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　　At the moment I am using Win Live care for my 3PC network at home. When they turn it off in June I thought I'd better get some serious security. I have looked at Kaspersky and BitDefender. My 2 sons do a lot of gaming and the wife and I bank etc. online. I regularly have to clear viruses that the boys pick up and that are spotted by Livecare ( it was a special offer and an easy route to back-up and sharing) but having read plenty of negatives about Livecare I would not be suprised to find nasties somewhere.
All are running Vista or will be when I've finished building my next PC.
Anybody want to say which 1 is best?

If your pc's get their internet connection through a router that does not require the "Master" pc to be turned on. You could consider AVG Free for your Anti Virus and ZoneAlarm Free as your Firewall.
I use both of these programs on the pc's and Laptop I have here at home and have no problems. No dought though there will be other opinions found here as Internet security programs usually causes some debate

Last edited by driver_ian; 01-04-2009 at 07:49 PM..
Have a look at this post I made in a thread not too long ago. It outlines some of the more popular protection programs that are all free.

http://www.kiskav.com/anti-viru...tml#post314767

They are all VERY good programs. I recommend downloading them all. However, AVG is the only one that should run realtime protection as having two AV's running at once can cause issues

Thanks all I did have the AVG free and never had any probs but switched to Livecare for the back-ups etc. When they turn off Livecare I will most likely go back to AVG. What I would really love is for all these facilities to be wrapped up into one good bundle and not have to keep messing about with multiple progs. I am, basically you could call me lazy, but really want to spend time doing interesting things not mundane things. If only the creeps who enjoy ruining other peoples lives would go and live out their fantasies on a remote planet somewhere, we wouldn't need all this stuff. Sorry, ranting. I'll stop now.

Disabling scripts on websites will reduce the number of infections greatly. If your sons and yourselves can also remember to scan everything that you download before you open/execute it then you will have no virus alerts at all.

You can disable scripts in Firefox with the No Script Addon (google). Its a bit more difficult in IE but there is a browser called Avant which is the same as IE but has the option to disable scripts.

ESET NOD32 is the best antivirus IMO. Even so, if you follow the steps above an antivirus is redundant although still useful for the occasional times that your 'security routine' may slip up.

Feel free to continue the debate, but I shall mark as answered