McAfee - Should I Pay For An Upgrade or Rely on AVG Free?

no need to pay for anti-virus programs.

You can obtain quite a few anti-virus removers/ programs for free.

I'm a big believer in open-source software.

AVG is free
clam-win is free
Avast is free
antidote is free
anti-virus personal edition classic is free
Norton corporate is free (for USA Federal employees)
and there are others

Most of these do provide free versions but please consider supporting the authors by donating to the cause or buying the software. Consider what the value is if they protect you from one trojan or virus!

Scott

I got rid of Norton Internet Security. It was working fine but using a lot of resources. I use AVG Free Edition + Sygate Firewall. It has been more than a month now. I spend most of my day on the computer and surf a lot. I don't have any problems or any suspicious thing going on my computer so far. Its also faster!

howard_hopkinso said:

IMHO I`d recommend to get rid of McAfee altogether, and run the Free AVG antivirus, and the free zonealarm firewall.

I think you`ll see a performance boost to your system.

Regards Howard

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Thanks, that sounds like a good Antivirus/firewall combo.

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MtnBiker said:

Most of these do provide free versions but please consider supporting the authors by donating to the cause or buying the software. Consider what the value is if they protect you from one trojan or virus!

Scott

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I think that sounds like a great idea. I'm quite willing to donate, after all they've helped me out in the past and besides the free software has helped me to detect just as many nasties as McAfee.