having had 3 years of free subscription to McAfee as opposed to 7 years of AVG/Zonealarm

and being the 'technical bod' (ha ha) that is turned to when AVG/Zonealarm needs version updating by the in-laws and other family members i can.

i'll still recommend the free route though. neither AVG or Zonealarm* are difficult to install and maintain and my experience with McAfee is they like to try to sell things that are wholely unnecessary and i'm guessing part of that will also be contributing to the ?60

*Zonealarm has been getting more annoying with its nagging to upgrade to its paid for product so if anyone would like to suggest an alternative i'd be really quite happy :-)

Posted By: Ralf Scrampton on July 13th 2010 at 12:19:27

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Techy help please (General Chat) - green n yella beaver, Jul 13, 11:03:40
- Hang on - 60 quid sounds steep (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 13, 11:42:14
  - i hadnt updated my AVG out of sheer laziness - hence why they got in (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Jul 13, 11:48:37
    - Well, quite (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 13, 11:59:33
      - AVG also updates its virus definitions in the background automatically (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 13, 12:01:04
        
        But you get my general point though? (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 13, 12:08:06
        
        having had 3 years of free subscription to McAfee as opposed to 7 years of AVG/Zonealarm (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 13, 12:19:27
        
        So TM is incompetent then? (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 13, 12:04:29
  - ^^^ get zone alarm too (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 13, 11:48:13
- Yes (General Chat) - Johnny Comecardiff, Jul 13, 11:30:02
  - lol (General Chat) - pants, Jul 13, 11:40:30
- Avast is free too I think; but don't know how it compares to AVG (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Jul 13, 11:19:49
  - A little voice updates you (General Chat) - pants, Jul 13, 11:25:18
- yup just get AVG, then supplement it with Malware bytes and crap cleaner (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Jul 13, 11:07:46
  - Malware bytes has been a great help to me (General Chat) - KentonCanary, Jul 13, 12:02:55
  - might look at that malware bytes later. Ccleaner rocks (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Jul 13, 11:08:22
    - its v good. i got a v nasty trojan (General Chat) - Tony Martin, Jul 13, 11:12:33
- Still free that avg lark (General Chat) - pants, Jul 13, 11:06:37
- AVG is free and no sign ups needed (though they like you to click through a few hundered s (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Jul 13, 11:06:23

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