Hey guys, i bought a laptop awhile back, and the norton internet security is about to run out, what would you suggest to buy. The norton 360 upgrade is 100 online.

what do you need it to do for you?

that will help you choose which product to buy or help you decide you don't need to buy anything.

Just internet really, like spyware im guessing, and a scan to check there is notthing goingin the background i guess, i think thats what i got now.

if that's all you are after then built in windows firewall & free versions of adaware and spybot.

avg and adaware is all you need

Nod32 + Spybot....

I used AVG for about 6 years happily however I really got sick of the update popups and false positives so I purchased for the 1st time in my life an antivirus product and have never looked back! I have no need for an outbound firewall since Im the only one who uses this computer and im not in the habbit of launching random exe's or downloading cracks/warez or any other random crapola.

and get rid of Internet Explorer. Use Firefox or Opera.

For all it's criticisms I think this is one thing that Windows Vista is good at. Out of the box, no real need for a third party net security app.

DO NOT GET NORTON 360!

Dad has always used the regular Norton on his computer and that resource hogging piece of s*** was bad enough... when he upgraded to 360 it just raped it.

Probably really good protection, but FFS it turned a half decent PC into something that was essentially f***ed in a matter of months.

good info there guys... What sort of security would you guys recommend for a large welding business??? we have 5 pc's in our office..

the same maybe?

For Anti Virus, get Kaspersky
Run Spyware Dr only when you want to run a scan, remove it after your done.

Think of it this way, if your a mechanic, you wouldn't walk around after you finished work holding a tool kit all day now would you?

Use Firefox or Opera

Nortons = Resource hog
Spyware Dr is becoming the same.

Spyware Dr & Trend Micro (depending on which versons respectively), can hang machines as they both access the same exclusion list (documented issue on Trend Micro's site). This may be resolved by now tho at the time I discovered the issue (Nov 07) they had no expected fix for it cept other than "Early 08"

all I use

Firefox
Spybot s&d
AVG home for anti virus.
windows firewall
a router.

all software is free.

i've not bothered with virus checkers for years. Personal PC who cares. If I have a spider sense that something fishy is goin on, just re-install xp. bam. cbf with the hassle of all that virus checkin shize