Protection?

[nochee]

I bought a new laptop a month or so ago and it came with Norton antivirus already installed with a free trial. Anyway that free trial is now coming to an end and i either need to pay to renew it for a year or i get something free from the web.

Any reccomendations?

[Sippo]

avg

[@MacPhlea]

avg - agreed

[Samdy Gray]

AVG for anti-virus and PC Tools Firewall for.. well... firewall.

[nochee]

Is the free avg enough? I see there are 2 other versions with better specs.

All i use the net for is general web browsing and movie/music downloading.

Thanks

[Simon Pieman]

http://thetownend.com/index.php/topic,33606.0.html

[Batch]

AVG slows down my computer because its so old. Other than that it works fine. Just be careful with the damned link (URL)  checker setting.

If you are going for a commercial prog then Kaspersky internet security 2009 is about £13 for a 3 PC (year long license) at Amazon.

[BANGKOK RED]

And there's me thinking this was a thread about condoms.

[oxford_fan]

Rubber up lads.

is Avast! any good? my avg messed up a while ago so i got the mos t popular alternative. seems to work fine so far.

[Simon Pieman]

I think so.

My AVG stopped auto updating but I manually downloaded the new version and it's been fine ever since. Happened on two computers.

[oxford_fan]

yeah same here, except when i got the new version it did the same again.

after a good few months running and speaking to me in american, avast has just kicked in and done something for the first time.

i was told to get onto this site

http://www.dialang.org/

to test my proficiency in german for some pgce stuff, but it seems there's malware or something associated with it? even if i ignore the warning google seem to block me.