Does anyone bother paying for Anti-Virus ect now days?

Ron - I am determined to turn you into a successful speaker of english.  It's etc. ffs not ect as you keep posting. It's from the imported latin.

Two things you dope.

1. He's not speaking, he's typing.
2. If you're going to preach about the English language then at least phucking capitalise the word -English, as well as your own phucking username

You're an angry dwarf....aren't you?

^ (ref : Elf)

Ron, thought you above all would have the latest anti-islam protection installed

acquiesce12 in pheasant plucker mode again .

Never been worth paying for these. Miscosoft Security Essentials and Spybot-S&D are others to have.

I remember Norton, it was worse than a virus and as hard to get rid of.
In the early years everybody who was suckered into buying it had to format their hard drive after a while to get their computer to work gain.
I got it free with some other software I put in.

Any security system that takes over your computer will cause you trouble, and at best will only slow everything down. Avoid like the plague.

All I use is AVG Free and I even disable the browser toolbar on that.

I run SuperAntiSpyware free edition occasionally.

Very funny Crystal - Norton Anti Muslim security Suite

Yes Dr i used to run AVG Free but the last pc i got about a year back come
with w/defender which has anti-virus built in.

i think windows defender now is micro soft security essential SJ but for newer versions

ok m8

I pay for ESET nod32

This article reviews free AV software and recommends Avast over AVG - however there doesn't seem to be much between them.

http://www.alphr.com/security/6745/best-free-antivirus-of-2016-this-is-the-best-free-internet-security-software-you-can

Most articles on paid-for software always seem to rate Kaspersky highly.

It is worth checking with your bank to see if they offer free security software to customers (for example Barclays offer a 3 PC license of Kaspersky free to customers).

As previous posters have said, most people can happily get by using free software - HOWEVER, if you are the sort of person who is likely to visit "certain" types of websites (porn, P2P etc.) then you would be foolish not to pay a few quid for the extra protection that paid-for AV software offers.

Having said that I am sure that doesn't apply to anyone on here

I use ESET.

I Use Zone Alarm(Checkpoint)free anti-virus and spyware,
then when I am about to shutdown the Laptop,
I go Tools/Delete Browsing History,
Then
CCleaner Cleaner/Analyse/Run Cleaner
Then
adwcleaner Scan/Clean Browser

I also use Malwarebytes Free (Daily)

One Bitten - Twice Shy.

PMSL at that one.