Best anti-virus program
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I used Norton for about 5 years and McAfee for about 3 years and then I discovered the FREE program Avast Basic. It's beaten Norton and McAfee in numerous tests. A lot of people swear by AVG Anti-Virus too, and that's also free. Both of these are easily as good as Norton/McAfee. They make their money by selling their professional versions to companies, and give away their free version to home users.
As well as having a good protection, you really want a good backup system in place too. I use Acronis TrueImage for making clone images of my entire hard drive. When the worst happens, you can just swap in the backup drive and you're up and running in a couple of minutes (minus whatever you installed/downloaded in the days since your last backup).
As I also use my main laptop for work, I'm using Microsoft Virtual PC and I have an XP VM that I run work stuff in. I simply backup the virtual hard drive of it every night onto a USB Flash drive. Takes about 15 minutes.
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I don't know about that eset one (I never heard of it or tried it) but the two I mentioned (Avast and AVG) are free only for home users. So commercially you're "meant to" get a multi-user license for your organization. Not doing so puts the employer/employees in a situation where they're all breaking the terms of an agreement that was clicked on and a dodgy legal position. I'm sure there are plenty that take that risk. The company I work for ensures we all have licenses for every single thing we use. The work's computers all run Computer Associates eTrust anti-virus.
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I don't know about that eset one (I never heard of it or tried it) but the two I mentioned (Avast and AVG) are free only for home users. So commercially you're "meant to" get a multi-user license for your organization. Not doing so puts the employer/employees in a situation where they're all breaking the terms of an agreement that was clicked on and a dodgy legal position. I'm sure there are plenty that take that risk. The company I work for ensures we all have licenses for every single thing we use. The work's computers all run Computer Associates eTrust anti-virus.
Exactly my point. I'd rather get clearance before installing a program like this.. always better to be safe than sorry!
I only know of one free antivirus that's been OK'ed for commercial use. It's called Comodo, and while it is a bit of a resource hog, it gets the job done.
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I don't know about that eset one (I never heard of it or tried it) but the two I mentioned (Avast and AVG) are free only for home users. So commercially you're "meant to" get a multi-user license for your organization. Not doing so puts the employer/employees in a situation where they're all breaking the terms of an agreement that was clicked on and a dodgy legal position. I'm sure there are plenty that take that risk. The company I work for ensures we all have licenses for every single thing we use. The work's computers all run Computer Associates eTrust anti-virus.
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in my opinion, best anti-virus is NO anti-virus. All these anti-viruses just make your computer slower. if you don't download exe. files from porn website, keep your pops up blocked and firewall on, you should be ok. I never use antivirus and all my computers are running fine. Once in a while I clean them up, and sometime reinstall OS. My wife's computer, however, is always slow and weird, with anti-virus. She always clicks yes on such things like "download new toolbar" etc.
I really don't think this heavy anti-virus programs are necessary
I really don't think this heavy anti-virus programs are necessary