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Just wondered what people thought is the best anti-virus kit out there. I had a scare this morning and thats driven me to buy a package and I wondered what people thought is the best kit to get.

Looked at Norton 2004 all-in-one (anti-virus, spam, firewall etc.) and that looks a good option for the price... Thoughts?

I like Norton Anti-Virus. It and McAfee are about the same in terms of quality, effectiveness and ease of use. Go with whichever one you prefer.

Personally - I use the Internet Security from Norton/Symantec (version 2003 at the moment, will upgrade 2005 comes out)

Just some advice. Don't use their spam filter. There are plenty, better spam filters out on the market for free. I find the spam-filter in Norton Internet Security to be about as usefull as setting up e-mail rules in Outlook/Outlook Express. However, I know there is a better Norton Spamfilter, then the one included in Norton Internet Security 2003, but I don't know if that is needed to be purcahsed on its own (a friend of mine has something).
Personally though - I've fallen "in love" with the spamfilter called "K9", and it suits me excellent. (a free e-mail proxy that scans quite fast and well).

Secondly, I've only ever had 1 problem with Norton Internet Security, and that is descripe in another thread of mine here at the techy forum. But basically - I've had to disable the "Auto Protect Feature" which continuesly scans file activity on your harddrive for suspecisous files (So if you add a file to the harddrive, it scans it withouth you knowing, the same if you copy, alter etc...) But I've been unable to run games using Direct3D and this Auto protect.

Then there are all the rest features - but I think the features are pretty much the same as McAfee.

But personally - I still like Nortons products and will stick with them for a good while yet (unless I get a good offer on McAfee), but I doubt the difference is so great between the internet security suites from Norton and McAfee. It is a matter of preference, and currently my preference is Norton.

But do as HLD suggest, choose what you prefer.

Taking advice from you two, its going to be Norton. I've always trusted Symantec, so Norton it is.

Thanks for the help guys (I'll look at "K9" Xan, see whats it about. )

Cheers chaps.

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Thanks for the help guys (I'll look at "K9" Xan, see whats it about. )
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It would take quite a lot for me to change from K9 now
I have run it over a periode of 160 days, and according to the log it is 99.9% accurate after sorting 34,000 e-mails
(it would in reality likely be a little less accuracy, but no lower then 99.7/99.8% - but that is only due to my own lazyness of not bothering to "teach" it proberly in regards of my gamebanshee e-mail account. ).

K9 can be found at this url: http://www.keir.net/k9.html