Latest advice on Internet Security options please.

[Sp!ke]

The whole reason why all of these antivirus companies even exist is because Microsoft have been unable to protect its OS's.

If they were any good at protecting your PC from nasties the OS wouldnt need third party apps at all it would be built into the operating system.

I have the misfortune to have to manage a whole load of client PC's. We test, evaluate, brutalise and generally put products like this through their mill because if they work - hell, we can save ourselves a ton of money in client licenses that we need not purchase anymore.

Fact is, Essentials doesnt cut the mustard... not by a long way.

 

[tpwuk]

The whole reason why all of these antivirus companies even exist is because Microsoft have been unable to protect its OS's.

If they were any good at protecting your PC from nasties the OS wouldnt need third party apps at all it would be built into the operating system.

I have the misfortune to have to manage a whole load of client PC's. We test, evaluate, brutalise and generally put products like this through their mill because if they work - hell, we can save ourselves a ton of money in client licenses that we need not purchase anymore.

Fact is, Essentials doesnt cut the mustard... not by a long way.

MSE is a consumer product. It isn't suitable for SME's or larger because it can't be centrally managed....yet! Penny pinching with security in a commercial environment is professional suicide!

MSE more than cuts the mustard for most home users.

 

[tpwuk]

Kespersky no good then?

I've got it running on my two desktop too. (Barclays give three licences.)
Fine on them, but really slowed old laptop down. (But then that only had 256 MB RAM.)

To be honest, I don't have any issues with it on the desktops.
You don't recomended it then?

No, it's rubbish. Seriously, get MSE, install it and forget about it.

 

[EVL124]

Norton Internet security is quite good now, they did a major re-vamp in 2009 and cut all the bloat out (and boy was there a lot of bloat) I have had 2009,10, and now using 2011 and would highly reccomend. Installs in under a minute, and uses virtually no resources at idle and when background scanning.

 

[BTB 500]

MSE works fine for me.

Had Norton 2009 before that, which let a couple of trojans in.

Running the new Trend Micro Titanium on the kids' PC (to get parental controls etc. as well), which seems OK. Allegedly uses cloud technology to reduce the footprint on the PC.

 

[crockers]

No, it's rubbish. t.

On what basis do you state this?