Protecting yourself from virus infection, malware, phishing schemes and who knows what kinds of threats are out there ganging up on your computer should be easy and without program bloat or creep – you know what I mean.
It’s that software product you bought years ago and every time you need to upgrade it, it takes more and more space and, even worse, slows things down.
Of course, antivirus software must be updated to work, and for years and years I used one of the biggie programs / services. The last couple of years I’ve been unhappy with them because I never knew what it was doing and sometimes it would try to add “features” I didn’t understand or didn’t want. I knew I needed something but didn’t know what to switch to.
I often catch at least part of the Leo Laporte show. He’s become my computer guy since the last one got rich and left town. Leo likes ESET NOD32 and when my subscription to the big guy’s service was close to ending I signed up.
It’s small, it’s fast and it works against malware and phishing as well as providing solid anti-virus protection.
This is another of those products I recommend heartily and use myself.
You can give it a try. It turns out ESET Antivirus, was the 2008 Consumer Digest “Best Buy“ I’m not surprised.
And yes, this is an affiliate link – if you buy through any of the links to ESET on this site I make a bit of money.
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How would you compare this anti virus software to AVGFree? That is what I use and I have had great success with it. Thanks!
James, AVGFree is better than no anti-virus and years ago I used their software. A tech I trusted suggested it might not be enough. So I can’t compare.
I don’t know how well AVG prevent malware which is, in my mind, an even bigger concern right now than viruses. I don’t want either and I trust Leo LaPorte… I’d used Norton’s for years but it was getting more and more expensive, offering more bells and whistles I didn’t want and starting to slow things down for me. NOD32 has been great… it updates itself with no fuss and briefly let’s me know it’s done so… runs totally in background other than that. And it shows no sign of slowing anything down.
Does that help? They have a free trial if you want to give it a whirl.
I had a failed installation of Norton about 7 years ago, and I’ll never, ever let any Norton product be installed on my machines. I got numerous error messages telling me to uninstall & reinstall Norton AV. I tried that again and again, but it wouldn’t uninstall 100%, and it wouldn’t install, either. They wanted a credit card number to use their help desk, which I didn’t want to give out. I found a patch program to help uninstall, but it didn’t work completely. I finally found a 3rd party patch that let me really uninstall the program. Needless to say, I never reinstalled it, once I succeeded in getting it off. It had already caused me more trouble than any virus I’ve encountered. I had major registry problems later that I attribute to the failed installation. I got a new system, eventually. I use Avira now, and I’ve used AVG, too.
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I’ve never had that sort of problem with Norton’s, but I’m sure glad to be shed of it.