Norton, Kaspersky or McAfee?

[truckdiagnostics]

I was born a lived half of my life there. We used to love to hate Russians. Even most commies hated them because they had to kiss their a**es. Both Czech Republic and Slovakia rushed to NATO to isolate themselves from Russia as much as possible. So to say Avast or anything produced there is Russian is simply wrong.
In fact Kaspersky is Russian. I remember when the company started making antivirus about 20 or so years ago. They would give you scanning software that found lot of viruses that other antivirus "missed" on you computer. The truth was that all those viruses detection were fake making Kaspersky better than the rest. It eventually blew up in their face.

Apologize didn't mean to offend anyone. Yes, i understand the history behind USSR's relationship with Czech, and lumping the USSR and Russia together is wrong and I am showing my age. I am just a little peeved that, that area of the world seems to follow some unscrupulous business practices.

 

[KiotiKowboy]

Just curious if ANYONE runs PCMatic???

They run goofy low-budget TV commercials claiming to be the cat's meow.

 

[RalphVa]

I've had all 3. McAfee has gotten ridiculous at times, particularly in pestering you to renew. This new machine with Windows 10 has McAfee. Our internet provider gives us Norton free. When McAfee expires or if it gives me any trouble before, I'm deleting it and putting Norton in place.

Never had any trouble with Kaspersky. It was on my HP notebook when I bought it. When it expired, I went with Norton.

Any of these will give you potential trouble if you only have 4 GB of memory because they hog memory just lurking around. Ever since I went with 8 GB of memory on our computers, I've had no problems.

Even Avast and a couple of other free ones (yes, I tried them) will slow the computer down noticeably with only 4 GB of memory.

Ralph

 

[Coyote machine]

AVG. Used N and M years ago, a long time past. Haven't looked back. Running Win 7 home premium, from around 2010....

 

[aczlan]

Just curious if ANYONE runs PCMatic???
They run goofy low-budget TV commercials claiming to be the cat's meow.

JUNK. See: PC Matic: What's the good (or bad) word? - General Security
Amazon.com: IT_Architect "IT_Architect"'s review of PC Matic

Aaron Z

 

[masscity]

I'm not very good with computers and when I have a problem I call my Air Force buddy on Skype to help me. Every computer I've had didn't have enough RAM so when I bought this one I got 16 gb's. I have McAffee and it's ok I guess and never slows down my system.

Ed

 

[masscity]

I'm not very good with computers and when I have a problem I call my Air Force buddy on Skype to help me. Every computer I've had didn't have enough RAM so when I bought this one I got 16 gb's. I have McAffee and it's ok I guess and never slows down my system.

Ed