I wasn’t going to write this today, but then I got really annoyed. On my work laptop I have McAfee, fair enough, not my choice, but you live with it, but today it really got to me, and made me realise how much it sucks! Not only do you have to purchase a subscription for every different service they provide – including what’s been bugging me for weeks, the subscription for the privacy service, which I don’t want anyway! – There is no option to tell it to get lost and not come back again either. Anyway, after I did my daily ‘remind me later’, afterwards it annoyed me even more with popping up with its own adverts for its products. I don’t want 20% off, I want it to go away, and they obviously know they are annoying their users because one option is “continue with what I was doing” – which is too damn accurate…

Ok, a few other bad points – It’s very resource hungry, I basically need a super computer to power it, when all it should be doing is checking for virus’s. Well I need not go on, for those reasons alone, its enough not to pick it.

Ok so what else is out there?

Well I’ll just stick to the main other choice, there are plenty more, but most of them are infested with spyware, yay!

Norton Antivirus – I’ll be honest, this used to be my choice of protection, but over the years, new versions have come out, and it’s become so hungry when essentially it doesn’t need to be. It’s basically identical now to McAfee, but has a different name.

Ok sure, both of these will pick up viruses as well as one another, and I guess thats important, but it’s also important to know they are not 100% perfect, and will miss some!

So then it leads on to my Antivirus of choice. AVG. It’s free for personal use, and its bloody brilliant. Now it updates, they release new versions and its not bloated with a hundred features you don’t need. It even gives you a preference to run it real time if you have a high powered machine or a setting for low spec PC’s, ah! Perfect!

Now it is free, and a lot of people will doubt its reliability, but I’ve been using it for 2 years with no problems, plus I’m far smarter than you.

When AVG first started, I wasn’t keen, and I did use it, it was totally naff, and you may as well not bothered, but I’m impressed how far it has come, and I would consider it for corporate use also.

As for you idiot users, don’t do what I see a good 80% of people do, is install 2 antiviruses, It doesn’t make you more protected, it makes you an idiot.

Wuup Team