My free 90 day subscription to Norton Internet Security is running out. You know the free trial they give you when you buy a new lap top. My question. Is it worth renewing? Do, I really need it to protect from viruses?
When I first got my computer it had Norton's on it. That said recently my computer was ate by a worm, turns out Norton's wasn't worth the money I had been paying to renew it. When I took it in to have my hard drive clean I was advised to get Kaspersky Internet Security. My cousin who is my computer guy told me it was the best available.
I almost forgot ClamWin Anti-virus. It's free and it's not a resource hog.
I'm not certain, but clamwin has to be manually invoked to scan, some of the others can be automated to periodically perform a scan ?
Free Antivirus for Windows - Open source GPL virus scanner
"Please note that ClamWin Free Antivirus does not include an on-access real-time scanner. You need to manually scan a file in order to detect a virus or spyware."