Everest or Freeware

[chunkylover53]

Can I make due with freeware, or is it worth it to buy Everest?

[Crisis Core 2.0]

I personally use Avast! Antivirus. It works really well for me.
http://www.avast.com/eng/download-avast-home.html

[The Wise Monkey]

I got McAffee Internet Security free with my Sky subscription, so I'm sorted for the moment. I use NOD32 on my laptop though, and that is an excellent program.

Loads of people use AVG, as it is free and also very good.

[chunkylover53]

What about for benchmarking your performance? Rob recommended a tool to benchmark his memory, but it is no longer free. My build is done, and I'm quite happy with it so far. But how do I know it's performing up to it's capacity?

[The Wise Monkey]

PCMark is quite a good tool - it comes with a free trial.

Here is a list of good tools:

http://www.pctechbytes.com/computer/article-51.html

[chunkylover53]

Thanks for the tip!

[The Wise Monkey]

No problem. :)