Deals on new Internet Security Suites

[ahhaa]

There are suddenly deals on nearly all the major Interenet Security offerings- there is the choice between 2006 & 2007 engines, 3 user packs & then there's MS One Care.

Over the years I've tried Norton, McAfee, and Trend; not overly pleased with any, mostly due to the fact that I'm stuck on rural dial-up, which means any 'time off' from the net means an hour or so of updating.

There seem to be all sorts of finicky details, such as having just tried to d/l the MS OneCare trial, their own certificate failed and then MS said I must be running IE6 to do the install (sure they're not a coercive monopoly )

I know about all the free AVGs & Zone Alarms, but cost isn't my only object- the 3 user deal would be nice for once having the same suite on my machines...

So what would you guys advise?

I've got a week or so before the Trend on my ME laptop expires... times flies when you're having fun

[Barnabas]

Of the software you mentioned, only Trend has not crashed my computers. Software companies don't even seem to consider that anyone still uses dialup. I used to use Zone, but starting last year, the updates caused nothing but problems.

I live out in a rural area too, and used to use DirecPC, now called Direcway I think. DSL finally got here fortunately, but I had a high-speed Internet connection from day 1 out here due to satellite. You might want to look into it.

[kschang]

If you're on dial-up, just install a software firewall and AVG and keep the anti-spyware stuff and the rest updated. You don't really need a suite, as you are not priority target for hackers due to lack of bandwidth.

Right now I run Sygate Personal Firewall, Norton AV 2005 (w/ update) and AdAware plus Spybot. One of these days I may even get rid of Norton and replace it w/ AVG, as I've yet to see a single virus in four years of computing. But then I'm very picky in what I download.

[ahhaa]

Yeah. its prob'ly only rural users that've noticed how net-addicted computers have become; just when the net has become a jungle.

& Yeah, all the waitstate I've been thru & manual scans... never yet actually found any virus!

[Poppa_Meth]

I'd try Avast. Updates aren't nearly as big as most. It just seems to download what it needs not a whole package at a time. Only program updates are large.