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Title: internet security advice please Post by: Arriba on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 14:11:32 i know this has done before so apologies for that.
my norton subscription runs out tommorow and i dont really want to shell out any dosh. is there a decent free anti virus programme available(avg or something?) or should i just pay for the norton?i do a fair bit of online shopping and dont want any virus attacks ect any advice would be most welcome ta! Title: internet security advice please Post by: Sippo on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 15:41:27 http://free.grisoft.com
AVG antivirus and spyware. Title: internet security advice please Post by: Fred Elliot on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 15:42:26 AVG is good but sometimes conflicts with my BB
I use anti - vir and I have a major problem with it at the moment where I cannot remove a trojan, so probably not the best one to recommend. I would plump for AVG being probably best of the free ones Title: internet security advice please Post by: sonic youth on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 16:55:07 avoid symantec/norton like the plague, there are better and cheaper options out there.
AVG is good but basic, i recommend NOD32 (http://www.eset.com/). you can't just rely on anti-virus software, make sure you use something like ad-aware, ccleaner or s&d spybot Title: internet security advice please Post by: pumbaa on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 17:02:10 Quote from: "sonic youth" avoid symantec/norton like the plague, there are better and cheaper options out there. AVG is good but basic, i recommend NOD32 (http://www.eset.com/). you can't just rely on anti-virus software, make sure you use something like ad-aware, ccleaner or s&d spybot I use AVG, never had a problem, to date. I use all the other three that sonic suggests as well. All free. Title: internet security advice please Post by: Arriba on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 17:04:52 i already use windows defender for spyware.would this and avg be enough?
Title: internet security advice please Post by: sonic youth on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 17:05:50 windows defender is shite. you really ought to use a third party piece of software as well.
Title: internet security advice please Post by: Fred Elliot on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 17:06:23 Quote from: "arriba" i already use windows defender for spyware.would this and avg be enough? windows defenders a little basic, lets quite a few malicious programs through *cough cough*................trying to remove an Agent trojan as we speak Title: internet security advice please Post by: Arriba on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 17:24:47 what about protecting from email attacks?does avg cover this?
i'm downloading it now Title: internet security advice please Post by: sonic youth on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 17:26:37 not sure, it should...it wouldn't be worth a jot if it didn't.
i know NOD32 scans all incoming and outgoing email. Title: internet security advice please Post by: Arriba on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 17:27:41 cheers for that
Title: internet security advice please Post by: jayohaitchenn on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 17:29:02 AVG does include a pop3 mail scanner, so yes.
Title: internet security advice please Post by: Simon Pieman on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 19:36:45 I use Zonealarm and it seems to do the trick, although only the firewall version is free unless you know how to get hold of the full version without paying.
Title: internet security advice please Post by: BANGKOK RED on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 19:46:13 I have been using NOD 32 for 2 1/2 3 years now, and (Touch wood) I have not had the slightest problem yet.
Title: internet security advice please Post by: axs on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 22:47:25 i use Avast and never have any problems, and its legally free with auto-updating.
Title: internet security advice please Post by: magic8ball on Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 00:35:36 I use something called QuickHeal, and it really is splendid.
Title: internet security advice please Post by: Peter Venkman on Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 08:27:06 mmm never heard of quickheal, it appears to be Indian? a bit expensive at $52 but very interesting.
I swear by what a lot of people dont...I always instaall Norton Internet Security 2007, which includes all virus protection, anti spam etc and from the right sources can be bought for as littl as £10 for a year and thats a licence for up to 3 different PC's. I have never ever had a virus attck me with it installed and only experienced 2 viruses on PC's I have had support for out of well over 100 installations and that was because they deactived the guard! Title: internet security advice please Post by: magicroundabout on Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 10:17:10 i use Kaspersky. Extremely good and doesn't slow your system down like McCrapy does.
http://www.kaspersky.co.uk/ Chose Kaspersky as it runs in 64bit edition of windows too. well happy with it Title: internet security advice please Post by: magic8ball on Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 10:27:11 Quote from: "jjedmunds" mmm never heard of quickheal, it appears to be Indian? a bit expensive at $52 but very interesting. I swear by what a lot of people dont...I always instaall Norton Internet Security 2007, which includes all virus protection, anti spam etc and from the right sources can be bought for as littl as £10 for a year and thats a licence for up to 3 different PC's. I have never ever had a virus attck me with it installed and only experienced 2 viruses on PC's I have had support for out of well over 100 installations and that was because they deactived the guard! I got it free from download.com, and everybody knows that Indians do loads of stuff best, like curries. Title: internet security advice please Post by: Peter Venkman on Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 10:28:42 Quote from: "magic8ball" Quote from: "jjedmunds" mmm never heard of quickheal, it appears to be Indian? a bit expensive at $52 but very interesting. I swear by what a lot of people dont...I always instaall Norton Internet Security 2007, which includes all virus protection, anti spam etc and from the right sources can be bought for as littl as £10 for a year and thats a licence for up to 3 different PC's. I have never ever had a virus attck me with it installed and only experienced 2 viruses on PC's I have had support for out of well over 100 installations and that was because they deactived the guard! I got it free from download.com, and everybody knows that Indians do loads of stuff best, like curries. Call centres? :? :soapy tit wank: |