What Internet secrity & anti-spyware suites are you using?

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As the title says...

I am using Norton internet security 2010 and I am thinking of putting spyware doctor on.

Is it any good and do you think it's worth it?

Thanks
 
Norton's consumer products like that have never been good and tie up resources instead.

Throw it away and use a better resident shield such as AVAST v5. You don't need dedicated internet security, your firewall and AV package will cover these areas anyway.
 
Um..for me, windows 7 firewall, MSE (giving it a go after years using AVG) and Spybot.

With regard to spyware doctor, if you don't have an anti-spyware program, then you'll get more out of having it on than not having it. Spybot would get my personal recommendation but..some may disagree :)

(I wouldnt use Norton suites myself tbh, got over them years back after they took up most of my memory and cpu resources..)
 
Avast 5.0 here and liking it very much. I ran Avast 4.8 and 5.0 is much improved.

I also run Superantispyware manually to get rid of any nasties that are well dug in.

That said, I haven't had any malware on my systems for years so Avast and my pickiness for being secure must be paying off. :cool:
 
AVAS does look very good.

The new norton products do no use much resources as the ones they had yeats back and my system has been running good with it taking up minimal resources.

So I guess Norton are learning :)

I curretly have a few months subscription left on norton then I will try out AVAST

I am going to get an anti spyware app just to make sure everything is nice and clean
 
MSE - does what it says on the tin and not had a problem since I've used it (pre-beta) I used to do some offline virus checking with other products (Symantec / Sophos) to check that it was fine, since not having any problems since installation I don't do 3rd party checking now - seems a very good product for nothing.


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Kaspersky Internet security 2010 :)

Ive been thru most of them and Kasperskys tops and avira close 2nd
the rest are ok but let the bugs thru, thats my basis anyhow since I run healthchecks daily for past 6 years at work so see all the latest bugs!

Kaspersky 2010 is a memory/resource hog, even on a dual core pc can struggle a tad seems to love quads though and 4gig :)

If you are really paranoid malwarebytes and superantispyware as backup programs also.
 
Win7 firewall, nat router and MSE, and malwarebytes run now and then :)
Used nod and kaspersky a lot aswell but went for a free one this time.
 
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