn't resource-intensive?
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